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What are your rehearsed excuses?

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  1. Jackie Ray

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    I had a very attractive middle-aged woman hit on me yesterday. She told me what a nice looking young man I was, and asked me out. I told her I appreciated it but I wasn't interested, which was true. She asked me why a guy like me wasnt with a woman, and I had to go back to my rehearsed excuses. "Oh no ma'am, not me, I like my freedom" or "Im sort of a neat freak, its makes me difficult to live with" and "I dont like to ask permission to have a beer with my buddies".

    I really like getting attention from men and even women, because its nice to feel desirable, especially when you were unpopular in school like I was. I am a young fit man, with good work and I think Im sort of handsome, so I find myself answering the "Why dont you have a girlfriend" question a lot.

    What are your rehearsed excuses? It would be interesting to hear some.
     
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    I don't have a girlfriend because my husband has proved totally unreasonable on the issue.:smile:
     
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    No rehearsed excuses. "I don't like people." is usually enough, and when it isn't, that's when misanthrope mode activates and I start listing problems I have with humanity until they go away.
     
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    You boys are vicious.
     
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    How else am I going to get people I don't to talk to to leave me alone?
     
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    I suffered from very low self-esteem growing up so I always get a rise when somebody finds me attractive, man or woman. I feel so bad turning them down.
     
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    I don't. I've become used to being single and alone, and a lot of people who make my job possible piss me off. Put that together with introverted tendencies, and accepting people's attention just does not fly.
     
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    You are a feisty one aren't you?
     
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    Not really, no.
     
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    My excuse is "I'm too busy in work and school for a relationship."
     
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    Hmmmm....I dont know.... :wink:
     
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    Do you get it a lot too?
     
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    Not really but that's usually what I say.
     
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    I have no idea wha you're implying.
     
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    Im just pulling your leg, but I can see you dont like it, Im sorry.
     
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    It's cool.
     
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    That's my go-to with family members I'm not out to or people I don't know. That or "I enjoy my independence."
     
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    Yep, I used that one on my Grandmother this past Saturday.
     
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    Haha, I use it on my dad.
     
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    "I'm already taken" <-- I wonder if they can see through this?