12/13 So I called this girl and she told me something that was
very different than the other girls-- kind, unambiguous,
yet effective. She told me that she was very busy feeding
her goldfish and she couldn't go out with me. Now I'm wondering
what some of the cool rejection lines you losers have to share?
\_ Tell her to go fuck herself. If she can't give you an honest
answer, she's a total bitch.
\_ Laurie Anderson had an idea to turn Gravity's Rainbow into an
opera; she asked Thomas Pynchon for the rights, and he told her
she could do it on one condition: the only musical instrument
allowed would be the banjo. -tom
\_ She missed an awesome oppertunity.
\_ "You're too good for me."
\_ what does this mean?
\_ you're not good enough for her.
\_ Not a dating thing, but while I was on my mission, a guy told
me he was "too busy to meet us." He was watching people play
starcraft on TV at the time. -jrleek
\_ the only good missionaries are the female ones that enjoy
the missionary position.
\_ No offense, jrleek, but unless I'm truly bored and aching for a
theological fight, I will always be too busy to meet with
missionaries.
\_ On my mission I actually shook hands and thanked people who
simply told me "not interested" instead of giving a lame
excuse, giving me a time when they wouldn't be home, or simply
not answering the door when I arrived when they asked me to.
-emarkp
\_ it is my right to give you a lame excuse if i don't
want to talk to you. i'm sure missionaries have
thick skins or they wont be missionaries for very long.
\_ "It's my right to lie because you're used to being
lied to." -GWB
\_ I wish all missionaries were that polite. I've actually
had to close the door on a couple guys on their mission
because they wouldn't leave after the 3rd time I told them
'not interested' -- in very polite and clear terms. It's
people like that that make it so much easier to be rude
using the dodges you mention rather than risk having to be
even ruder by just closing the door in midsentence.
\_ Yes, I think anyone going door-to-door (which I actually
did very rarely) needs to be extremely polite, and then
people answering the door need to be honest, and then
brutally honest if necessary. -emarkp
\_ No, you don't want to meet with missionaries. Which is
fine, if you don't want to meet with me, I don't want to
meet with you. I don't get off on wasting my time. It's
just funny to claim you're "too busy" while watching
StarCraft on TV. -jrleek
\_ Hey what channel is StarCraft on TV? I'd totally want to
watch that. I think I've flaked on my friends bc I was
busy watching the crazy knife selling guy on QVC.
\_ It's a Korean thing. They have pro-StarCraft
players and a cable channel dedicated to playing
video games. (Which is most StarCraft, at least it
was when I was there 2 years ago, and the Koreans
are still into StarCradt AFAIK) -jrleek
\_ I first read that not as a typo, but as a joke on the
way a lot of asians pronounce 'Sta-Ku-Raf'
\_ When they come to my door, I usually tell them to get lost
in no uncertain terms, and demand that they never come to
my door again. If they question, I tell them *exactly*
where they can stick the whole concept of organized
religion. Which do you prefer?
\_ But you can learn good positions from missionaries.
\_ "I'm already dating your other girlfriend." |