When I was in my early 40’s the women that I worked with cajoled me into going to the local bar where a band was playing. Surrounded by younger people and feeling out of place dithering whether to leave or not a young man came up to me and stated:
“You don’t belong here”.
I suppose he was trying to separate me from the herd?
I thought a bit after he walked away from me and then his friend asked me what I thought about what his friend said to me?
I figured it was a game plan that these idiots came up with in order to snag a women…so I told him to tell his friend Thank You , because he is right I don’t belong in a crowd of “boys”.
While he went to tell his friend I called a cab and was out the door waiting for it when these idiots came to me and ‘still” playing “catch me if you want me” ?
I don’t think that they believed that I had actually called a cab? I had called a cab because I didn’t want this gang of “boys” following me home.
Cab came, I go in and the one “boy” who started all this was chasing after the cab, knowing that he said a hurtful think to a total stranger and it backfired on him.
Cab driver asked me if I wanted to stop as he saw the “boy” chasing the cab, I told him “Definitely NOT!
( I explained to the cab driver what had occurred and the fears that it brought up of an ex who was violent and hunting me down at that time in my life.)
Those “boys” didn’t realize what damage that they did that day..I was scared for a few weeks after that.
Apparently they had read a book ,I think titled : The Black Book of Pickup Lines…Or The little Black Book of Pick up lines?
I found it years later and that was one of the lines used in that book of which every male of the younger generation was reading it like it was the assurance and be all of time?
There mistake WAS USING A PICK UP LINE!