'You'll never believe what happened last night."
It's the 21-year-old, calling on a Sunday afternoon.
"This old guy tried to pick me up."
It seems she and a girlfriend had gone to dinner, and because it was early, they decided to stop for a drink before hitting the video store and going home to watch movies. They'd just sat down and ordered a beer each when a man approached them.
"Both of us were wearing cute dresses, not skanky in any way, and he walked over and was like, 'Do you like my hat?'" she said. "'It was from some football team I didn't know. And we were like, 'Yeah,' and he was talking about how he got it for free and talking about his hat and the whole time he was staring at my chest.'"
He offered to buy her a drink and she declined. He put his cell phone down in front of her and told her that if she looked through it, she would find a picture of his dog. Then he walked off to the bathroom.
"Why would I look through his phone when I don't even know him?" she asked. "And right on the screen the way he left it I could see there was a picture of this blond girl my age on it."
Maybe his daughter? Maybe some other girl he knows?
"Then he came back, staring at my chest again. He said, 'I'm sorry, but you're really hot,' and then he goes, 'I'm 49.' I wished I would have said my dad's 49, but I didn't think to. He just kept staring and telling me how pretty my hair was, and tried to buy me a drink again, and I kept saying no."
He wouldn't quit, returning repeatedly to their table. Finally, she and her friend were so uncomfortable that they hurriedly finished their drinks so they could leave.
Men that age who try to pick up girls her age like that might do well to see how it looks from the other side.
"I thought how pathetic it is that he has to prey on young girls," she said. "It's just yucky."
Meanwhile, I wish I'd known about it while it was happening. I'd have sent her a picture, on her phone, to show him.
Instead of a dog wagging its tail, he would have seen a mother, not much older than he is, wagging her finger.
Kathy Gibbons can be reached via the Record-Eagle or at gibbonskath@yahoo.com.
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