Ditching.

[Jayce]

She didn't like you, but felt bad about it.  She was looking for ways to tell you, and that just happened to present itself.  There's
nothing wrong with what you did.  Except maybe having bought Taco Bell for a person feeling sick.

Yeah, I realized that about a week later.  She could have left off the part about the stalker though!  I have a friend who sings "Every Breath You Take" to me to this day.  Fortunately no one believed her (except him, and only as a joke (I think)).

And about the Taco Bell, gimme a break!  It was college - that was high cuisine.

And yes, later the same girl started dating a friend of mine who's known around my hometown for being a drunken loser.  He predictably got wasted and wrecked her car.  Then broke up with her.  Last I heard (years ago, admittedly) she was still mooning after him.

So I kept hanging around, stayed a really close friend, and kept asking.  And asking.  And asking.  And I noticed that the "No"s became "Not Yet"s.  Then early in October we went to a haunted house together, then to a park at night.  And she finally said yes.

Oddly enough, that in reverse is how I met my wife.  She asked, I wasn't interested.  So she kept at it.  After a while I went along with it.  Turns out she was right.

Me, I'm just glad I married someone who doesn't think my getting wasted and wrecking her car is awesome.

[Paelos]

Me, I'm just glad I married someone who doesn't think my getting wasted and wrecking her car is awesome.

Funny, I'm hoping for the opposite, and that she likes games.

I'm never getting married.

[Sky]

You win.  You're the f13 pimp.

Though I've been retired for years, I think I might hold that crown. I just don't like to brag and look all whorish.

But yeah...groupies ftw.

[Stephen Zepp]

You win.  You're the f13 pimp.

Though I've been retired for years, I think I might hold that crown. I just don't like to brag and look all whorish.

But yeah...groupies ftw.

Hehe..not a title I'm worried about, and I would agree with you about groupies (did a bit of roadie work a LONG time ago). My story wasn't intended to brag really (well, not completely anyway), but to illustrate the point I was trying to make about what attracts women.

[HaemishM]

Strippers and other "sex industry" workers are sluts by default. They just happen to be women who work in an industry that promotes open sexuality. That doesn't mean they are all sluts, or even most sluts. Remember, a slut is someone who sleeps around indiscriminately. I'd wager to say that since most non-prostitute sex industry workers are generally hot enough to get almost any man (and some women) they want, they can pick and choose.

Of course, for strippers who are actively hooking and using the club as a place to meet johns, throw that right out the window, because those women's jobs aren't in the sex industry, those women's jobs are to get laid.

[voodoolily]

Not to get any motors running, but all of the sex workers I've known have always fucked their coworkers and coworkers' boyfriends.

[Paelos]

Not to get any motors running, but all of the sex workers I've known have always fucked their coworkers and coworkers' boyfriends.

Meet a lot of sex workers in the science field?

[WayAbvPar]

Sluts fuck anyone.

God bless them, every one.

[voodoolily]

Not to get any motors running, but all of the sex workers I've known have always fucked their coworkers and coworkers' boyfriends.

Meet a lot of sex workers in the science field?

You dork. I don't meet any gamers in the "science field" either. Do you have a life outside your job and this board? (snide tone unintended)

[Paelos]

Not to get any motors running, but all of the sex workers I've known have always fucked their coworkers and coworkers' boyfriends.

Meet a lot of sex workers in the science field?

You dork. I don't meet any gamers in the "science field" either. Do you have a life outside your job and this board? (snide tone unintended)

I think it's pretty obvious that I don't.

[Llava]

Not to get any motors running, but all of the sex workers I've known have always fucked their coworkers and coworkers' boyfriends.

Meet a lot of sex workers in the science field?

You dork. I don't meet any gamers in the "science field" either. Do you have a life outside your job and this board? (snide tone unintended)

I think it's pretty obvious that I don't.

Well, he certainly owned you pretty hard, lily.

[voodoolily]

YEah. Big fat touche, Paelos! 

Hey, new within-this-thread idea: what's the worst thing you've done or had done to you to get even for being dumped/dumping someone?

Besides my aforementioned claiming an ex as a dependent on my taxes, one time I was at his apartment to retrieve some of my stuff, and watched him key in his telephone access code, which I then used to erase all messages he received from women and/or potential employers. Yes, I became a supervillainess last spring. It wasn't pretty.

[shiznitz]

I told a girlfriend that I couldn't date her anymore because she was too fat. Total dick move, even though she was on the chunky side.

[Paelos]

I told a girl in 7th grade that I was going to camp for the summer so she wouldn't call me. My sister ratted me out when she answered our phone after a week.

[stray]

Umm...I kicked off the mailbox out of girlfriend's yard and smashed her car windshield in with it. Then I got on top of the hood and kicked it in some more.

Kind of a one time psychotic deal though, so don't think it was a pattern for me. It was partly justified too. I think.

[Paelos]

Umm...I kicked off the mailbox out of girlfriend's yard and smashed her car windshield in with it. Then I got on top of the hood and kicked it in some more.

Kind of a one time psychotic deal though, so don't think it was a pattern for me. It was partly justified too. I think.

She sleep with your father or something? That seems harsh.

[Miguel]

Well, not exactly answering the new question, but close enough (plus I'm bored at work).

One of my roomates in college was a real video collector.  Pretty much every movie he rented he copied and kept in his extensive pirated video collection of about 150 tapes.  He really liked my best friends girlfriend, however he pretty much kept quiet about it when she/they were around.  All three of us considered each other friends at the time.  I always told him that it wouldn't be cool to shit in someone else's yard, ESPECIALLY if you consider them friends!

I guess he felt his opportunity has finally arrived, so he decided to break them up by telling her that her boyfriend was always cheating on her.  He was real slick about it, just casually dropping lines like "Hey, did you see that girl your boyfriend was hanging around with today?  Is that someone he knows?" and other stuff like that.  This eventually caused the two to break up (after spending every waking moment argueing about it).  He promptly invited this girl for a weekend getaway and disappeared with her toward the end of my Junior year.

So my buddy comes over (the newly single one) and we get drunk, and plot our revenge.  Naturally our eyes fall on his pirated tape collection, and our plan starts to form.

We can't simply smash the collection with a hammer (well, the idea DID come up), since we figure he has grounds to call the police and report the damage.  No, we have to use our heads this time, and come up with a GOOD plan.

So I am in school to get my Electrical Engineering degree, and I remember that the previous year we did some labs concerning high voltage transformers.  Ones that take regular 110V wall AC power and generate 10kV or higher (step up transformers).  I remember that one of them has a really large iron core with an air gap in the middle.  When the thing is energized, there's enough magnetic flux going through there that the whole thing hums loudly.

So you can see where this is going:  I run to the EE building, and borrow a transformer.  We plug that puppy in, and proceed to run EVERY FUCKING ONE of this dudes pirated tape collection through the air gap in the transformer.  This fucker will erase credit cards, render floppies useless, and hold paper clip so hard you can't physically remove it from the housing.  We then carefully re-arranged the tape collection back in it's place and drink ourselves unconscience.

About 5 days later, my roomate comes into my room very distressed looking:

"We [me and my new GF] want to watch a movie but my VCR is acting up", he tells me.
"Oh?", I respond.  "Let's check it out."

Sure enough, the tapes now contain only fuzzy garbage and random streaks.

"Weird", I say.  "Did you try a normal tape?"

So he puts in a movie he bought (we didn't touch those ones), and sure enough it works fine.

"I don't get it.", I say.  "Surely those tapes should be fine."

This guy looks like he is going to throw up.

Then, to put the proverbial icing on the cake, I snap my fingers and say:

"I know what must have happened!  I bet there are power lines running behind that wall, and since you kept the tapes there the electrical field must have messed them up.  I have heard of this kind of thing happening before on floppy disks."

So he slumps off to his room to cry over losing his collection of stolen tapes.  

[Jayce]

I told a girl in 7th grade that I was going to camp for the summer so she wouldn't call me. My sister ratted me out when she answered our phone after a week.

That reminds me:

I was dating (well, seeing) this girl and quickly realized it wasn't happening, but she was really into me.  So I did the cowardly thing and just stopped answering the phone.

Well, she called like 10 times one evening and my roommate got tired of hearing it.  He answered, she asked for me, and he said "He doesn't want to talk to you any more."

She never called back.

I became more forthright after that.

[Strazos]

Miguel's story of geek pwnage.

Teh Winnar is U!

[Llava]

I've never been one for post-breakup revenge.  I'll complain about the girl a lot if I felt I was wronged, but I was never so spiteful as to do anything more.

[shiznitz]

I have never been dumped. I was refused a second date once. However, this is not studliness, just overcautious dating habits.

[stray]

She sleep with your father or something? That seems harsh.

No, she slept with some grotesque looking deformity named "Zeke".

Of course, there's more to it than that, but I'd rather not get it into it.

[WayAbvPar]

No, she slept with some grotesque looking deformity named "Zeke".

Sounds like a recipe for chlidren with webbed feet.

[stray]

Well, he did resemble a toad somewhat. Except with a face covered in blackheads.

[TheWalrus]

  Gal I dated had two email addresses, I knew both passwords. Signed her up for all kinds of porn sites, then answered all the automated "Are you sure" notices through her ID.

That'll learn her.

[Strazos]

Not sure if this makes me feel better or worse, but it's funny nonetheless.