A Lovefraud reader alerted us to an audio clip on YouTube called, How not to pick up chicks.
Here’s the story, according to the person who posted the audio:
“One of my friends from work and her friend were out one night in the SF Marina district and were hanging outside of the bars trying to find a cab. One of the girls, Olga, ends up meeting this guy Dmitri and they talk for at the most two minutes. She hands him her business card and says call me.”
Here’s what our Lovefraud reader wrote:
“You should be able to hear a telephone recorded message from Dimitri to Olga. It is so telling. Only Dimitri speaks, but for anyone needing/wanting a lesson in identifying red flags this couldn’t be more perfect. For those of us who have been victimized by this pathology, it is also a lesson in really listening to what is being said. For me, a former victim, it made the hair on the back of my neck stand on end.”
I literally howled listening to the tape. Here’s the link:
Benzthere
Again, I can only wonder how one’s brain gets to this level of dysfunction and with no self comprehension that anything’s amiss. I just wish mine had been so obviously whacked.
Like listening to nails on a chalkboard!! Good example, thanks Donna.
Benz
Ox Drover
OMG!!!! I laughed until my belly cramped! “I don’t like leaving second messages”—ROTFLMAO—
I can’t believe that Olga didn’t jump at that chance to “let the romance begin”—(sound of me trying to catch my breath here, I can’t stop laughing!)
Thanks for a wonderful belly laugh today, I can’t remember laughing that hard in a long time! Whew! Made me dizzy!
alohatraveler
Whoa.
That did not make me laugh. That was very frightening.
The level of manipulation in that message brings back some bad memories.
But from where I sit today, I see it for what it is.. though this guy couldn’t be more obvious!
EMJ170ORD
I wish my S would have sounded like that; I would have never hooked up. This guy was letting the cat out of the bag before he even got started. Even if you don’t know much about S, this was worse than a car saleman trying to sell you a lemon. A time frame and no second messages – kiss my #!! – who the hell are you? Wish we all would have had someone so blunt, maybe the suffering afterwards would not be so bad.
lesley
Poor poor Dmitri!!!!!!! The last girlfriend he had, he was probably in a coma. Once he opened his mouth, it would have been all over. SeNsationally fuNNy!! Thanks.
alohatraveler
Bad Man wasn’t that bad but there were elements in the way this man was trying to manipulate the woman that were very familiar to me.
Creepy. EEeeuuuwwww. BUT it did not give me an anxiety attack. A year ago, it woul
UP YOURS PSYCHO DUDE!
Beverly
What a waste of pixels. Pathetic comes to mind. What happened to people acting natural?
hens
It wasn’t the least bit funny to me, it did give me an anxiety attack. I hope Olga learned not to give out her phone number on first contact!!!!
2good2btrue
What is un-nerving to me is that there is “one born every day”. Talk about full of himself! It would be funny if it was not so true-these are the kind I always meet.
Ox Drover
What made me LAUGH was that yes, he was so “full of himself” that any of us would immediately make a “diagnosis” and yes, he did sound like a used-lemon salesman. Today and today only,, get this special model, now I don’t usually give second chances, but “you’re special.” To US it is OBVIOUS but maybe to some love starved vulnerable potential victom it would sound like a “great deal”—-but to me it was so OBVIOUS I can’t believe he ever got the first date with that technique, but maybe he has, who knows.
I do know one thing, it doesn’t take a PhD or medical degree in psychology to diagnose that one! He is a Classic Lemon.