I will share the story of what happened at the gym last night.

There is this girl I see often there who appears to be from my ethnic group, and I had noticed her looking in my direction a few times and realized I think she's pretty cute. So I was in this all purpose room by myself doing my workouts, when that girl came in with another girl. As they were doing their workouts, I overheard the girl telling the other girl stuff about her culture, which I am from as well. That was one of those situations where I get very confused as to whether I should butt into the conversation. One one hand, we are from the same culture and she is talking about, at this point it would be unfriendly to not say anything right? But on the same token, isn't it also kind of weird sometimes for a random guy to butt into a girl's conversation? But anyways, at some point the girl asked me if it would be ok with me if they put on some music, and I said it's fine. But also in their conversation it appeared to me that the girl I had my eye on was training the other one, so for some reason I thought maybe she works there. So I asked her if she works there. She looked at me awkwardly and replied "No..." That's when the OTHER girl says "I do..I work at the front desk." Then I looked at her and realized she was the girl that I always see at the front desk and who is always really nice to me for some reason. Basically I didn't recognize her. I probably looked so dumb. But anyways the whole question about whether she works there was meant as an excuse to talk to her, and I pretended that I intended to ask her about whether they moved from equipment. But I followed it up with asking the girl if she was from my ethnic group. Turns out she isn't, but is from a somewhat similar group. And basically the conversation ended there.

Hope that gives a little better insight into how I operate and how I mess up.