# How to make a girl feel unwanted **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2003, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168 "2003-08-14T16:05:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/41 "2003-08-15T15:25:51Z")
Dude, on second thought, you should encourage this relationship between **Garigirl** and the product supplier. After all, the _extended edition_ is coming out in November, and surely you want to be the first one on your block to get a copy. So you have to share your girlfriend for a couple of months – no biggie! ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/42 "2003-08-15T15:54:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by garius \* > \*\*I feel my reaction was justified. :eek: \*\* :eek:, indeed! I don’t think Garigirl is appreciating the magnitude of this gift. ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/43 "2003-08-15T16:45:42Z")
Just make sure that you make up for your so called “blunder” later. Let her know what a huge surprise it was and that you just weren’t in your right mind because you were already halfway to Helm’s Deep before you even got the cellophane off the case. Might have to buy her a new sexy outfit when ROTK is about to come out on DVD. You know, just in case… All this week I kept thinking TTT was coming out next week. I was so disappointed when I realised my mistake. It’s much worse than thinking it’s Friday and then finding out it’s only Thursday. Knowing you have it does not lessen the pain any. I read your other thread about the ROTK preview onthe DVD. Didn’t help either. I should have known better. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/44 "2003-08-15T21:15:14Z")
Dude, that’s pretty shitty. What that sort of exchange says to me, and I dare say to a lot of women, is that a bloody movie is more important to you than she is. Yes, it’s a truly magnificent movie, but it’s just a movie. It’ll still be there after you’ve taken care of the emotional needs of someone you claim to care about, and who has gone out of her way to do something incredibly nice for you. However, if you keep on with that sort of behavior, she might not still be there after you get done playing with the toys she was kind enough to bring you. In that sort of situation, I’d have been sorely tempted to snatch my gift out of **Dr.J** ’s hand and snap the damn thing in half. ---
**Author:** ![Creative\_Munster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Creative\_Munster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Creative_Munster)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/45 "2003-08-16T03:35:02Z")
Come on, Cat, this gal was playing the jealousy game with Garius, and he refused to take the bait. I say, “Bravo.” That shit gets old really fast. Life provides enough drama without having your significant other needlessly manufacturing some. ---
**Author:** ![MarkyDeSade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@MarkyDeSade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkyDeSade)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/46 "2003-08-16T04:59:11Z")
Heh heh… I’ve had the precious Two Towers DVD for almost six months now, thanks to a little vacation in Vietnam… Perfect quality, too. Surround sound and everything. Subtitles, the works!! 🙂 Anyway, I’ll let you get back to your discussion about whatever. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/47 "2003-08-16T05:15:19Z")
sad commentary on my marriage… I’d be thrilled to pieces if show’d that much interest in anything I brought into the house. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/48 "2003-08-16T05:22:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Juniper200 \* > \*\*\Junie, > pervy elf fancier. \*\* That was the funniest site I have _ever_ been to. Of course, I haven’t been able to watch LOTR the same way ever since. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/49 "2003-08-19T12:25:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CrazyCatLady \* > Dude, that’s pretty shitty. What that sort of exchange says to me, and I dare say to a lot of women, is that a bloody movie is more important to you than she is Not at all - she’s obviously more important to me than _any_ DVD, or football game, or computer game etc. That doesn’t mean that _occasionally_ she isn’t going to be my number one priority. I know for a fact that if i’d walked in and dropped a ticket to see Sean Bean in _Macbeth_ on her lap she’d have been out the door and on the train before i’d even got a word in. In this case, yeah, maybe i should have paid her more attention but in my defence I’m terrible at picking up on those kind of emotional cues and she knows that - and knew that before we started dating. When she told the girls she lives with later that night (Who incidentally were watching Two Towers with me 🙂 ) they giggled and asked her why she’d set me a test that she knew i’d fail. Anyway, just to add “closure” to this thread i took her out for a posh dinner the next night and all was well in the world of men again… ---
**Author:** ![brainfizz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@brainfizz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainfizz)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/50 "2003-08-19T12:50:10Z")
Garius, just saw this post… I live just down the road from you in Wood Green. Fancy nipping down with a certain dvd? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/51 "2003-08-19T14:13:50Z")
sorry mate - watched it three times then lent it to my brother! Besides, i’ve read your other thread. [sub]stay away from me and my girlfriend! ;)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![brainfizz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@brainfizz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainfizz)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/52 "2003-08-19T14:21:51Z")
😃 After that wonderful time we had in Birmingham? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168/53 "2003-08-19T14:34:19Z")
> [@](#): > > After that wonderful time we had in Birmingham? [sub]shhh - the missus will hear…[/sub] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-make-a-girl-feel-unwanted/195168.md?page=2)