Favorite rejection lines

[Adam]

Hey, all. I was just wondering if any of you have had some memorable rejections (and who of us hasn't?), and what they were? We're all told that the worst thing that someone can say is "no," which is kinda true, but often "no" is said is some interesting ways.

Personally, I have a list of my top five rejections. Three are just interesting excuses...two are not. Of course, they won't have the same impact when read here as opposed to being said to your face by someone that you're asking out, but here's the first one.

Number 5: "Uh, this weekend? Sorry, I can't. I have to go paint my grandparents' house."

Think that she actually had to paint their house? Just wait.

Now, I'm sure that you all can top that one.

Adam

 

[Buckle-meister]

Looks like nobody at Audioholics's had anyone say no to them.

Gosh what a fine looking bunch of guys we are!

 

[Adam]

Looks like nobody at Audioholics's had anyone say no to them.

Gosh what a fine looking bunch of guys we are!

Thanks, Robbie!

My honorary number 4 was going to be the deafening silence of my fellow audioholics to my thread. Oh, the irony of being rejected in a thread about rejection.

Number 4: "Tonight? Hmmm. Oh, I can't. I'm baking muffins."

 

[majorloser]

Don't hate the player, hate the game

Some of us have the bodyguards escort them away.

 

[mike c]

Don't hate the player, hate the game

Some of us have the bodyguards escort them away.

or some us nerds just didn't try asking girls out ...

 

[Buckle-meister]

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

No; the rules.

 

[Adam]

Approximately one week after Number 5...

Number 3: "Uh, this weekend? Sorry, I can't. I have to go paint my grandparents' house...it was raining last weekend."

 

[Johnd]

Well...Adam. The votes are in. Robbie, majorloser and mike c have all formed a consensus, and it seems to be that this game is no fun.

I think you would have been greeted with a similarly warm reception with a poll on "How many front teeth have you lost to decay?" or "What is you favorite std?"

 

[Johnd]

I have to go paint my grandparents' house...it was raining last weekend."

To wit: The eager suitor might have replied:
"I'll be happy to assist you til all hours of the night so as not to be denied your beauty." You may want to be better prepared next time.

Unrequited love.

 

[Adam]

This reception wasn't warm? More of a response than I normally get.

 

[majorloser]

"What is you favorite std?"

Hmmmmm........tough choice.

 

[avaserfi]

Well, I remembered a good one for you Adam. Although it is more a story about an accidental rejection that lead to quiet a bit of embarrassment. Sometime around 8th or 9th grade I had a crush on this girl, didn't know her too well as we had just talked a couple times, eventually I find out through one of her friends that she likes me too, so her friend gives me her number without telling her any of this. On Friday night I figure nothing to lose might as well give it a shot and call her. Ask her if she wants to see a movie with me, apparently she didn't catch my name and asks who it is I reply with my first and last name and she responds "Sorry, I don't know who you are." Apparently, she never new my last name and was entirely caught off guard by my call so she didn't even make the connection it was me. I thought it rather odd, but went on. About a week later she talks to me about it face bright red when she finally found out it was me that called. Things didn't work out to well from there, but it makes for a funny story, but only because its at her expense .

 

[Adam]

Hee, hee. Good one. Thanks, avaserfi.

Likewise, my next one was also from a phone call to a girl that I had a crush on, but this was in college. I had never spoken to her before and called her up one night. Now, if anyone here has every experienced repressed memories, you'll be able to relate to this phone call. I kid you not, my mind actively repressed most of the phone call before it was even over. I hung up and couldn't remember most of what happened...it was that bad. I have fleeting memories of "hello" and "I already have enough friends", but it was all capped off with this:

Number 2: "Is this going to take long? I'm in the middle of brushing my teeth."

 

[Davemcc]

C'mon guys. Cold calls to girls you barely know??? Let's pick up the game here.

 

[avaserfi]

C'mon guys. Cold calls to girls you barely know??? Let's pick up the game here.

She was hot and liked me that was all I needed to know . Doesn't matter now though, I am "stuck" with the same girl I have been with for the past 2 years although there isn't really a story behind that one at least I don't remember it...one too many that night .

 

[Adam]

C'mon guys. Cold calls to girls you barely know??? Let's pick up the game here.

I hear ya, but there's far more to that last one than I'm willing to tell or anyone here is willing to read. The whole story spans a couple of years in college, but that was one of the "highlights." Another highlight was finding out after I called here that one of my friends had been sending her love letters (but this guy was a little off, so they were probably stalkerish) and signing them from me. Ahhh, college.

 

[Wafflesomd]

No.....

 

[Tomorrow]

C'mon guys. Cold calls to girls you barely know??? Let's pick up the game here.

Okay, I wasn't gonna post this, but for you, Dave, a true story.

I was back home for break from my first semester of college at UC Berkeley and thought I was pretty cool, indeed. Just for fun I went with a friend to San Diego State University to one of his classes. (The school break schedules were different.)

There was this lovely, lovely young blonde sitting right in front of us. I was hugely smitten. During semi-appropriate moments I tried to curry her favor with jokes and what passed for wisdom amongst college freshmen.

At the end of the class, I asked her out for dinner that evening. She told me "No. I have a boyfriend named Eric. He wouldn't like it." I caringly asked about him (slick move, thought I). She told me he was in Flint, going to the University of Michigan. WELL...that was a fish of a different odor, thought I. He was THREE THOUSAND MILES away! "Let's just go have some coffee." Again, "No, I can't go", says she. "My boyfriend would not approve!"

Getting into my smarty posture I said, "Sure you can go. What do the last four letters in Amer-i-can spell?!" ( ) Well, without missing one instant of a beat, she fired back...."I don't know about that, but the middle four are ERIC and I'm not going with you!"

 

[stratman]

Okay, I wasn't gonna post this, but for you, Dave, a true story.

I was back home for break from my first semester of college at UC Berkeley and thought I was pretty cool, indeed. Just for fun I went with a friend to San Diego State University to one of his classes. (The school break schedules were different.)

There was this lovely, lovely young blonde sitting right in front of us. I was hugely smitten. During semi-appropriate moments I tried to curry her favor with jokes and what passed for wisdom amongst college freshmen.

At the end of the class, I asked her out for dinner that evening. She told me "No. I have a boyfriend named Eric. He wouldn't like it." I caringly asked about him (slick move, thought I). She told me he was in Flint, going to the University of Michigan. WELL...that was a fish of a different odor, thought I. He was THREE THOUSAND MILES away! "Let's just go have some coffee." Again, "No, I can't go", says she. "My boyfriend would not approve!"

Getting into my smarty posture I said, "Sure you can go. What do the last four letters in Amer-i-can spell?!" ( ) Well, without missing one instant of a beat, she fired back...."I don't know about that, but the middle four are ERIC and I'm not going with you!"

Well at least she didn't use foul language, unlike today.

 

[mike c]

Getting into my smarty posture I said, "Sure you can go. What do the last four letters in Amer-i-can spell?!" ( ) Well, without missing one instant of a beat, she fired back...."I don't know about that, but the middle four are ERIC and I'm not going with you!"

hahaha ... she's way faster than you!

if there's a pretty girl ... odds are, they have a boyfriend.