So I (30F) am new to a city where I am currently in nursing school. Today I was getting my hair cut and the stylist (who is also a lesbian) was just making conversation and asking a lot of questions. I told her that I am in the middle of a career pivot and after some back and forth she asked if “I was by myself out here” and then “are you single and do you date?”. I didn’t expect to be asked that and also didn’t want to be a creep, so I just responded that I was mainly focusing on my ABSN program in order to switch careers.
If someone asks you a question like that unprompted, is it an indication of interest? I am not a blindly optimistic person and like to think of myself as practical; my default position right now is that my single brain is trying to create meaning out of a casual conversation where none exists.
I feel that hair stylists are usually talkative and extroverted types (at least she seemed to be). For all I know they may throw these questions at clients all the time just to keep conversation going. But I am also wondering if I may have missed yet another basic social cue. What do other women here think? Is it routine for women to ask questions like these in this setting?