Anonymous Aug 2, 2013 at 11:56 am

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If you don't have a watch or smartphone, there's a time display at every streetcar stop.
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Should she have ignored you? Or lit up a cig? Probably not. But I think it's rude to chat someone up in situations where they can't easily take off... on a bus, say, or at a bus or streetcar stop. So, unless you really needed to know the time, and had no other way of finding it out, you started the rudeness.
3
You typically offer your seat to women? Why? You get my seat only if it looks like you might have trouble standing. I'm pretty sure that's the new (post-90s) gender relations standard. You're not punishing her by behaving as expected. If she expected someone to give up their seat for her, she better get some broken legs.
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Guys like you make it really hard for guys like me to break the ice. It's like you go around town setting off creep alarms just so the next guy who tries to say hi has to wade through your flop sweat just to avoid being associated with you.
Just stop trying please.
5
ugh, women.
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Asking the time (or interacting at all in social environments) is so creepy. Anon should be ashamed for such crass behavior.
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Todd, I think you're a very funny fellow but I'm not sure what fucking planet you're from where politely asking for the time could ever be considered rude. Seriously?
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I think comments on these anon's are strictly geared to hate on whatever the submission said. If someone wrote an IA saying "you suck for spitting in my food", all the comments would be along the lines of "WELL THATS WHAT YOU GET", "ITS JUST SPIT, GET OVER IT", "WHAT A CRYBABY, NO WONDER THEY SPIT IN YOUR FOOD", "THIS IS WHY I CANT GO TO NICE RESTAURANTS, CAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU BEGGING TO HAVE THEIR FOOD SPAT IN", etc.

Todd used to have the best clever little quips... he seems to have lost his talent as of late though. Can't hit a homerun every time, I suppose.
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j. cas:

The I'A's come to us for help and that help is provided.

One way or another.
10
There are people in India that haven't eaten in six years but still have a cell phone. How does someone in the Pearl in 2013 not have a device that tells them what time it is?
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If you are a fat guy with no game, the only way you'll get the skinny, pretty, smoking chicks to talk to you is to make money. Then, with that money, buy a nice watch. I mean a _really_ nice watch. She'll ask you for the time. Otherwise, don't be a creepy fat guy at the street car stop.
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Asking the time is not necessarily rude, but at no point does Anon state that he really wanted to know the time. My guess is that he wanted to ask the time so that he could then comment on the weather so that then he could ask how her day was going so that then he could mention how his day was going so that...

At a streetcar stop, she was a captive audience unless she wanted to walk away and walk to her destination or circle around and wait for a later car. So she didn't play the game. She didn't think you were a rapist, Anon, she thought you were trying to chat her up. You were both rude. So it goes.

If you really did need to know the time, buy a cheap watch.

Sorry, no quips this time.
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anon could have wanted to know the time because trains run on a schedule? not ALL streetcar stops have the time, if it was a streetcar and not a max stop.

maybe anon's phone had broken earlier that day, or the battery died. maybe, like mine, the straps on his wrist watch broke. there could be any number of reasons for needing to ask the time. the girl sounds like an entitled asshole.

i think everyone is bummed out at this dude for being fat, but not wanting to actually say it.
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Phone batteries die, streetcar arrival tickers are constantly turned off, broken, showing incorrect times/schedules. Sometimes it'll just say ESTIMATED ARRIVAL with no time after it so you have to know the time to compare it to the posted (paper) schedule. I've had to ask someone the time just the other day because I realized right after walking all the way to the post office that I left my phone at home. Also I recently switched from an iphone to a Lumia 920, biggest regret ever, shittiest battery life ever.

The comments here just seem like a bunch of conclusion-jumping asshats wanting to declare this guy "creepy" for asking the time while simultaneously being fat (obviously the big guy had his hands in his pockets while massaging his dick and moaning lightly, right guys?), all the while excusing/justifying the woman's behavior. Classic passive aggressive Portland.
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I am a woman and I don't feel like being asked for the time is creepy at all. Most of the commenters on here are being overly sensitive, or want to blame this dudefor all the problems they have picking up chicks.
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I am telling you all what time it is.

It's half past way too late in the fucking day for this. Really.

Humpy close this thread.
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Anyone who talks to you on the streets of San Francisco invariably, sooner or latter, ends up asking you for money. Asking for the time is the most common ice breaker. You can't always tell by how someone is dressed if they are a bum or not, but what brand of purse do you carry?
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I think from now on if I need to interact with strangers of the opposite sex in a random social setting and we are all alone I'm just going to maintain a safety distance of 25 feet and politely shout my questions at them:

"EXCUSE ME MISS, YOU WOULDN'T HAPPEN TO KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS, WOULD YOU? THANKS, HAVE A NICE NIGHT!!!!"
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If you take the poster at his word, I'd say the girl was a brat. I've also definitely walked into Coffee Time and asked the dude at the counter for the time (while ordering, mind you) at which point he pointed out the GIANT clock on the wall directly behind him. Obliviousness happens.

Also, as a woman I've had strange men make some pretty over-the-top chivalrous gestures, but not once has a man offered me his seat on public transportation. It had never even occurred to me that anyone would. I've also never expected to get the last seat when somebody else was closer to it.
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Yes, and remember no eye contact, no breathing, no signs of enjoyment or curiosity, but don't be a creepazoid weirdo stalker pedo rapist like 98.5% of all men are.

This city has become so damn weak in the last 20 years. Transplants from around the country moved here and killed the kindness and realness with their stuck-up Art school/Whole Food social policies.
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And on a side note, Todd has some gems, but he was hit and miss to begin with. None of us are brilliant all the time.
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This whole thing is horseshit. I'm starting to think that 80-90% of these submissions are written by the same person. Whatever, fuck fat dudes and the pretty sluts that hate 'em.
23
ill paxton.

Finally and good night.
24
the street car stops all have clocks on them. this sounds fake.
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Anon forgot to mention how ugly this *mother fucker might be.







*pretty certain here that dude fucks his own mom..
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Mary Jasmine gets a dislike for not reading even the very first comment in this thread. As I previously said, obliviousness happens. Case in point.
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I think that chick was a rude bitch; smoking in the cover street car area; gets you a fine if you get caught doing it. If you smoke at a stop stand a few feet away; have some fucking manners.

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