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World's Worst Pickup Line
At one of our many stops along the way, some guy walked up to me to ask where I was going and where I was from. No big deal. When he found out where in CA I am he told me he lived near Stanford and asked if I knew where that was. I told him I know it well and spent a lot of time there with my husband and his many doctors.
So he asked if everything was ok with him and I explained that he was born with a heart defect and had a transplant, but passed away to complications. He asked when this happened, and I told him March and April.
This is when he turned into a real winner. Immediately he started in on how I shouldn't spend all my time grieving that I won't allow the good lord to put a new man in my life. If I spend all my time grieving, then I may miss a great buy, like the one standing in front of me.
Seriously? I was so dumbfounded that all I could do was look at him. I had no idea what I could say to that that wouldn't make a scene. Thankfully my daughter walked up to me at that time and the freak got scared and walked away.
Once I calmed down I told my mom that I had just heard the world's worst pickup line. She couldn't believe someone could be so insensitive.
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Comment by kimkirt (KK) on July 16, 2012 at 10:23am -
Oh my gosh! What an idiot!
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Comment by AEDforever (Ali) on July 15, 2012 at 9:57pm -
WOW. thats all i can say. what a loser.
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Comment by Joyce on July 15, 2012 at 4:00pm -
I wish you could have bopped him one!
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Comment by Kate on July 14, 2012 at 10:18am -
I was just talking to a female friend about my neighbour (a divorced man) in a very generic way and how he keeps his yard looking nice. She asked how old he is and I told her 50 or 51 (I'm 47) and she all of a sudden and very enthusiastically started saying how he must be interested in me (he is not) like I would be flattered by male attention, and blah blah blah! I wanted to scream at her that Jeff died! That does not make me single and available, it makes me a grieving widow! My heart is very much married, I did not fall out of love when Jeff died. It has been almost 11 months for me now, no one will ever love me like my big guy did!
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Comment by jimswife33 (Michelle) on July 14, 2012 at 3:43am -
Wow Sam, unbelievable, what a jerk. I wish when things like this happen, we could get our words together and just let them have it.
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Comment by chez2all on July 14, 2012 at 12:29am -
he probably thought he was on a sure-thing with a widow...some ppl just don't think, and they open their mouths anyway.
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Comment by Dawn- Clouds Mum on July 13, 2012 at 8:38pm -
There are some very stupid people out there..... I think it happens to us all. A single ex friend (male) tried it on with me just 10 days after Keith died.... I was gob smacked and have not spoken to that particular person since. The insensitivity of some people just means we become stronger by walking away, I did, shaking my head in disgust.
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Comment by celestia (Suzanne) on July 13, 2012 at 2:26pm -
arsehole!
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