Boyfriend Drop is a common technique performed by hot girls and gay men everywhere.
The term refers to the subtle and carefully timed act of inserting the fact that you have a boyfriend into a conversation with anyone who potentially thinks they have a shot at picking you up. Typically, the boyfriend drop is only used when a woman is talking to an incredibly ugly guy, or a man who is a total douche bag.
A conversation might go something like this:
“Hey Cassandra, you want me to rub that lotion on your back so you don’t get a sun burn?” asked Joey Douche Bag as he flexed his abs.
“Um…sure…I guess that’s a good idea. I mean, my BOYFRIEND did get a pretty bad sunburn yesterday, so you can’t be too careful,” replied Cassandra nervously.
With any luck, Joey Douche Bag will be moving on down the beach with his bicep flexed and a tube of Sun Block in his hand without even opening the cap for Cassandra. This type of conversation also occurs frequently at campfires when a really annoying emo kid tries to play a sappy “panty soaker” song on an acoustic guitar to impress the cheerleader girl from his school sitting next to him. After belting out the lyrics to a Dashboard Confessional song for twenty minutes straight, off key, with the capo on the wrong fret, and two broken strings, the hot girl will finally interrupts him by saying,
“Wow, that’s really good. My BOYFRIEND listens to that song all the time. You should play it for him sometime.”
That emo kid will be back at his parents house on the front porch smoking a cigarette and trying to keep the tears from dropping onto his diary as he writes his own song about how guys like him never get the girl (Don’t worry Emo kid, when you grow up and go to college, you’ll get the guy every time, once you realize a few things about yourself).
Rarely do women every use the boyfriend drop when they are speaking to a total stud, even if they do in fact have a boyfriend. Instead, they do the “boyfriend blank,” in which every time they come to a part in the conversation where they would normally mention their boyfriend, they instead pause for a split second, their brain goes on auto pilot, and they neglect to mention him. Sometimes, it’s not even intentional; it’s a Darwinian thing I believe, where the female is constantly seeking out the fittest male partner available to them. Sadly, it’s rarely the actual boyfriend.
1. The babysitter tried to do the boyfriend drop several times while discussing her wages with Uncle Herb. Of course, he was hitting on a minor, so he didn’t really give a shit if she had a boyfriend.
2. Whenever a girl does the boyfriend drop on me at a bar, I always give her the “I’m gay drop” and make her feel ridiculous. That way, she’ll spend the rest of the night giggling and cuddling up to me because she thinks I’m harmless. It’s not as good as getting laid, but at least I’ll have some good material for my spank bank when I get home.
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