It's not like I was out-of-the-blue busting her balls. Say I see this in a woman's profile: "I've mastered the art of unwrapping a Starburst in my mouth." You

It's not like I was out-of-the-blue busting her balls. Say I see this in a woman's profile: "I've mastered the art of unwrapping a Starburst in my mouth." You can be sure you'll find something like this in my first message to her: "Awesome, I hear it takes ten years to master an art...." That actually has me cracking up right now. So, it's not like this particular person had a precedent to conclude that I was more likely trying to be a dick, rather than having fun in accordance to my previous messages. Something made her completely miss the fun side of it. And the few times this "unpaid phone bill" joke didn't get me the number, the woman was polite with something like: "sorry, it's too soon. I'm just not comfortable giving my number to a guy on the internet yet." Which is absolutely fine. I know what this looks like (I'm an a-hole), but I also know how women generally respond to this stuff; I have empirical evidence that shows a strong correlation of success. Her response was not normal and pretty low-class, and really left me blindsided. She did say some pretty ridiculous stuff that wouldn't even be true of a dog with down syndrome. Quite unbalanced, even if you read my message at face value: with no evidence other than her not giving me the number, I was asserting she couldn't pay her phone bill on time, and that I was willing to share some of my raman. Besides, I had never met a person who didn't think raman was funny in itself. Who hasn't lived off it for a few days? It's like an inside joke we all share. I'm not going to abandon everything that actually works because one person got offended. It has worked before, and it is very likely that it'll work another 50 times before I come across someone who is even mildly offended by my general manner. Also, and I feel really bad mentioning this, she is one of the lesser looking girls I've spoken to with intentions of dating. I'm starting to think the whole thing was because she had less experience with jolly bantering. But, this may be me unjustly rationalizing. Thank god for nested comments. Waaaayyyy off topic.