But when a Chinese student posted a message at college saying she wanted a boyfriend, they came in their droves.
Instead of looking down from her balcony on a romantic scene as her potential suitor waited below, Zhang Mengqian was confronted with a huge mob.
Thousands of bachelors descended on the campus of University of Electronic Science and Technology in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, after she put her plea on a message board.
The gathering came after the university, which has a ration of 25 male students to every female, declared a 'girls' day'.
Each female student was handed a blank card and told to write their wish on it.
All the cards were then posted on a 'wish wall'.
Zhang wrote: 'My name is Zhang Mengqian, a grade one student, and I think I am attractive, but strangely I can't find a boyfriend. However I believe in destiny.
'If you have the same wish, please come under my dormitory building and shout for my name between 12:30 and 12:50 on March 11, 2010 and I will observe you secretly up on the building.'
She added: 'If you're my type, I'll come down to meet you.'
Word soon spread and by noon of March 11, swarms of male students were outside the dormitory building.
But only a few completed the second part of the task - to shout out her name.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the huge crowd, Zhang did not descend from her room.
Hello boys: Crowd of men went to Chinese student Zhang Mengqian's dorm building after she posted a message about wanting a boyfriend. |
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