It can be hard to know when someone is trying to get your digits or fend off the ever-looming threat of litigation. Take our quiz to see if you can tell the difference: flirting or accommodations?
In an exam room for grad students getting extra time, the proctor, a woman your age, shows you to your seat with a big smile, touches your arm and gives you a wink.
Accommodations: This is condescension. She has basically decided she’s your mom.
A handyman installs grab bars throughout your house to help you navigate more comfortably.
Flirting: His craft is his love language.
A fireman sweeps you off your feet and out of a burning building. As he holds you in his arms, his golden hair flows in the wind, and his eyes look right into yours.
Accommodations: He had to do this. Your wheelchair is fully on fire.
You’re out to dinner with a colleague, and they notice you are having difficulty grasping the nachos. They start feeding you.
Flirting: They have that fetish where they like plumping you up, big boy.
On your wedding day, a strong man comes up behind you and zips up your wedding dress. He whispers, “Are you ready?” in your ear.
Accommodations: Your wedding planner has something you don’t — arms. You are also 15 minutes behind schedule, and he is panicked. Hurry up, gorl!
Someone says, clearly and directly, “I am flirting with you. Will you go out with me?”
Accommodations: Your neurodivergent ass wasn’t going to understand their intentions otherwise.
A friendly bartender brings you a portable access ramp, provides free drinks and makes out with you.
Accommodations: A lawyer has been suing local businesses that don’t have permanent access ramps. You’re being bought off. But if you mention you saw the 1-800-RampLaw billboard, you might get to smash!
You are checking into a hotel. When the concierge notices the elevator is broken, they invite you to spend the night at their apartment.
Neither: This is what we in the serial killer business call “a trap.”