I know you didn't ask me but
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If you approached me in a busy bus station, and I was a girl, and I shouted "fuck off you dweeb I'm not interested" and your mates heard and they started laughing! How would you react with that rejection after learning your newb material?
I'd assume she has issues. I don't think people have any basic right to display anger and hostility at a stranger's expense when the stranger hasn't really done anything to deserve it. My thought is that this is a low person, with a low mentality, and not worthy of me. My emotional response would be anywhere from pity to contempt. I might chuckle at her, roll my eyes, or say "You've gotta be kidding me." Then I would move on. This person is not worth my time.
In front of
mates I'd clown it. I could scream, "Tell me about your childhood!" at her. Wait a few beats; then, "I'm INTERESTED!!!" I'd get a shit-eating grin and bow grandiosely, mocking her and the situation. Then I'd turn away from her and make the "kung fu crane" stance ala Karate Kid to my mates. Sooo awesome! If she hit me I would laugh. If my mates cat-called me and told me I was the loser not her, I'd make the "sign of the L" on my forehead like a good little post-grunge Seattlite, purse my lips and drool a little. I'd clown this as long as it was funny. We might all die laughing. Maybe we'd all just roll around on the ground grabbing our ribs. Without an audience though, I wouldn't bother with the theatrics.
Every once in awhile I've met someone so uneducated and "ghetto," with so little upstairs, that I don't have or care to have any response at all. That's pity to the point of not even wanting to disrupt their tiny little world, because it can do them no possible good. I have a vague memory of that happening once when I was out signature gathering. It wasn't a pickup. It was just surprising and a bit socialistically upsetting that people could be that lacking and absent, that our educational system and socioeconomics in the USA are really that miserable.