Topic for discussion: Do girls use pickup lines on guys?

[Mercule]

If you missed this, I'd be surprised if you don't have your own gravitational pull.

Well, that'd explain the attraction, then (yuk, yuk). It definitely had nothing to do with my sparkling intellect.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I had a good friend in college whom I had always wanted to date, but it never worked out. She graduated a year before me and during that summer she and I drove cross-country to the new house her parents had bought so we could meet the moving truck there. Four days in the car, three nights in hotels, a week by ourselves in the new house and I never picked up on the lines she was dropping on me. It wasn't for a few years and after I was happily married to someone else that I figured it out. In my defense, in college we had always been flirty with each other, but she had never wanted to push things further. I just assumed that was the case on that trip.

 

[Psion]

It's been my experience that women don't drop pick up lines so much as create openings for pick up lines.

Example (and it should be noted that this is a gamer girl): I was playing with my normal group of gamer friends at college at the library, and a gamer girl I know who never hangs out with that particular group shows up to say hi. I'm playing the Americans in a game of Axis & Allies. She grabs one of my transports and starts playing around with it, moving it around the map, finally ending with the transport at Brazil.

Me (picking up on the opening for once in my life): "Say, speaking of which, Brazil is playing at the student Union tonight. Wanna go see it?"

I gotta say though, with my wife, it was totally a facial expression thing that let me know she was interested.