Today, I saw a cute guy at the coffee shop reading a book. Wanting to be friendly, I smiled as I approached and asked what he was reading. He returned the smile and said, "Minding your damn business, by Fuck Off." FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I was in the middle of enjoying a really good book while in a waiting room. Someone saw what I was reading and thought it would be cool if she leaned over and told me everything that happens. FML
Today, I tried to take a subtle picture of a cute guy reading at a café. My phone flash went off. He looked up, made direct eye contact, and said, “You could’ve just asked.” I packed up my stuff and left immediately. FML
Today, I was reading a book in public. Some bastard stranger came over and started spoiling the plot for me. FML
Today, I was having lunch at a cafe. There was an attractive guy looking at me from another table. I smiled back and gave a little wink. A minute later he approached me. I introduced myself and asked if he wanted my number. He said, "Um, no but what are you eating? It looks really good" FML
Today, I went to grab a coffee at a new café in town. While sipping my coffee, I noticed a man staring at me through the window. I thought he was browsing the menu before I looked up mid-sip to him staring at me in the eye, sucking on his finger. FML
Today, I was reading a newspaper at a bus stop when a creepy guy rested his chin on my shoulder and said, "I miss the good old days, when people would read newspapers together and it wasn't classed as weird." He then walked off. FML
Today, a cute guy asked me out for coffee. I like him but didn't want it to be easy, so I said, "Coffee dates are for broke bums, aim a little higher." He said, "Aight I will, peace out" and walked off. FML
Today, I went on a date with a cute guy I met at a bookstore. He stood up and said he was leaving when I said that I didn't like 50 Shades of Grey, because he, "doesn't want to be near a bitch who doesn't know her place". He then told me to give him a ride home. FML
Today, my new boyfriend came over to my apartment for the first time. Up until now I thought he was great, but when he spotted the book I'm currently reading next to my couch, he uttered the immortal question, "Why do you read?" FML
Today, a guy in the library came up to me and said, "You look very unproductive. Just watching you makes me depressed." FML
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WeLikeIke 23
Shit, I have to admit that while you did get blindsided and I have sympathy for you, the dude was a ******* savage
Catdragon 40
I would have responded "well I heard fans of that book are real asshats"
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yahtzeesouls 12
Rekt
wafflesandwich 4
idk, he could have been having a really bad day, op. for all we know his wife couldn't just left him for another man, or, worse for him, another woman. you never know
Death69 24
Well...That escalated quickly. You dodged a bullet OP. Guy sounds like a prick at best. Move on and good on you, for having the guts to approach the bastard. Better luck next time. ?
fishinpink 20
oh. wow. what a Richard Cranium.
faireanjell 5
You should've said. " maybe you should read a book on manners since you don't seem to have any "
donb23 23
Yeah what a jerk and maybe that's why he was sitting alone.
hunt3009 16
Or cause he wanted to read without anyone talking to him...
NostalgiaFreak9 43
Right, because people who choose to sit by themselves in public have no friends. /s
lilithfury 23
He was probably in a relationship, and hated constantly being picked up on by random chicks just cuz he's attractive. My brothers used to have that problem a lot.
Kirtres 4
What is with you people, expecting readers to be nice to interrupters? Leave me alone, I don't owe you my friendship, just because you think I look cute or lonely. Always hated that on my lunch breaks or commute; please let me have my half hour away from people. If you MUST try to get my attention, leave me a note. I'll see it when I put my bok down.
DoomedGemini 38
You're in ******* public. You have every right to not want to be interrupted, but you can simply politely indicate you want to be left alone or say it. If they won't, then you can bring the bitch out. If you act like a dick over a single sentence spoke to you, I don't care if you were at the climax of the book you're a douchebag. There's are many polite ways that you can still tell them to leave you alone.
annalily5 28
He was reading, that means he was already politely indicating he wanted to be left the **** alone.
Kirtres 4
#98, I consider my book enough indication to leave me alone, thank you very much. If you don't get that, chances are I don't wanna waste my time on you anyway.
Thoughtfulelf123 3
If I'm reading, it means I'm in a different world. I find it incredibly rude when some interrupts that without good reason. The guy was kind of a dick about it, but OP should know better.
annalily5 28
Pretty basic ******* rule, if a stranger is reading, listening to music, or otherwise engrossed in an activity, you leave them the **** alone unless you have something actually important to ask or tell them. Thinking the person is cute and wanting to get in their pants is not important. Was his response a little overly harsh. Sure, why not (though personally I've dealt with enough annoying dudes doing this that it sounds perfectly acceptable to me, if I politely hinted at every a-hole who can't follow basic decency to go away I'd have no time to do anything else in life), but you were rude first, so learn from it and start paying attention to obvious signals people send off.