Pick-Up Lines and No Protocol

Pick-up lines can be cute, quirky or downright creepy, depending on who’s delivering them to you.

For some, it’s difficult to find love in the right places, so people end up saying all the wrong things to get their love interests to notice them.

In Namibia, pick-up lines have become quite unique, with phrases such as “my size!” being tossed around. It’s always interesting to listen to and laugh at in those inopportune moments.

Thomas Kasita used an interesting pick-up line on a girl and had an interesting punchline to come with it.

“I asked some girl a question like ‘hi, is there something wrong with your phone?’ She would ask what is wrong with it, then I would reply ‘my number isn’t in it’.”

Sakeus Shakes Bantwini had his own pick-up line to charm the ladies: “Can I hold your hand? It looks heavy.”

With blushing ladies and cool conversations to follow, the point of a pick-up line is to get your love interest to talk to you.

But sometimes people tend to take it too far, as Agnes Mushiba explains.

“I’ve had this one used on me: ‘You remind me of my ex-girlfriend, but she’s dead now. I didn’t think that was flattering at all.”

Sadly, many men’s attempts at pick-up lines fail because women are no longer having any of it.

Although they are still used now and then, it’s not a surprise that they are not as prevalent as in the past.

After all, times are changing!

But men are not the only ones who use pick-up lines.

There are a number of cases where men had to stand back and let the ladies do the talking.

Marvellous Boois shares his experience.

“I was at a New Year’s beach party at Camps Bay.

A girl walks up to me and says ‘has anyone ever told you that I’ve got beautiful eyes?’

At first I thought she was obnoxious, and then I caught the joke.” Hilarious, isn’t it?

Pick-up lines are basically a gamble.

If you’re into someone and would like to talk to them, you have to find new and interesting ways to get their attention.

It’s overwhelming, because there are only two ways to go: Back to the drawing board or into the arms of your new lover.

More pick-up lines you might have heard are “you must be a broom, because you have swept me off my feet!” or “do you have a band-aid? Because I just scraped my knee falling for you”.

A proudly Namibian pick-up line which you may have encountered is simply handing your phone to your love interest and saying “081?” Clever, right?

And here’s one you might not have heard before: “If you were a vegetable, you would be a cute-cumber!”

Edwin Samule also had one to share.

“Is your name Isis because you just blew me away!”

Here’s an example: “Hey, listen. I want to tell you a story… in your mouth.”

It is quite disturbing for a stranger to come up to you and say these things, which is why many think chivalry is dying when exposed to comments like this on a regular basis.

Sometimes words are not needed at all, with a variety of people simply sticking out their tongue, catcalling or making obscene gestures to imply sexual interest.

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