RE: How NOT to Behave on a Blind Date
From some of my friends that I considered assholes yet they seemed to always have dates, and yes they were not exactly in the attractive corner either... I can tell you in their case it was alcohol. I didn't drink alcohol then and don't drink it now, but one of them ended up being one of my roommates (there were four of us) in college. Of the four of us he was the only one that drank.
He had a game he had created with another friend (I consider them Dogs based upon how they act) of his that I don't know.
They would go to parties and see who could get slapped first by something they said.
It usually was tasteless things such as "Do you want to fuck, or should I apologize." He would talk about this grinning and I'd just slap my head or be shaking it as I stared at the floor.
He used to talk about the one night he was really happy with his victory. His line that got him slapped was "I love every bone in your body, especially mine." Now I wasn't there for ANY of these events, yet he was the type that liked to tell these tales fairly frequently.
Now why do I bring this up. Honestly he brought women home far more often than anyone else in that house. The rest of us didn't drink. We were more guarded, self conscientious, and shy at the time. Oh and one of us was still in the closet (not me). This was a long time ago.
Yet your entire piece made me remember that awkward foot and mouth people seem to be able to have relationships (yes, he did end up having one long term girl friend he met this way) but it seems in his case to have required alcohol and parties as an icebreaker.
So it is not a method I would particularly recommend. Now I do want to say he was a nice guy. His pickup lines and lewdness were probably he worst flaw. Yet somehow he made it work.
I myself never used pickup lines. I was myself, and said what I wanted to say. I was a little shy, but other than that I was fine. It must have worked out okay as I have six kids, and some grand kids.
Thank you anyway for making me sad for you, but laughing and shaking my head at the same time. That icebreaker of a line you used reminded me a great deal of this college roommate.
Oh yeah, he has been a parent and married for a long time too. I haven't spoken to him (just paths not crossed) in more than a decade, but last I spoke to him he was married and doing quite well.
That guy (your college mate) was a chaser. Chaser often have more .. uhhmm.. victims, than regular people who are careful and considering. Same thing as in other aspects of life... Nice story, loved it.
I didn't know a label... When it came to women I simply thought he was a Dog, a dick, an asshole, and a jerk.
haha those are some good lines, but i've heard of them before
I don't ever use memorized lines, except the ones that pop into my head and come out of my mouth before I even realize they were out
ya i'm probably fairly similar to your friend, can be lewd on the outside but really just quite introverted
I don't do great with girls, but if i'm honest I sort of enjoy not being great with them, it amuses me a little, I sort of feel that I observe my life rather than experience it sometimes
Back before web pages took off there were a few interesting things people would eventually find on college computers around the world on the early text only internet.
One of those was called the purity test. You would take that and it would ask you all kinds of things basically HAVE YOU DONE this and at the end it would give you a % of how pure you are. What usually happened is people would use it as something to inspire them with new things to try, and they actually tended to try to lower their purity scores.
Another thing you could find was the Cannonical list of pickup lines which had tons of crazy ones like that. They were never my thing either. I've never used a pickup line. I did laugh my ass off reading them though.
Both of those things are likely still all over the place on the internet, I didn't actually go search for them. I just am recounting memories.