WHAT AM I, CHOPLIVER? A reporter was having coffee with her friends in an uptown mall when a male source suddenly turned up unannounced and joined them uninvited. It was when the source started flirting with her that she discreetly texted her boyfriend to show up and “evict” the unwanted guest from the table. But imagine her surprise when her boyfriend arrived and the source abandoned her and started flirting with him instead! After the source eventually bid them goodbye she told her friends she did not know whether to be amused or angered by the incident.
BAD PICK-UP LINE. A fresh grad who works in a call center told an Ear source one of the first friends he made in the industry was a teammate who seemed to like everything he did; sports, movies, cars and games. They hung out together after work a lot he did not notice anything different with his buddy until the day his buddy asked him if he could “pick him up” which is accepted as a slang for taking someone home for sex. He said he let his buddy down gently and decided not to hang out with him anymore. The weird thing, he said, is whenever he and his buddy cross each other’s path the buddy greets him and acts like nothing ever happened.