Picture this. So here I am at a Brad Paisley concert with my big sister. We're dangling our feet off the trunk of her car while waiting very impatiently for the concert to start. For the record, Brad Paisley is my favorite. He's amazing and knows his country music. He's so handsome, and his voice is like a magic carpet ride. Anyways, I digress... As we're waiting, these two boys (very intoxicated boys) come up to me. One begins to kneel down and he blurts out, "I couldn't afford a diamond, but I got you a rock." He picks up a piece of gravel and hands it to me as if proposing. Needless to say, I bursted into laughter, and I politely declined. He then continued to say, "But I'm from West Virginia..." He said this in a manor of which being from West Virginia was of high demand for the ladies these days. He started to ramble so much he was sweating profusely down his face (85 degree weather and dehydration don't mix well). After wiping off all the word vomit he threw at me, he asked what my name was. "It's Stacey," I said. His response was, "Well that's the most beautiful name I've ever heard." In these very awkward five minutes, I had three very unique, to say the least, pick-up lines thrown at me from various directions. Although I was flattered and entertained, I am happily in my own relationship. After he had given up on me, of course he moved on to the next pretty girl in the car right behind us. The only difference was her boyfriend was sitting next to her. Obviously, these two didn't last very long at that car.

Pick-up lines are a cliche people always laugh at. My girlfriends and I go online and say them back and forth mocking each one as if there existence is essentially useless.

Boy: "Did it hurt?"

Girl: "Did what hurt?"

Boy: "When you fell down from heaven, because girl you look like an angel."

What boys don't understand is that angels can fly, so technically we wouldn't have fell. We would have gracefully flew down like a Victoria Secret angel, but now you just called us clumsy. Strike one.

Boy: "Do you have a Band-Aid?"

Girl: "I don't think so, why?"

Boy: "Because, girl, I just scraped my knee falling for you."

See the problem with this one is girls want a manly man. A guy who will rub some dirt on it and say, "Did you just see me fall for you? Pretty sweet, right? Oh you mean this little deep gash gushing out blood? Nah, no Band-Aid for me, thanks." Strike two.

So before strike three, let me give you a helpful hint. Instead of trying to use the above pick-up lines to reel in a lady, try this one.

"Hi. How are you?"

So tough; I know. Masking the nervousness with a painful line isn't the only option. Just ask her how she's doing, because nine times out of ten the guys before you tried their own special rendition of the pick-up lines above, and she and her friends will be making fun of them for days to come. On a side note, ask the girl if she has a boyfriend because:

1. You don't want to be that guy.

2. Chances are the dude's not too far away.

Secretly, we like when guys try to do goofy stuff like clever pick-up lines to start a conversation, but we won't ever take the bait. We'll laugh about it, think it's cute, but we'll wait for the guy who isn't trying to win us over with something they looked up online or will use again on another girl in the future. We understand desperate times call for for desperate measures. We forgive you!