Do you use your natural appeal to get things you want?

[DishLady]

Sometimes I'll notice that someone is doing something nice for me because of the way I look. I don't have to ask or anything, there's just a nice gesture and I express my thanks and that's basically the end of it. However, I have a friend who knows he's attractive and is always using that to appeal for things (at a bank, at a store, at the office, etc.) -- and women fall for it every time!

So... have you ever used your physical appeal to get what you want?

Updates

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Those gestures and actions are considered “appealing” … or perhaps swap “appealing” out with “personable” or “charismatic” or “charming”… Connecting with someone for a moment just to have a smoother interaction, to ask for a bit of help on a day you need it, that sort of thing. One of my friends back home calls it “micro-expressions” because it’s reflex for some people.

[ryanrhino]

I don't have natural appeal, but I do have what I feel is earned respect for advice, either encyclopedic, work terminology or relationship (having been divorced, re-married and "re-dadded").

[TommyMountainFigure]

I'm not 100% certain how to answer this, because although I don't use my physique to get what I want, I have intervened before to prevent fights or stop people from getting beaten up.

[Nikki1989]

Never intentionally, but it has happened many times.

[Knightwatch27]

Not intentionally that I can recall. Maybe it happens without me thinking about it, I dunno. But I don't really find need for it often, people are usually very nice towards me anyway.

[DishLady]

I mean, I think it happens to anyone who lives in a more rural area. I’ll see someone I know and smile… the smile then prompts one from them… and perhaps from there a kind word or gesture etc. It’s not necessarily a premeditated thing.

[Knightwatch27]

Well sure but what does that have to do with "getting what you want with your appeal"?

[NathanDavis]

at the bank and the store... I use money

they don't accept charm

[spartan55]

I don't know if that would work with me.

[DishLady]

Haha. I suspect it does.

[spartan55]

You are too kind.

[serious]

The answer is No.

[Tstrbrainer]

I'm not sure it's gonna work