# The one that got away

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-that-got-away/541770>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 3, 2010, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-that-got-away/541770 "2010-06-03T14:30:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2010, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-that-got-away/541770/41 "2010-06-04T19:16:44Z")

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I had one get away before, so now I have two locks on the basement door.

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-that-got-away/541770/42 "2010-06-05T00:22:14Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> I have to agree with the \*\*MeanOldLady \*\*here. We aren’t talking about any sort of real interaction or relationship in any sense of the word. People are just projecting their fantasies on to some random girl they came across. Or they are ascribing too much importance to a minor and inconsequential interaction. It’s actually a little creepy.

FWIW, I agree.

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**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-that-got-away/541770/43 "2010-06-05T02:10:54Z")

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> [@LunarPlexus](#):
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> We chatted a bit, shared a last lingering gaze, and then that was that.

Ah man…the “last lingering gaze” is the worst. That brief minute wherein you both think to yourselves “if I had just made this one different choice then I’d be with him/her,” and you spend the rest of the day thinking about what might have been. I hate that.

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**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-that-got-away/541770/44 "2010-06-05T02:15:23Z")

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I remember every single day. The Nazis wore gray, you wore blue.

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