What is the best way to brush someone off...

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Okay, so after much drink and revelry at a St. Jean street party, I walked home toute seule and ended up in a conversation with a very nice--totally not creepy or slimy--fellow. I'm one of those idiots that sometimes gets far too excited about speaking French and I thought the conversation would only last a couple of blocks...Granted, it was a very good conversation, but I'm really not interested (I gots the whole significant other thing covered right now). I was so very tired and, frankly, drunk, that I gave the guy my cell number because I couldn't bear to get into explaining myself...now I feel sorta bad and mean. How do I get myself out of this without sounding like a jerk...

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm?

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:33 (twenty-two years ago)

tell him yr pregnant?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

tell him you're a lesbian. oh wait, that might get him even more interested. nevermind.

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:34 (twenty-two years ago)

tell him yr pregnant with a lesbian baby?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Is there any way to do this nicely? I mean, I would enjoy getting into a conversation again, but I think the circumstances surrounding my meeting this fellow prevent this...

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Fake a seizure.

― Dale the Merciless (cprek), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

...that's my answer for everything though.

― Dale the Merciless (cprek), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Viciously demean his carnivorous diet over and over and over again.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

If he calls, innocently ask him if he'd like to join you and your SO for coffee sometime.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

tell the troof

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang out with but give off no romantic signals (unless you find yourself leaning that way once you get to know him).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I shudder to think at the definitions of Dan's "romantic signals".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

When I'm speaking French, I don't really think I'm able to tell if I'm giving off "romantic signals" or not...It's hard to tell what people will read into my second language mannerisms...

Oh, and since he's not from Quebec, he finds my hideous English/Quebecois accent charming as opposed to apalling.

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha that's right, don't flash a tit unless you mean it!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha ha -- I fell into that. I know.

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

feign death

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha that's right, don't flash a tit unless you mean it!

To everyone at the Siberia FAP: I did mean it.

To answer the question, just be a bitch to them and talk about the most obnoxiously mundane thing possible. Not like a bitch in the "fuck off" sense but just be obnoxious. Works like a charm.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Ask him over for 8:00 and inform him incidentally that you always have a poo at 8:00.

― Aaron A., Wednesday, 25 June 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaron, that will not work if the guy is a coprophage.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm married to the sea

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"have you ever seen the movie outbreak?"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

give him a copy of Final Exit for your first date

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

ask him to play the answer me "rape: the boardgame"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

When he asks you if you want to go out say, "Let's play Super Password! I'll start: Yes......"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Show up at his house with a bunch of suitcases. When he asks WTF?, tell him you thought he asked you to move in with him. When he says he didn't, blame it on your poor comprehension of French.

― jewelly (jewelly), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

... But that's my answer for everything.

― jewelly (jewelly), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell him you're into Joy Division

― Farmer Al (King Kobra), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Drop a packet of Goobers, and tell him "Hey, you dropped your name tag"

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 22:25 (twenty-two years ago)

(DB's advice works better with Cuntymints.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 22:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just flipping through this second-year French textbook in which this girl is trying to leave an art museum at closing time & this dude who claims to be an artist - as in, his life is his art - tries over and over to convince her to go have a drink. She says that if he continues to insist, she'll get angry.
I wish I knew a good answer to this partic situation! I have always found that like, if you go to a French speaking place feeling like you are just glad to get the practice at speaking French and so you'll talk to lots of people .. this is what happens. Vous etes seule, mademoiselle ? Vous etes seule ?

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 26 June 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

serious answer: tell him just what you typed. any non-creepy man will be ok with this.

― kephm, Thursday, 26 June 2003 19:28 (twenty-two years ago)

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