You all get the early Christmas present of me joining this forum

Unfortunately I have to say that I am one of those lucky cases who are 18 years old, still a virgin, never had a girlfriend and never even kissed a girl (although I'm still relatively young of course, but let's face it, something should have happened by now). It's absolutely amazing that I have succeeded in this, and I suppose that I have just been such an ultimate coward that nothing has happened. I have had plenty of opportunities during the last four years, but I've managed to make nothing out of them.

Girl running up to me three times a week when I'm home from school, wants to talk to me, catch her looking at me all the time? Check.

A different girl doing the same thing? Check.

A girl all of a sudden, totally unexpectedly telling me, after I approached her in school out of the blue and getting along with her well that "she doesn't think guys should be afraid of telling a girl they're interested"? (Indirect approach, you guys seem to call it - and I hadn't even brought up relationships in general or anything...) Check. (HOW DID I SCREW THIS UP. Well, never made a move, you see I was "playing it cool" and suddenly she got a lot colder after around two months of knowing her. The United Republics of AFC calling...)

A girl constantly checking me out telling me it'd be cool to go swimming sometime although we'd never hung out together (i.e. "I'd like to get half naked in front of you if you don't mind")? Check.

All of this has taken place, all of these make me gringe in perspective when I think about the blown opportunities, in all of these situations it was just me and the girl. These are merely examples, too, four of these doesn't even... it's... it's just ridiculous how many chances I've blown. The point is that nothing ever happened with any of these girls. Or any girl for that matter. How did I succeed in blowing these? It's absolutely mind boggling. I've just... I've just either not known what the hell I'm doing, or been too afraid to proceed or whatever. But yeah, nothing.

I'm around 5'6, honestly not good looking (maybe not 'ugly' but I'm not good looking) and apparently even starting to slowly go bald (at EIGHTEEN - talk about a genetic jackpot ). I don't really care about these things THAT much though, and I know that I have the stuff in me to make teh ladyez go wild and all that, but I just haven't been able to get it going so far. I have "confidence", as in I approach girls I don't know etc., it's just that I do it too rarely. I always do an "indirect approach", too, and they have almost always worked fairly well, but yeah, I've just never escalated before. I've always had these ridiculous assumptions of having to be good friends with a girl first or her clearly showing she's interested in maaany ways before asking her out or "She probably still doesn't like me though" or you get the point.

I'd like to imagine that I need just one more of the type of examples I've mentioned above and it's on. Finally, I'll know what to do. Until that, during that and after that, I've joined your ranks, as I've gained a great deal of knowledge already from reading these here forums.