On why I don't understand men at all
by So I'm driving down the turnpike alone in bumper-to-bumper traffic trying to conserve gas by having my a/c off and the windows down.
Why does this guy sitting with three other guys, not two, THREE, in the front seat of a pickup feel the need to tell me about what's going on in his pants? Not just his pants, but also his friend’s pants. Cute guy btw - which may have been my fault for slightly smiling beneath my sunglasses before he opened his mouth. What type of reaction does he expect to such a comment? What I did was try to maneuver away from them and wound up getting off at the next rest stop.
I get the most atrocious comments from guys. I am considering making a public service announcement: “If you see this girl, please leave her alone.” I try to think this really more about male bonding and less about me, but it really bothers me. In the past, other guys have helped me out by supplying snappy comebacks. In the midst of my shock, I can’t think of anything to say myself. Even days later I can’t think of anything to say. So what’s a girl to do? Wear earplugs and a burka? Never travel without male company? Just toughen up and loose the wide eyed innocence?
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I for one have NEVER yelled things out the window at girls on the parkway, but on the other hand, ive had more than one car full of girls yell things out the window and do obscene gestures to me while driving.... sooo i dunno... i think it may just be the world in general... and Pat... probably.
yeah, i was hoping not to run into this guy at the convention i was headed to.
I have never EVER yelled out the window at a woman or even honked my horn. However I don't know how you confused me with a carload of girls that one time i was chasing you on the highway..
personally, ive always thought patrick was a gentleman. have i missed something? do tell.
haha, this cracked me up... on the streets of Atlantic City which is pretty gross and there's some really weird people .. i have heard some very strange comments, to which I really just wonder, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?? Do these men think that you're just going to throw yourself into their arms haha it's just so funny. Yeah beeping your horn works well too. oh baby oh baby
* yeah my advice is to just ignore it haha
yeah ive pretty much come to the conclusion that in the impersonal from the car honking, they arent expecting a favorable response. i try to ignore that. although sometimes it infuriates me, like last week, i was crossing the street with my grandmothers cane and this guy tied up traffic to make sure i knew he appreciated my looks. i wanted to throttle him for getting in my way.
yeah i think they do. they think you'll automatically think they're romantic and fall helplessly in love and you're thinking "EWWWW stalker perv" - LOL
once, i admit, i did yell something. ok, actually, i yell pretty frequently. but it's usally along the lines of "hey who stole the bottom half of that skirt? I'm gonna beat up whoever it is for you!"
very kind of you. presenting superhero: champion of mini-skirted females everywhere!
Hey what did they say.
do you drive a tractor trailer or something?
what are you talking about. i drive a Subaru WRX.
then there's no way you can see a girl's skirt in another car.
truck driver.
LOL this TOTALLY has happened to me. i hate it when they stare. what i've learned if you stare back, with a blank look, they get all uncomfortable and look away.
when i'm driving on the freeway, many a time, i'll get locked in by the freak next to me cause he's staring and thinks i'm going to be all "oh he's staring at me, i'm in love" when in reality i'm thinking, "CREEEP if i had a rock i'd throw it between your eyes"
i can go on and on about these freaks!
ive tried staring back but i was told that my mean look appears like a seductive challenging look. maybe i should just keep a rock handy, eh?
not even a mean look, just "what are you saying" look and its SO funny
but yeah i'm all for the rocks!
oh i get it! like they are speaking a different language. i do that when guys talk to me in spanish. i pretend i cant understand what they are saying. it usually works out pretty well. that sounds like an excellent plan!
how about the guys in hackensack that suck the air through their teeth? HATE that
you look so good i will slurp you up like spaghetti! yes, i am familiar with these men.
okay i totally know what you are saying on every level.
First off if this is the way that guys think they are going to get girls, well let's just say that is why he is the car with ONLY guys.
Last week I was on the Parkway and this guy drove up to next to, actually scared me cause he swerved right next to me... and then started talking to me out of his passenger window. I yelled "what is wrong with you" and he got mad at ME! He yelled "I'm was just trying to introduce myself..."
its this kind of logic that i cant understand. please allow me to introduce myself by causing an accident.
eyah lets exchange personal information... insurance carriers and medical companies first.
prepare comebacks!! I'll give you three, 1)in your dreams 2)not from where i'm standing and 3)I'm gotti's niece. I mean these are just beginners, but they will apply to most lines..
and these will work?
seems like you have some practice in being hit on but dirty men. thanks for the tips.
I was following my boyfriend's car and we were stopped at a light. I was stopped next to a car with three or four later-twenties spanish guys. It took a while to get my attention but when I finally looked at them (very confused) they asked me in very broken english where I was going and if I needed something to do. I just smiled kind of confused-like and was like "I'm following them" pointing to the car infront of me. I always lose my mind in such situations. If I could have thought I would have said "No I do not need something NOR someONE to do, thank you"
yo you're cute and my other buddies wanted me to talk to you... why did you ignore me.. whatever.. next time.. you're mine gadget
"men are really idiots. and there's only one thing we know. we want women. how do we get them? we dont' know. honking horns and shouting from construction sites....these are just the best ideas we've come up with."--jerry seinfield
and they kind of lean back as if your hotness knocked them over a little (for the jew: lean back lean back)
Some guys are stupid. In instances where one is being stupid to me, I use the opportunity to be as mean as I've ever wanted to be - you know all that anger from everything frustrating that's ever happened to you? Take it out on that guy, cuz really, who cares? You don't know him and you'll never see him again. Be mean. Try to make 'em cry. It's the only way they'll learn.
Hey girls do the same thing
its just not in us to stalker stare or make LAME comments
three cheers for that comment. WE are way more subtle and cool about it. That's y guys never know that we like them. lol.
yeah but guys don't usually complain and women aren't crude when they do it..
I have seen it and everytime I am like wow shes throwing herself at him
One line i like to use myself is hey nice unibrow
o my lord, summer's on ezabel..THIS, is a sign, of the last days
ha ha, oh geez, there are so many things i will do to make them go, what?
1) usually first thing i say . I'm married. especially if they are staring me down and turn around as I walk by & say stuff, some guys will say they are married back and which I'll reply sucks to be her.
2) if im in my vehicle, i BLAST my music so i can't even here what they are trying to say to me, like if i see they are trying to get my attention.(but then again my music is usually blasted, but sometimes I'll get the occasional guy who compliments my tires and lift on the jeep which is always cool.
3) when in my vehicle and i happen to hear what some guy says, I give them the 3 fingers up sign (thumb, pointer,pinky)and start head banging to whatever i have on. and that usually makes them laugh.
4) i drive suppperrrr slow when ever i can so they don't really stay with me.
5)one time an older guy had approched me and was like so what are you doing tonight, and I was like are you kididng me you could be my father, and well that was the end of that.
6) and i pretty much do what socalgal does, give them a blank stare with everything.
I also always try to have my wedding rings as visible as possible so people know im married
my botton line is to immediatly make them think no chance. at clubs for get it, ha ha i am ruthless, I'd hate to be on the recieving line of some of the things i do or say to these guys.
i usually just tell the boys im not very good at matching colors, would you like some oranges?
i was discussing this topic with my male friends the other night and they gave me this tid-bit....a guy pretty much doesn't get insecure about much....but his hair.....so they told me to respond with something about being bald to the guy.
so i try this this morning....i was fixing my hair while at a stop light cause the wind blew it everywhere. so my passenger window is partway down, this freak next to me is staring and i can totally sense it so i look over and he says "gosh you're gorgeous" so i responded, "OH MY GOSH you're going bald" and the look on his face was CLASSIC! it looked like i just told him i had murdered his whole family.
thanks for road testing that tip first. i will try it!
oh yeah seriously, i'm DYING to use it again! that look was just classic!!!
keep me posted =)
lol, just dont get yourself killed by some psycho... that is a pretty harsh one.
what if the guy is John Stamos?
uncle jesse changes everything!!
3 men, living with three small children(sometimes 4 if you count kimmy gibler) is weird.
even worse is joey gladstone is the subject of the song "you oughta know". much worse.
I got chewed out by some RANDOM male just because I didn't accept his complement. He went off about how it seems
(to him) that a female cannot take a complement without assuming it's meant in a derogatory fashion.
Actually I just didn't want to encourage anything further so I kept quiet. btw I'm usually very sweet and well mannered.
i always say thanks if they say something sweet but i keep walking disterestedly away.
i disagree!! ha ha, love ya hun!
haha i was walking to work and these two REALLY old little ladies with walkers were walking, very slowly, about... 10 feet in front of me. This young cute guy walks past them and goes "well hellloooo ladies!" and it was SO cute and he smiled at me and I smiled back. I normally NEVER smile back, but c'mon, that was so cute. Hah
that is adorable. i would have smiled AND winked or done the bunny nose and then kicked myself.
good thing i'm ugly
I hate this kinda crap. If it's a compliment, fine. But that "WHOO, BABY!!" crap irritates me. I was leaving Taco Bell a few months ago, and my hands were full, adn as I got to the door to push it open, this tall older guy opened it for me and held it for me. I thought that was really nice, so I smiled and thanked him. He said "No problem....D*** baby, you're FINE!!"
I walked away feeling so grossed out. It turned that really nice thing he did for me, into something that made me wanna walk away from him backwards, so he couldn't look at my butt or anything. And I felt gross.
Like I said, I hate that crap.
i feel the same way. if its a compliment i think, thanks. actually, "No problem....D*** baby, you're FINE!!" seems like a compliment to me. i would just say thanks and walk away. i mean the guys that say REALLY gross things. those i cant handle.
I think it was just the way he said it. Also, he was kinda gross, so it skeeved me out. I hung around enough clubs in my "pre-witness" days, to know enough about guys to get skeeved out by a lot of them, I guess.
yeah. me not so much. im all pollyanna all the time.
Hahaha...I wish I was. I'm kidna skeptical of people sometimes, but very rarely. It's a good thing I found a great guy when I met my husband, or I doubt I'd have gotten married for a looooong time. Hahaha.
i could use a healthy dose of reality. it just doesnt seem to stick. im accustomed to others looking out for me and this is my problem.
Yeah, I totally understand. I got my dose of reality at an early age. It's tough, but it does help things sink in. I am still really trusting though, which, when it comes to friendships, has caused me to get my feelings hurt on numerous occasions.