are your legs tired...

Everyone is used to cheesy pick up lines. I think they're used more in jest than they are to pick people up these days. I mean, it's not like they would work, right? Some classics:

• "Are your legs tired...because you've been running through my mind all day."
• "Your dad must be a thief...because it looks like he stole the stars out of the sky and put them in your eyes."
• "Do you have a band-aid...because I scraped my knee when I fell for you."
• "Girl, if you were a booger, I'd pick you first."
• Taking a girl to a movie and coming up with an excuse to put your arm around her (i.e. the yawn).

Now I understand this is coming from the man whose first words to his future wife were, "Polly, want a cracker?" Of course, I said that as a joke, and I believe I won Polly's heart in spite of, not because of that line. Still, talking to some of my female friends, I have discovered that people still use some pretty cheesy lines/tactics in an attempt to pick up girls. Some examples:

• Once, when I was in college, I was at a coffee shop with a group of people. This guy was trying to hit on this girl pretty bad all night. But once at the coffee shop, sitting next to her on a couch, he asked, "What's your major?" She replied, "Missions." He said, "Mine too." He then proceeded to attempt to put his arm around her! No kidding. I mean, I thought that only happened on cheesy Disney television shows as a goof trying to be funny. A couple days later, the same kid "tried to teach her how to throw a football." I couldn't believe it!
• A friend of mine was in a bar where a guy kept trying to hit on her. He didn't get the hint that she wasn't interested. When she went up to the bar to order another drink, he let out this doozy: "If you keep coming up here, I'm gonna think you like me." She was like, "Um, no, actually I just want a drink." He still continued hitting on her the rest of the night. Some guys just cannot take a hint.
• This one takes the cake for me: A friend of mine was driving down the highway once when a truck driver wrote his number on a piece of paper and tried to get her to roll down the window so he could throw it to her. You've got to be kidding me!

I know there are plenty more examples of cheesy attempts at picking up girls. And I'm sure girls have been guilty of the cheese also. But seriously, how can people think they'll actually work? Maybe they do it for my entertainment. That must be it, because there is simply no other logical reasoning for it.