9/22/2009

From the "Dudes, Why Can't I Score?" Department:

Submitted by Maire:

I'm a PhD researcher who looks significantly younger than I actually am. The bane of my existence is "freshers week" - when the Freshmen hit the campus.

Yesterday, I'm minding my own business in a coffee shop when this random boy walks up to me and asks, "Hey, what are you up to tonight?"

I saw that he was with friends, so I said really quietly, so as not to embarrass him, "I'm not a Fresher, I'm 26. I may even be teaching you. Tonight, I'll be going home to my house and my fiance. Why don't you just tell your friends that I have a boyfriend?"

I smiled as he turned away, thinking what a good deed I had done, protecting his fragile image among his new friends. He then roared across the coffee shop, "Dudes, she's like 30!"
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11 comments:

  1. Mallory Lucas9/22/2009 4:49 PM

    What did you expect? It's college. College freshman are basically the same as high school seniors.

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  2. Anonymous9/22/2009 5:29 PM

    Haaaa! I always get the young ones too.

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  3. Anonymous9/22/2009 6:18 PM

    Best I've read on here in awhile

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  4. Anonymous9/22/2009 8:44 PM

    Heh, well that's better than having him continue to hit on you anyway after you tried to let him down so softly.

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  5. Anonymous9/23/2009 10:21 AM

    26, youre still a child

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  6. Anonymous9/25/2009 6:03 AM

    Anonymous said...
    26, youre still a child
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    Have you ever actually met a professor? Academics are basically children for life. That is basically the whole reason to be an academic.

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  7. Anonymous9/25/2009 4:49 PM

    well arent you cool going home to your fiance and your house. stop acting all high and mighty. you are 26 probably fresh out of college

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  8. CM9/26/2009 4:55 AM

    I've met people like you. High & mighty and tiresome, over educated and boring. With no real fiance, possibly a house with 12 cats in it and some dry toast.

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  9. maire9/28/2009 7:07 AM

    Wow, I'm so glad I decided to share a funny story. How clearly you have seen through what a terrible person I am in those ten lines of text. Seriously - you're judging my life to be meanless and cat-filled? You'vce just been seriously offended by a stupid thing that had me in stitches in a coffee shop. Sad.

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  10. Wim DS10/04/2009 3:13 PM

    That'll teach YOU for not just saying "I'm sorry hun, I've got a boyfriend". You telling him you were older and he made a mistake was simply not necessary :)

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  11. Anonymous2/06/2010 9:44 AM

    I think it was kinda funny to be patronising to the freshman, because it totally backfired.
    She got a laugh out of it and, unlike most of the stories here, she isn't whining about anything.
    I don't see how that makes her 'high and mighty' at all.

    I laughed loud enough to startle my coworker at this one :D

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