You see, these things kind of puzzle me. I was flirting with this hot chick - a consultant that sometimes works for us. She initiated some of that. Her bit of work is now finished here, but she bothered to contact me after, to ask stuff like "who won at bowling" (my team were on a bowling night a few days ago) and to tell me how funny some comedian she saw the other day was. Not to mention, when we were out drinking after work she would laugh at my stupid jokes. Even my colleagues joked about it "she must like you if she laughs at that crap" LOL. Anyway, as another piece of work she was supposed to do in a few weeks time is now cancelled, I thought I won't wait until she'll be back god knows when... So I kept exchanging emails with her and asked her telephone number. She gives me that. Now, I read this like a green light - sort of. So I phoned her and asked her out. She is telling me she has a boyfriend. What on Earth?! Anyhow, we made a few jokes about it and left it to that - still in friendly terms - you imagine some awkwardness can appear at this point.
I keep thinking maybe I can't read these things, but logically, think I was right, I went through the "right" moves... if there's such a thing...

So, m@verick I say go for it - what's the worst that can happen? LOL. I would have regretted it not to ask her out...