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 Amazonia (original poster member #32810) posted at 11:34 AM on Monday, July 22nd, 2013

Last night I finished all my homework early, so I went downtown to see a movie (yay!). On the way, I observed a man and woman chatting on the metro. It looked like they were on a first date; judging from their conversation, you could tell they had very recently met.

Nobody in DC is from DC (well, almost nobody), so one of the first questions you ask everyone is where they're from. He had obviously asked her that, because he was grilling her about her hometown in Kansas.

Some of his gems included such charming lines as,

"Wow, that sounds like a town. Not even a big town, just a town."

"Why would anyone ever want to move there?"

"Isn't that where Bellvue is?" (Bellvue is a law school in Nebraska....)

And my all time favorite:

"So your parents are probably farmers, right?"

She was just kind of looking at him like , probably trying to figure out how to get out of dinner.

Poor girl.

"You yourself deserve your love and affection as much as anybody in the universe." -Buddha
"Let's face it, life is a crap shoot." -Sad in AZ

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Bluebird26 ( member #36445) posted at 12:27 PM on Monday, July 22nd, 2013

I bet she met him OLD and he looks nothing like his profile pic either.

Me: BW

Best thing I gained in my divorce - my freedom.

Life's good.

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She11ybeanz ( member #27457) posted at 1:52 PM on Monday, July 22nd, 2013

Nothing gets my Southern panties in a bunch more than when someone ASSumes that I live on a farm just because I have a Southern accent!

I mean....REALLY??!!!

I remember going to Las Vegas with my mom when I was 21 and some girls stopped to talk to me and asked where I was from...and I said Virginia...and one of them said, "Can't you tell by the way she talks!?" UGH!

I think my accent is cute .....and endearing....DAMN IT!

My favorite is when people ask me if I do "cow tipping" for fun and have pigs and horses and cows on my farm...... um no. I live in a duplex with my daughter. I don't even have a cat right now.

"Sometimes your knight in shining armor ...is just a douchebag in tin foil!!"

ME - BW - 35
HIM - XWH - 39
D day: November 15th, 2009
Married: 5 Years, together 8
Divorced: December 13th, 2010
New Beginning: Piper/8-3-12

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nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 2:31 PM on Monday, July 22nd, 2013

(((random Kansas girl on metro)))

Um, yeah. Try being from Iowa.

"Is that where they grow potatoes?" Nope. That's Idaho.

"Oh! I love the Buckeyes!" Nope. That's Ohio.

"Did you raise pigs on your farm?" Nope, never stepped foot on a farm until I was in my 40s.

You can call me NIK

And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane

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Losttransport ( member #39409) posted at 2:51 PM on Monday, July 22nd, 2013

Got such a laugh this morning at this post!

I was asked a few years ago if my children rode horses to school (we are in Texas) lol um nope, the pickup does just fine!

Me: BS-50
Hubby: WS-50
OW: his high school girlfriend
Affair started last November
3 DD, 1 DS all grown
Time heals all wounds-I do not agree.

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osxgirl ( member #8795) posted at 10:45 PM on Monday, July 22nd, 2013

Try this one... I grew up in Indiana. When I say that, I almost always get asked where in Indiana.

I explain that it's a little town in NW Indiana no one has ever heard of. It was annexed years ago and so even though it is not really in the city, it is technically a part of... Gary.

I often then have to sit through a rousing chorus of "Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana...". Fortunately, that's usually the only words from the song that people know.

Less frequently, I get wide-eyed looks and comments like "Gary? Really?" (Those come from anyone who knows what a high crime rate Gary has.)

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devistatedmom ( member #24961) posted at 11:44 PM on Monday, July 22nd, 2013

I live in Canada. At one point I worked for a company that had it's head office in the U.S. We normally had to call in reports every monday. (this was before email). After a long weekend the girl from H.O. called TICKED that we didn't phone the day before, and that we didn't even answer the phone!! I explained to her it was a long weekend. She said no it wasn't. I said it was in Canada. She decided I was lying, because Canada wasn't a different country, just a state, and we DID NOT have different holidays.

The best are those that think because I live in Canada, it MUST be snow, all the time, and I take my dog sled to work. Ummm....yeah...it was over 80 every day here last week!!

BS(me) 46, Two wonderful teens.
He is no longer my best friend. Repeat until it sticks.

WH says marriage is over: May 15, 2009.
EA#2 July 20, 2009. Legally sep: Aug 16, 2009. DIVORCED!!!! Signed Nov 23, final Dec 24, 2010, adultery listed.

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meaniemouse ( member #10798) posted at 11:56 PM on Monday, July 22nd, 2013

Well since I do live in Kansas I run into these weenies all the time. The think that Jesse James still terrorizes the town and cows roam freely through the streets and everyone lives on a farm. Seriously, how are people so goofy?

Act as if what you do matters. It does. William James

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redvixen ( member #15259) posted at 1:07 AM on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Try being from New Jersey. Everyone thinks we speak and act like those idiots on "Jersey Shore" - and only one of them was even from NJ. We also don't say "Joisey" - that's the imports from Staten Island and New Yawk that sound like that. We're not all connected (though I was told about an "Uncle Joey" through my Uncle Sal) to the mob, either. (RIP James Gandolfini). Sheesh.

Me, BS Him WS early 40's at the start, cheated before and after cancer diagnosis.
Two A's, two OW's, online looking for sex partners, two false R's.
Threw him out in January 2009.
Divorce final March 30th, 2010

XWH died Dec. 2010

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She11ybeanz ( member #27457) posted at 3:04 AM on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

The best are those that think because I live in Canada, it MUST be snow, all the time, and I take my dog sled to work. Ummm....yeah...it was over 80 every day here last week!!

Shut up! You know you take your dog sled to work every day......uphill....both ways!!! People truly are itiots!! OMG!!

[This message edited by She11ybeanz at 9:04 PM, July 22nd (Monday)]

"Sometimes your knight in shining armor ...is just a douchebag in tin foil!!"

ME - BW - 35
HIM - XWH - 39
D day: November 15th, 2009
Married: 5 Years, together 8
Divorced: December 13th, 2010
New Beginning: Piper/8-3-12

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LisaReg ( member #22825) posted at 5:06 AM on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Im from tiny little Delaware. We were the first state to ratify the US Constitution and we are the home of tax-free shopping. We were traveling and someone asked us if Delaware was in Pennsylvania. My 15-year old son said straight faced yes, yes it is. When we walked away I heard him say under his breath "Dumb ass."

BW (me)
WH(him)
"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key." The Eagles

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259 ( member #22860) posted at 5:19 AM on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

well I'm from New Zealand - lots of USA folk seem to think its in Australia lol

umm.... nope

Me = FBS
Him = gone


things that happen in my life do not define who I am. I get to choose to be the best I can be, for me. cause I'm worth it.



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purplejacket4 ( member #34262) posted at 5:38 AM on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Well, here in the Great Southwest people think we have tumble weeds blowing everywhere! Wait. That's true we actually do. Damn things are hard to pull out of the ground too!

Me: BS 50
Her: FWS 53 (both family med MDs; together 23 years)
OW: who cares (PhD)
Dday: 10/11: 11/11 TT for months; NC 8/12
Limboconsiliationish
"band aids don't fix bullet holes" Taylor Swift
I NEVER mind medical ???

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persevere ( member #31468) posted at 5:51 AM on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

I'm willing to bet that guy doesn't get many second dates....

DDay:2011
Status: D 2011
Remarried to a kind and wonderful man - 2017

Above all, be the heroine, not the victim. - Nora Ephron

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K.

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