1413 Green Pickup

A great woman once said staying with a man involves a little loving and a lot of understanding; living with a woman involves a lot of love and not even trying to understand. So it goes.
Men and women often see things differently—whether through different biological imperatives or different cocktails of hormones, they often filter and interpret the world in dissimilar ways.
So it’s always a little pathetic to see guys trying to come up with magic pickup lines. You’ve seen the books, “Fifty Surefire Ways to Meet Women” “Pickup lines that really work” “Things to say that guarantee you’ll score”.
Easy to sell a book to a guy if it has the word “score” in it. If only because it triggers his sports lizard brain. When you get his sports lizard with his lounge lizard watch out. The land of the sportsbar can get heady with the haze of testosterone.
Men often think the best pickup lines trade on some perceived need of their target woman. So, the “Can I buy you a drink” gambit leverages the possibilities that: a) the woman in question is thirsty and/or b) that she’s short of cash.
In the old days, when cars were less ubiquitous than they are today, the line, “Can I offer you a ride” was a little less automatically creepy than it is now.
I came upon an alternative the other day. There was a twenty-something female waiting at a bus stop. Up drove an older Subaru, it’s square back characteristically festooned with numerous stickers proclaiming environmental and social causes. The guy leaned out of the window towards the girl. I could imagine what he was saying.
“Yo, would you like to carpool and help me lower my carbon footprint?”
She got onboard.
So was that a green light?
America, ya gotta love it.