# Ever pass on someone hot for a completely petty reason? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2013, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627 "2013-12-06T01:11:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_York](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_York](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_York)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/61 "2013-12-07T07:15:44Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > What makes you think no one picked up on it? What I said was “I _ **can’t** _ believe no one picked up on it” Which technically means that I can believe someone did pick up on it. Had I thought no one had picked up on it then I would have said, “Hey, no one picked up on…Blah, Blah, Blah”. Let me guess, You picked up on it? Right?. Vinyl turnip’s post was very subtle and hard to spot, so I thought I’d give him a bit of credit for it, rather than let it pass by without a comment. ---
**Author:** ![Stringbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Stringbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stringbean)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/62 "2013-12-07T07:47:37Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_York](#): > > I can’t believe that no one seemed to have picked up that these were from episodes of Sienfeld. lol, good eye, sport. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/63 "2013-12-07T08:40:44Z")
She wore sandals one day, and I could see that her second toe was longer than her big toe. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_York](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_York](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_York)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/64 "2013-12-07T10:53:50Z")
I dropped one girl after I saw she had very hairy armpits. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/65 "2013-12-07T11:42:18Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > So, I was at the gas station a little while ago, waiting in line to pay for gas. In front of me was a very good looking guy. He was wearing very nice jeans, expensive boots and had beautiful, shoulder length hair, pulled back into pony tail. I was about initiate some type of conversation with him, until I noticed that he was buying > > A 12-pack of Keystone Light. > > Yeah, I know it’s shallow. Ever do this? I don’t know if I’d consider that shallow or petty. Did you pass because of the type of beer he was buying, or because he was buying beer period? Because I’d definitely back off if I saw a guy buying alcohol. NOT fair, I know, I know…but after three relationships with guys with substance abuse problems, Nuh UH! Yeah, he could be merely having a party, or buying it for a buddy on the way home, or a dozen other reasons, but I’d have that Pavlov’s dog reaction to it just the same. ---
**Author:** ![Learjeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Learjeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Learjeff)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/66 "2013-12-07T14:02:02Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > She wore sandals one day, and I could see that her second toe was longer than her big toe. ^^^ pettiest reason yet! You win! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/67 "2013-12-07T14:02:04Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > You obviously aren’t familiar with **RO** ’s schtick. He likes to go around to threads and gratuitously mope (sometimes rather discreetly and/or indirectly) about the fact that he’s a virgin and he can’t get a woman to save his life. He’s just using this thread as an excuse to (once again) post about how he has never been with a woman. It gets rather tiresome and boring. I don’t know why you thought this would be okay to post in here, but it’s not. You use the Pit to air out any grudges you have against other members. Do not do this again or it will be a warning. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/68 "2013-12-07T15:37:20Z")
Because the slut spiked my guns on a joke. I had long thought that this was a cool, and hot, girl,and she at least kind of liked me. We interacted quite well for a few months at my workplace. So, I had recently heard the joke: “What does Ted Kennedy have that Bill Clinton wishes he had?” (This was around c. 2000). Answer: “A dead girlfriend”. So, I asked her “What…he had?” She immediately said “A dead gf”. I said, “Oh, you’ve heard it.” She said that she hadn’t. At this point, I lost all serious interest in her. She, surely, must have heard it, or else wouldn’t have responded so quickly; ergo, she was a liar, and even worse, would lie when a witticism that was in poor taste and hilarious was involved. She later tried to show me her tits, and I was uninterested. Yes, I was a deranged idiot at the time, why do you ask? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/69 "2013-12-07T15:42:21Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_York](#): > > I can’t believe that no one seemed to have picked up that these were from episodes of Sienfeld. Well, I’ll be damned. What are the odds? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/70 "2013-12-07T15:49:04Z")
I knew they were, I just didn’t have anything to say about that. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/71 "2013-12-07T19:35:26Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > I don’t know if I’d consider that shallow or petty. Did you pass because of the type of beer he was buying, or because he was buying beer period? Because I’d definitely back off if I saw a guy buying alcohol. NOT fair, I know, I know…but after three relationships with guys with substance abuse problems, Nuh UH! Yeah, he could be merely having a party, or buying it for a buddy on the way home, or a dozen other reasons, but I’d have that Pavlov’s dog reaction to it just the same. I didn’t have a problem with hiim buying alcohol/beer. The problem was that you can’t get any acceptable beer from a gas station. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/72 "2013-12-07T19:41:26Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > I didn’t have a problem with hiim buying alcohol/beer. The problem was that you can’t get any acceptable beer from a gas station. 😉 Ooooh! 🙂 Well, I’m still not sure that’s exactly petty or not. If a person is going to drink, imho, they should at least have some sort of taste re: their beverage of choice. Is Keystone like Bud or Miller or something? (I admittedly know NOTHING about beer, it all tastes nasty as hell to me). I’m still not entirely sure I’d pass on the guy, (after all, he could be aforementioned sensitive millionaire buying it for his beloved dying Uncle, or maybe he’s buying it for the dudes who are redoing his driveway, who knows?), but I’d be quite wary and would find out the reason before I gave up my number! A girl can’t be too careful ya know. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/73 "2013-12-07T19:46:20Z")
Too neat clean and perfect scares the crap out of me. Too sloppy scares me even worse. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/74 "2013-12-07T20:13:34Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > Ooooh! 🙂 Well, I’m still not sure that’s exactly petty or not. If a person is going to drink, imho, they should at least have some sort of taste re: their beverage of choice. Is Keystone like Bud or Miller or something? (I admittedly know NOTHING about beer, it all tastes nasty as hell to me). I’m still not entirely sure I’d pass on the guy, (after all, he could be aforementioned sensitive millionaire buying it for his beloved dying Uncle, or maybe he’s buying it for the dudes who are redoing his driveway, who knows?), but I’d be quite wary and would find out the reason before I gave up my number! A girl can’t be too careful ya know. All of those beers are like watered down piss. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2013, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/75 "2013-12-07T21:58:50Z")
There was this hot chick at the grocery store who was totally hot. She wanted to split my meat, tho, so I walked. ---
**Author:** ![Doggo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/87869e/32.png) [@Doggo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doggo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/76 "2013-12-08T12:59:02Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Do tell… OK. Choice between a new aquaintance, a really hot woman ( getting on really well with her ), or a not hot at all woman that I had known longer, and I picked the not hot one out of ( misplaced ) loyalty. By the time I worked out nothing was going to happen ( turned out she was a lesbian, but hadn’t come out at the time ), it was too late to pick up with the ( very ) hot woman. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/77 "2013-12-08T14:06:20Z")
It doesn’t seem as though anyone has much to regret. All this proves is that “Hotness” is just as shallow and petty an attribute as the reasons people are giving for passing it up. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/78 "2013-12-08T16:23:21Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > She wore sandals one day, and I could see that her second toe was longer than her big toe. The Greeks thought this made them _more_ attractive, compared to the Egyptians who were splay-footed from walking in the mud. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/79 "2013-12-08T16:29:33Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > The Greeks thought this made them _more_ attractive, compared to the Egyptians who were splay-footed from walking in the mud. See how that’s worked for their economy lately? :rolleyes: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627/80 "2013-12-08T16:32:11Z")
> [@Learjeff](#): > > Your Man Card is now withdrawn. Please destroy it and dispose of it responsibly. _Flag On The Play_ So you’re telling me that if your best friend is in a long term relationship with a girl where, to your & his knowledge, there are no problems… and she hits on you… its just perfectly fine for you to bend her over & do them both (their relationship and your friendship) dirty??? If the setting helps, he was a groomsman at his brothers wedding at the time and I was driving her to the reception to be his date. btw, I stand by my answer and I’m not turning in Anything. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-pass-on-someone-hot-for-a-completely-petty-reason/675627.md?page=5)