If a movie is really good, people will recite lines from it for years.
You know the ones I’m talking about: “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,” “You can’t handle the truth” and “Luke, I am your father” are classics. These movies will be remembered and rehearsed generation after generation.
For me, pick-up lines are kind of the same thing. If it’s a really good one, people will continue using it again and again.
As a woman, I’m not sure if I’m supposed to have a pick-up line. I’ve tried a couple here and there: “Aren’t you in my English class?” and “Oh my god, you’re a football player, right?” Sometimes they worked. Sometimes they didn’t. I found a new one during this past summer that hasn’t failed me yet.
Ready? Here it is: “I write a sex column.”
Men hear this and immediately think I’m a sexpert. One time, I heard something really stupid in return.
I was at a bar in Youngstown during the summer and this very attractive man went out of his way to walk between my friend and me on his way to order a drink. He started making small talk: “Where do you go to school? What are you studying? What do you want to do?”
“I write a sex column,” I said coyly.
“I’ll give you something to write about,” he quickly answered.
I’m not kidding. This man was so attractive, however, I excused his stupid comeback.
What is the point of pick-up lines? To grab someone’s attention and maybe start some kind of relationship with them.
Some are horrible, but do the job anyway. Does it matter if women use them? If anything, it shows their confidence.
A guy I know thinks pick-up lines are a sign of desperation.
“If a girl walks up to me and gives me a line, then she’s trying really hard to get my attention. If she’s trying to get your attention, then there must be something wrong with her.”
He thinks pick-up lines are a waste for women.
“If she has boobs and a vagina, she doesn’t need pick-up lines.”
Looking past this blatantly disgusting statement, I disagree and don’t think there’s anything wrong with me. Why can’t women use pick-up lines? I’m not saying women should pick up the bar tab, but what’s the problem if a woman is interested in a guy and starts talking to him?
Another one of my guy friends met his girlfriend last year after she used a pick-up line on him. He told me she walked up to him at Skully’s and said, “You’re hot, wanna make out?”
They did and have been together since (I think).
Not that this guy is shy, but I don’t know if he would’ve walked up to her and started talking. He should have been flattered she was so interested and she made it clear.
My Youngstown friend, Kate, also has a pick-up line. It’s pretty lame, but it gets guys hooked: “Don’t I know you from (she picks a new place each time)?”
Of course the guy will say no and they’ll talk for awhile trying to find some kind of connection.
The double standards surrounding sex are so frustrating. After talking with friends, I understood it’s OK if a man hits on a girl and takes her home, but then she is labeled easy. And if she uses a pick-up line to get a man home, she’s even easier.
I’m too stubborn to believe any of this. I’m not going to sleep with every man who tells me a pick-up line or that I try to pick up, I’m just trying to meet new people and make friends.
Man or woman – pick-up lines are for anyone.
I don’t care what any guy thinks, always have a pick-up line ready. If all else fails, say you write a sex column. It works every time.
What’s your best pickup line? What’s the worst? Comment on my interactive blog at blog.thelantern.com or e-mail me at [email protected].
