It's very common overseas, so maybe the person who did it was brought up in a very different culture than ours. Over in Malaysia, I've encounter some foreigners doing this towards me before. The first time I experience this, I was quite scared as it was late at night, so I just walk away, completely ignoring the guy.

There was once in Thailand. Me and my friend (both of us girls) were waiting for the bus and a guy approach us. He was with his guy friend as well and said they were tourists too. He introduced himself and gave us his card and we found out we were going to the same destination. They helped us to carry our bags and we had a pretty good chat with them. The day ended quite well and they did not do anything funny. He also owns a motel in Boracay (they were Philippine chinese from Boracay) and invited us to stay at their hotel if we ever go there for holiday in the future. Guess there are still people out there who just wants to be friends, or maybe he just wanna advertise his hotel.

I believe they just want to be friends. Just like on LYN, there are guys who will randomly msg girls and chit chat. Of course there are guys that have a certain motive behind it but not all are like that. There are some nice guys around that just want to expand their social circle. It's nice to find someone that you can click with. But yea, jumping out of no where and asking so many questions is very creepy.

If you ask me, majority of the guys that ask you out are because they are obviously interested in you.

Some guys are generally more friendly. I know a guy at the bank I frequent and he is really friendly with me, much more usual than the normal friendly customer service someone will give. I just have small chats with him everytime I see him but that's about all.

Married doesn't mean you have to wear a ring. If people ask about the ring, just say you don't like to wear one.

As for travelling, honestly, if I was alone, I wouldn't dare to speak or hang out with strangers as well. Even when we were hanging out with the 2 guys, we did speak among ourselves to watch out for anything suspicious.