Is this the worst way to ask someone out for a date? Receptionist, 23, blasts divorced father-of-two, 56, after he stops her on the street to hand her a 'creepy' love letter
Receptionist Clarice, 23, was stood on the street when a man pulled up in his car
He handed her an envelope addressed to a 'beautiful girl' before driving off
The letter said she was the most 'gorgeous and sexiest girl' he had ever seen
Clarice thinks he might have been watching her and changed her route to work
By Stephanie Linning for MailOnline
A 23-year-old receptionist claimed she has been forced to change her route to work after she was stopped on the street by a middle-aged man who handed her a 'creepy' love letter.
Clarice, who did not want to give her surname, was waiting near her Nottingham home when the man pulled up in a car and gave her an envelope addressed to a 'beautiful girl', saying someone had asked him to give it to her.
In the typed letter he called her the most 'gorgeous, beautiful and sexiest girl' he had 'ever set eyes upon' and asked her out for a drink.
Approached: Receptionist Clarice, 23, was left shaken after she was stopped on the street on her way to work by a middle-aged man who handed her a 'creepy' love letter
The note: The man pulled up in his car and gave her an envelope addressed to 'a beautiful girl' before driving away. Clarice said she feared the man had been tracking her morning routine
THE 'CREEPY' LOVE LETTER IN FULL
Hi my dear, I am so sorry I needed to approach you in this way as I didn't know how else to go about it.
You are without doubt the most Gorgeous, Beautiful and Sexiest girl I have ever set my eyes upon. Your dress sense is immaculate and you oose star qualities [sic].
I feel that I if I [sic] didn't take this opportunity I would regret this for the rest of my life.
I would like to take you out for dinner or for drink, at any venue of your choice, and if you are still not interested then I completely understand. As they say Nothing Ventured nothing gained [sic].
'The worst thing that will happen is you get a free meal and have a damn good laugh. We can then depart on good terms and then I can say I once took out the loveliest pretty girl in Nottingham for tea.
Finally, I understand if you do not want to get in touch and I will not contact you again.
All the best in anticipation, Chris
While Clarice was initially flattered by the gesture she later found the man on social media and discovered he was a 56-year-old divorced father-of-two who lives some 30 minutes away.
She now believes he has been watching her make her way to work every morning and has chosen a different route for fear of bumping into him.
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Clarice said: 'I'm just hoping now that I don't see him anywhere in the future. I'll be finding a different place to get picked up in the morning.'
Clarice said she was initially left 'in shock' when the man handed her the letter.
'When he'd driven off I opened it then realised it was actually the man who handed it to me,' she said.
'It's weird because I've never seen this man in my life and I wait in the same place every day to get my lift to work.'
In the letter, the man said she 'oozes star quality' and asked her for a date, saying if he didn't he would 'regret it for the rest of his life'.
Through Facebook, Claire and her friends were able to track the man down.
She said: 'He actually lives half an hour away from here so I don't know why he was in the area. He'd come the complete opposite way.
'It was really strange. I've not contacted him and I definitely won't be doing in the future. On his Facebook, it says he's 56, has two young children and is recently divorced.
'He was in a nice car and I'll be looking out for it. I think he's probably having a bit of a midlife crisis. Surely he could see that I'm way too young. He's old enough to be my dad.'
The office worker said while the man might have meant it as a 'sweet' gesture, it actually came across as creepy.
'Creepy': Clarice said the middle-aged man was old enough to be her father
She said: 'I understand he must have been shy but that's not how you should approach someone if you like them.
'It's not the first time I've had people approach me in strange situations but I think most girls have. Things like cat-calling and stuff happen a lot.
'I've had it quite a lot. Every girl has at least experienced it once. If you like a girl, go talk to her. Be friendly, ask her out, get to know her, just don't be creepy about it.'
Nottingham receptionist was handed 'creepy' note by man