The subway and Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connections are perfect together. This week, we noted that there were 56 subway Missed Connections in Brooklyn, so we settled on a Brooklyn post that raises a vital New York City Missed Connection question: How do you talk to a female on the subway? (The same could pertain, we suppose to females talking to men.)

What’s the best way to talk to a girl on the subway? – m4w – 25

Girls, your perspectives please:

On the subway, you make eye contact a couple times, enough so it’s totally clear you’re interested or curious or aware of each other’s existence in the world–that is, enough to make a guy see it as worth the effort of approaching you. So what’s the best thing for him to say?

“What are you listening to/reading?” (obviously only works if you are listening to an iPod or reading a book or whatever…)

“What’s your name?” (argh, so blatant)

“Hey, does this train stop at _____?” (so weak)

“I like your earrings/shirt/boots/whatever.” (again, so blatant)

“Do I know you from somewhere?” (bold, a little strange)

Some witty, random comment about something in the immediate surroundings…

Thoughts?

An interesting dilemma, and to judge by the volume of weekly Missed Connections on the train, a conundrum indeed.