Like any other female with remotely visible boobs and two legs, I've been subjected to strange men's catcalls. There are the usual "hey baby" or "hi sexy"--very unoriginal and cliche, I must say. Then there are the very lewd comments, bordering on pornographic, like "I wanna **** **** ******** **** ***!" (No, those *'s don't really spell anything.)
I think the nicest random comment I got on the street occurred on a rainy day. I was walking through Times Square with my umbrella after work, brushing by the rush hour sidewalk traffic, when for a moment I made eye contact with a random man. Obviously, when you're looking straight ahead, you're bound to make eye contact with some random people. At any rate, I continued walking when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around to see it was the same gentleman I had just made eye contact with.
"Hi there," he said, "I just want to say that I just walked by you and I think you're very beautiful."
I involuntarily smiled and said, "Oh... thank you."
He shook my hand and said, "Hi, I'm Tony. May I ask what your name is?"
"Yellow Gal," I responded.
"Well, it's nice meeting you Yellow Gal. I just wanted to let you know how I felt."
"Thank you," I said. And then I smiled and continued to walk away. There was nothing more to be said. He wasn't bad looking either. But I had a boyfriend at the time. Still, it was the nicest thing a stranger has ever said to me.
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Yeah, that is nice. I wish I had the balls to walk up to random girls that I thought were beautiful and tell them what I thought.
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