"Can I know you?" "Will you be my friend?" "I think I've fallen in love with you" are all selfish, short-sighted, things to say that force the other person to do all the work of figuring out the relationship you're trying to establish.
— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) November 28, 2017
bunch of guys seem to get hung up on the “how do you ask a friend out on a date that isn’t just hanging out”