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dragonlady7OK I seem to never have the damn time to update this despite all the crap going on. Interesting things? Maybe not. Whatever.
Instead I present to you an open thread, on the following topic:
A friend of mine recently ended a relationship of about 10 years. She's back on the dating scene. She's a witty, intelligent, fairly nerdy, attractive and funny woman of 29, the only woman in her office.
As such she's getting a lot of somewhat-unwanted attention. Slightly-creepy geek boys are coming out of the woodwork now that she's back On The Market. Complicating factor, of course, is that after the loss of such a long-term relationship, she's at a bit of a loose end socially as well, since the person in question was her best friend for the majority of her life.
So she's trying to make herself socially accessible, and make more of an effort to get out, but is conflicted over how to turn down friends who she wants to keep as friends but who really want to date her and do not accept her simple statements that really, she'd rather just be friends with them.
She recently asked for some nice terrible excuses to give one of these prospects who is not taking hints, when he asks her on dates.
So far Z and I have come up with a few good ones, so I'll start the ball rolling. How do you repel unwanted romantic propositions? The more humorously pathetic the excuse, the better. (Remember, we're trying to give unsubtle hints without actually being mean.)
* I've got to burp my Tupperware.
* I have to stay home and watch TV. [if pressed:] The Pocket Fisherman infomercial.
* According to the Egyptian calendar, the world is ending that day and I have to stay home and freshen up before meeting Isis.
* My car is lonely so I was going to just spend the evening with it. We need some quality time.
* I'm allergic. (Don't specify to what.)
* I need to check the goods in my pantry for their expiration dates. Did you know half of one percent of premature deaths in America are caused by expired baking soda?
Amusingly, or not, this somewhat ties in with a relatively serious blog entry I'll probably never have time to make, but whatever. I'll get to it when I'm retired.
Update:
We have a provisional winner, from the comment thread on the f-locked original post on her journal, courtesy of Z:
* I'd love to but it's Tommy Lee's birthday [true!] and I want to commemorate it by watching the Pamela Anderson Lee Sex Tape. Alone.
Come on folks, I know one of you can top that.
Or, at least, can rival it. ;)
Instead I present to you an open thread, on the following topic:
A friend of mine recently ended a relationship of about 10 years. She's back on the dating scene. She's a witty, intelligent, fairly nerdy, attractive and funny woman of 29, the only woman in her office.
As such she's getting a lot of somewhat-unwanted attention. Slightly-creepy geek boys are coming out of the woodwork now that she's back On The Market. Complicating factor, of course, is that after the loss of such a long-term relationship, she's at a bit of a loose end socially as well, since the person in question was her best friend for the majority of her life.
So she's trying to make herself socially accessible, and make more of an effort to get out, but is conflicted over how to turn down friends who she wants to keep as friends but who really want to date her and do not accept her simple statements that really, she'd rather just be friends with them.
She recently asked for some nice terrible excuses to give one of these prospects who is not taking hints, when he asks her on dates.
So far Z and I have come up with a few good ones, so I'll start the ball rolling. How do you repel unwanted romantic propositions? The more humorously pathetic the excuse, the better. (Remember, we're trying to give unsubtle hints without actually being mean.)
* I've got to burp my Tupperware.
* I have to stay home and watch TV. [if pressed:] The Pocket Fisherman infomercial.
* According to the Egyptian calendar, the world is ending that day and I have to stay home and freshen up before meeting Isis.
* My car is lonely so I was going to just spend the evening with it. We need some quality time.
* I'm allergic. (Don't specify to what.)
* I need to check the goods in my pantry for their expiration dates. Did you know half of one percent of premature deaths in America are caused by expired baking soda?
Amusingly, or not, this somewhat ties in with a relatively serious blog entry I'll probably never have time to make, but whatever. I'll get to it when I'm retired.
Update:
We have a provisional winner, from the comment thread on the f-locked original post on her journal, courtesy of Z:
* I'd love to but it's Tommy Lee's birthday [true!] and I want to commemorate it by watching the Pamela Anderson Lee Sex Tape. Alone.
Come on folks, I know one of you can top that.
Or, at least, can rival it. ;)
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Date: 2007-10-03 06:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-03 06:51 pm (UTC)Unfortunately it doesn't work if this is an already-friend-type-person, but she could pretend to be spontaneously struck blind and deaf. That'd be a good one for a better actor.
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Date: 2007-10-03 06:55 pm (UTC)Took him a minute to process. Luckily, I didn't much care whether he stayed an acquaintance or not, and he turned out to have a sense of humour. He answered by asking "well, then I suppose inviting you up to see my etchings wouldn't work either?"
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Date: 2007-10-03 07:25 pm (UTC)I'd forgotten how ballsy you are...
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Date: 2007-10-03 07:34 pm (UTC)Well, yeah, I'm reasonably take-no-prisoners by nature, but this one didn't require being ballsy. It just required me wanting him to knock it off and nothing short of a cluebat to the side of his skull was going to get the job done.
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Date: 2007-10-03 06:51 pm (UTC)I have to go put on a purple leotard and fight crime. [If pressed:] OK, you got me. It's not crime, per se. It's mildew.
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Date: 2007-10-04 03:56 am (UTC)