#7. Giving a fake number and them calling you while you standing there

This is a rookie mistake, taking your phone out while some creeper is trying to talk to you. They will most likely ask for your number and then they most likely will say, “let me call you so you have mine too”.

Shit.

At this point if you have given a fake number your phone won’t ring…then you have to back track and think of some excuse, “oh.. did you think I said 6 I meant 9, my bad” or ‘this isn’t my phone I’m just holding my friends’….whichever excuse you use the likelihood of them believing you is slim to none, so either man up and give them the right number or just stand there in silence until a friend or interruption comes along where you can walk away feeling like a jerk.

My sister has traumatized me with these stories, so I generally try to avoid the number hand off at all costs or I suck it up and give them the right number while secretly writing DO NOT ANSWER as the contact info… my sister however has had a number of instances where she’ll give the wrong number, they call, it’s in her hand….and then BAM, its not ringing… and there she is, standing awkwardly, knowing it’s not going to ring but praying please just let someone call you or some miracle happen where you phone miraculously goes off… the guy looks at you…you look at him with pity in your eyes… and throw out the ‘oh look at the time…gotta get home” and hope he doesn’t see you get a drink at the bar on his way out.

#3 Mistaking a dog's gender and the owner gets upset....it's like really?

As mentioned in my previous post, it’s a pretty common mistake with kids and pretty uncomfortable. However, with dogs…it’s kind of up in the air. Dogs don’t look gender specific unless they are a specific breed like poodles, which if you were confused are always girls. I’m convinced there are no boy poodles. Same can be said about bulldogs, they are always boys. Even if it is a girl I just pretend it’s a boy regardless.

Anyways beside these gender specific breeds…you just never really know if it’s a boy or a girl and honestly who cares. It gets awkward when you mistake the gender of the dog and the owner actually gets upset. You know, or you hope, they would never actually say something to you but they get tense and throw out some snide remark back like ‘how could you not know my toy Yorkshire terrier that has a purple turtleneck sweater on was a boy?!??’

Attention all dog owners: In this situation, take a step back and realize it’s a dog, they don’t care so neither should you and if I was paying that much attention to your dog’s genitalia we’d have a whole different problem.