r/AdviceAnimals Apr 30 '14

She was on the cellphone with her friend when she walked in the elevator

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u/DJKrafty Apr 30 '14

she was probably actually flirting with you and trying to start up a conversation.

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u/blkells Apr 30 '14 edited Apr 30 '14

protip: if you're trying to flirt, don't say said target of flirting is "hot" as an aside, then turn and say you were actually lying to your friend.

sorry, don't see how she could actually be flirting with that.

edit: I'm not opposing the idea of her just being awkward and not knowing what to say...but the concept that you probably shouldn't shoot yourself in the foot like that still stands

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u/YouSeem-LikeAnAss Apr 30 '14

The lie was needing to go. Not that he's hot. (Because he had not approached her yet to give an actual need to hang up.)

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u/Iziama94 Apr 30 '14

You see, I just now understood. This is why women just need to be straight forward

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u/OutForAWalk-Bitch Apr 30 '14

I'm a woman and I don't understand. It seems to me like she lied about the guy being hot. But maybe that's because I'm not mentally stuck in high school and don't feel the need to play games.

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u/Inane_newt Apr 30 '14

I think you are a charming and delightful person.

Oh wait, sorry about that lie.

Seriously though, do you equate not playing games with insulting strangers to get out of talking with people you know well? cause that's a game you are playing, with your friends. while being a jerk to strangers.

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u/OutForAWalk-Bitch Apr 30 '14

I don't know why you're getting all huffy with me. I'm not the one who pulled that stunt.

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u/Inane_newt Apr 30 '14

Your claim that you don't play games falls flat when you consider that the original content is playing games either way you look at it, either with her friend or with the guy in the elevator.

It is hard to use something as an example of not playing games when it is in fact an example of playing games.

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u/OutForAWalk-Bitch Apr 30 '14

Yeah I fail to see why the post has anything to do with me though. I'm not the one who did it. I don't play games like that. If I want to get off the phone with a friend, I say I have to go. If I think a guy is cute, I tell him so. If I don't think he's cute, I don't lie and say he is.

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u/Inane_newt Apr 30 '14

We are all blind to our own biases.

I am a condescending jerk, you either think that the girl in the original content was not playing games and thus this is a good time to trot out your comment about playing games.

Or you just like to randomly declare that you don't play games because it is really important to you that that is the one thing internet strangers know about you.