get me out of the friend zone

I'm one of those women whose list of friends are mostly men. I just find, having gone to an all-girls elementary and most of HS, that men are just easier to be friends with. No drama. No fuss. No non-sense. Just friendship and great relationships.

I do keep some great gal pals though. Mostly confined within one family (the Hardy girls), Cara, and Noey. I can't really think of any more. I do know more girls than that but they lie on the fringe and not at all part of the tight circle.

Having said that, I'm pretty good at being friends with guys. I know the unwritten codes per se. I get the jokes and the antics. Problem comes if I meet a guy with whom I'm interested in and I am clueless.

Do I act the same way? If I don't, what the heck am I suppose to be doing? How do I, a perfectly attractive woman, become more than just a friend to a man I'm interested in? Which makes me wonder, having only the experience of being a "friend" to guys, will having mostly male friends doom me to be forever stuck in the friend zone?

My guess would be no but with my lack of boyfriends to date, as in romantic relationships, would prove me otherwise. So tell me, anyone, how does one avoid being stashed into the friend zone, and if you find yourself in it, how do you get out? I'm not at all concerned about my old guy friends, its the ones I meet I need to figure out ... especially the ones I'm interested in.

Hmm, is my knowledge about being a girl friend a way for me to take cover from possible rejection? I guess if I were not of interest to be more than just a friend, there could never be any rejection . . . if ever there's any, it would be for friendship and that's just wrong. Everybody loves me as a friend. =) Or maybe not. ha!

But who knows. I just need to know what's the difference? 1) to get me out of trouble; 2) so I won't look like a schmuck when I like a guy; and 3) avoid digging myself into the friend hole -zone ...whatever you call it.