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[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 186 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I was out with my friends once in my early twenties, drunk at the limit between "flying high on wings of booze" and "incoherent mass of sick and confusion."

There was this girl who kept catching my eye every time I saw her out and about, and this time she happened to be at the same dive as us. I finally decided to try talking to her, so I kinda' awkwardly accosted her at the bar and I think I started pulling my "over-the-top intellectual" bit for a laugh.

Somehow, it worked! We kept chatting (she was buzzed but significantly more sober than I was), we kept laughing, then she asked me to accompany her on an ATM trip after a while. Now, I'd completely lost my capacity for reading between the lines at this point, so I just took it as a generic action. About midway through the trip, she started pulling in very close to me, my current guess being that she had intended to try smooching. My drunk brain thought "oh, she must be feeling the drag, we need to keep her blood pumping." So I called a race, last one to the ATM is a rotten egg.

Again, surprisingly, she was into it! I could hear her giggling as I was pulling away. I was running like a madman, I could feel my legs moving by themselves. I was a beast, a high-performance machine, a force of nature! Almost started congratulating myself for being such an irresistible hunk, when suddenly I could feel the curb grabbing my left foot. I plunged forward, but luckily my stage fighting reflexes kicked in and I completely unexpectedly started doing landing rolls. I literally rolled the rest of the way to the ATM - about 4-5 meters, not kidding, I'd picked up some serious speed while galloping like a horse on coke. She won and was laughing her ass off, the alcohol inside me had been angered and my brain was oatmeal.

I don't remember many details after that. What I will say, though, is that it worked! Also, that I never again tried wooing or racing anyone while drunk.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 61 points 5 days ago

This is what I visit Lemmy for

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 32 points 5 days ago

Well how'd it work out after that

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 54 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Woke up at hers with a splitting headache and profound nausea (nothing happened, because obviously nothing would happen, I was as close to Wasted as possible), after that things didn't really go anywhere. Nothing dramatic, she was lovely, we just didn't match.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago

Ah, I remember being this age. Thanks for the story, it took me to a really special place.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

So the curb (being a metaphor for mankind) caught your leg (a metaphor for the undertaker), and plunged you towards an ATM (colloquially referred to as "an announcers table" in some circles). A bit cryptic but I got it.

[-] WillFord27@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Unexpectedly sweet? I kept waiting for it to turn bad and it never did. Cute!

[-] Webster@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I was waiting for this to be a setup and you get mugged to withdraw from your ATM. Glad it turned out better lol.

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 60 points 4 days ago

When I was like 10 I remember reading advice in a body building magazine that has stuck with me ever since:

"Don't try to pick up girls, literally or figuratively, at the gym. Women don't feel sexy when they're sweating unless they're already naked."

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 4 days ago

ask them to undress before starting the workout.

got it.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 90 points 4 days ago

Never gets old

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[-] Angelusz@lemmy.world 90 points 5 days ago

Putting on big muscles is for the boys, real girls don't actually like it.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 35 points 5 days ago

Plus of course if you don't put on stupid amounts of muscle you retain the ability to scratch your own nose. Seriously some of the guys at the gym, watching them try their names is a site to behold. The ideal body shape is not the Hulk

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 13 points 4 days ago

Same with beards. You'll get a lot of attention with a nice beard, but not many girls perse

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I will say as a trans chick who used to have a denial beard, women did love it, but that's because I conditioned it. I got so many comments about how they wished more beards were that soft.

Mind you, I also followed rules 1 and 2

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Mind you, I also followed rules 1 and 2

  • A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

  • A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Rule 1: be attractive Rule 2: don't be unattractive

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[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Beards are for for your wife, not for meeting girls.

Married men know what I'm talking about.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 4 days ago

Can confirm. I've gotten exactly one comment from a woman about my physique a couple years ago. I get comments from dudes fairly often. I do still think about what the woman said to me like all the time though.

[-] PyroNeurosis 4 points 4 days ago

Wow! Way to just trivialize the appreciation from the homies!

But yeah, they probably know and understand what you went through for your build much more than others. Or are simply less intimidated.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago

In high school I had a crush on this girl who had something on her Facebook about really liking gummy worms. I read that, thought "this is my in" so I bought a bag of gummy worms. Honestly, not a bad plan. Next time I saw her, I pulled out my bag of gummy worms and ate a couple.

Did I offer her a gummy worm? No. I was under the impression that she'd see me eating them and say "hey, you like gummy worms too?" And then we'd start chatting and [something] and then we'd start going out.

[-] spireghost@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Well, clearly it wouldn't work. You should instead act like you hate gummy worms and give them to her to get rid of them.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The correct assumption when you see frank red blood on exertion is either lung injury/infection/cancer or terminal alcoholism. It's usually the later.

[-] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 11 points 4 days ago

Latter*

Also, don't forget the ever fun Mallory-Weiss tears if your sudden exertion involves something like jumping, or, since it's also associated with heavy alcoholism, after a long and good barfing session.

[-] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

Leaving Las Vegas.

[-] starshipHighwayman69@lemmy.ml 38 points 5 days ago

Gets noticed in the gym and complaining still sheeeshhh

[-] apostrofail@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

This guy who was a *lot bigger than me

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 18 points 4 days ago

Wow, it took until their second sentence before they demonstrated how completely unhinged they are.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

well I mean if she left even without notifying staff or anyone that is a pretty clear red flag but then again so is spurting fake blood to get attention. so maybe they would have made a nice match.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

I imagine anon just staring down this woman as they puke up blood.

[-] _lilith@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago
[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's funny this was around the same time as movies like Evil Dead which set the record (till 2020s atleast) for the amount of fake blood used. I guess it was a thing that excited people quite a lot at the time lol

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

that is a pretty clear red flag

This isn't a red flag, this is a predictable psychological response:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim in the presence of other people.

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 9 points 4 days ago

Alternatively: op was not a suave and clever as he thought, has very obviously been macking on this woman, looked at her, took a sip from his gym sippy cup, spat red shit on the floor at her feet and then stared at her.

I'd fucken run too

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I mean I do understand the sense of weaker responsibility when there are other people around especially those who are immediately responsive and seem like they know what they are doing. But being the first one to witness a distressing event and vacating the premises immediately without informing even the staff is an outlier example, even for this theory imo. Just to note though we are probably discussing this over some made up story.

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[-] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

They both dodged bullets.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago
[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

We really are a unique animal aren’t we?

[-] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 19 points 5 days ago

At some point a single male spider started dancing for their lives. Don't diss innovation.

[-] teamevil@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The Nickelodeon show makes so much more sense now

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 13 points 5 days ago

If her reaction to seeing someone suffer is: "leave", then anon is better off without her.

[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 5 points 4 days ago

Depends. Some people just absolutely cannot handle blood under any circumstances.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

Honestly a powerful litmus test. You’re not going to hook many, but by god will they be empathetic.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Can't keep doing it in the same place though. Word gets around and suddenly you're Blood Cough Guy and... wait a second, this has got to be a bit from IASIP right?

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

Like all greentexts, its premise was plagiarized, yes. The well has always been poisoned (by my constituents)

[-] AlexisFR@jlai.lu 9 points 4 days ago

Yes? Show the other replies please.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

That reminds me April Fools Day is approaching. When I was young I worked in a haunted house where we made blood capsules using Karo syrup, red food dye and put it into empty capsules. I deal with two guys at work that like to get stupid stoned at lunch time

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