<human>: Often I see questions like this submitted and the general consensus is to go to clubs, take a class, just basically surround yourself with people.  
  
I feel like I can do that, and I can talk to people and stuff, but I can never seem to get to that 'friendship' level. I mean a lot of the people I've met in these things would definitely say hello to me if they saw me at the mall or on the street, but it's more like a "yeah that's Brad from so-and-so" rather than an actual friend.  
  
So let's say YOU join a club and you're basically an outsider. After the hello's and seeing them a few times how do you go further without coming across as creepy? I mean inviting someone for lunch or something just sounds really weird to me, some might think you're trying to date them. And it's not like I could invite some people to 'hang out with my friends', because I really don't have any.  
  
What would you do? What do you suggest?

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<bot>: How do you make friends in clubs/classes and not just the 'hi/hello' type, but an actual friendship?