My hint is: don't hint
I don't even know if I have any decent stories for this week.

When it isn't working I say: "Look, it isn't working, can it be made better? No? Okay, let's call it all off".

When they say the same, or drop hints to the same, I think: "Oh ok, I have some dignity, I'll walk away and not make his life hell".

I'm friends with the majority of my ex-blokes. I liked them enough to be with them in the first place. The others were cunts.

I don't have one-night-stands, I don't play mind-games and I'm completely open about what's going on in my head. Bizarrely, in some fellas' eyes that makes me all sorts of evil.

Fuck me, I'm well-adjusted.

( crackhouseceilidhband I'd sell your heart to the junkman baby for a buck, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 10:56, closed)

^ Is that last line
an offer?
( K2k6 is having Christmas issues, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 10:57, closed)

send in a CV
short-listing will take place next Thursday.
( crackhouseceilidhband I'd sell your heart to the junkman baby for a buck, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 10:58, closed)

Wouldn't Wednesday be better?
It might save you downloading porn or straining your imagination...
(Belgaer is, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 11:01, closed)

*sends a knife and a pair of cable ties*
And a note, saying "Please find my CV enclosed.
Best Regards,
Kaol McWilkins"
( Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 11:02, closed)

strain my imagination?
No chance!

@Kaol "fast fingers" McWilkins - smooth.
( crackhouseceilidhband I'd sell your heart to the junkman baby for a buck, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 11:02, closed)

@Kaol
If your tongue's as fast as your fingers, and going by the epic flirt I spotted last night it's mercury silver, how are you possibly single?
(Boss Keloid Has 16 days off! Wooo!, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 11:08, closed)

With psychos
And I speak from experience, being open and honest doesn't work. I have said 'this isn;t working' thing as clear as day.. and had people banging on my windows telling me I'll 'regret it' for weeks.

I feel a I may have a few stories for this QOTW - but thankfully my new shiny happy self won;t get into any of *those* messes anymore.
( ancrenne doesn't eat anything that can play video games, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 11:10, closed)

yeah
there have been psychos. Like the stalky one with the gun... They're the ones whose number you keep in your phone because it might help the police as evidence.
( crackhouseceilidhband I'd sell your heart to the junkman baby for a buck, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 11:13, closed)

.
"I'm friends with the majority of my ex-blokes. I liked them enough to be with them in the first place."
"I don't play mind-games and I'm completely open about what's going on in my head."

THIS and a thousand times this!

* starts working on 3D rendered CV *
( mistaspakkaman is just a little boy who likes to press buttons., Thu 5 Jun 2008, 11:26, closed)

@ Boss
"If your tongue's as fast as your fingers, and going by the epic flirt I spotted last night it's mercury silver, how are you possibly single?"

Because I'm cripplingly ugly :p
( Cawl - King Of Wales, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 11:47, closed)

^
What she said up the top there.

Yes. Mind-games are mean*. If I like you I will tell you. If I don't then I will tell you that too but in a nice way that will make you hate me for being too nice to hate for dumping you in a bad way.

Sex games are fun
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 11:48, closed)

^
heh heh, yes, that! Hate me because I'm so nice, dammit!
( crackhouseceilidhband I'd sell your heart to the junkman baby for a buck, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 11:50, closed)

.
"If I don't then I will tell you that too but in a nice way that will make you hate me for being too nice to hate for dumping you in a bad way."

If you don't want to be dumped (or are turned down), it's going to hurt you regardless so they've got the impossible task of not causing pain. If they really care, they'll find themselves in a no-win situation. I've learned to respect anyone who speaks their mind in such matters regardless of how numb I end up feeling inside.
( mistaspakkaman is just a little boy who likes to press buttons., Thu 5 Jun 2008, 12:16, closed)

^precisely
No one wants to hear that they're being dumped, just as no one wants to be the dumper either. They both suck in different ways. Being direct and unambiguous is the only sensible path through it.
( crackhouseceilidhband I'd sell your heart to the junkman baby for a buck, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 12:25, closed)

hot damn..
I wish my fiancee's ex was more like you! She doesn't appear to have the 'Oh ok, I'll walk away and not make his life hell' sentence in her vocabulary. Psycho bitch.. *bitter rant*
(darras jeg har en grevling i hodet. Grevling, grevlang, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 12:41, closed)

Sadly it seems to be too much to ask...
...that everyone be like this.

Have a click for being a decent human being though.
(peteShaped, Thu 5 Jun 2008, 14:04, closed)

If I hadn't recently aquired a girlfriend *
You'd be receiving my CV embossed on gold leaf. Luckily for my wallet, I'm very happy. **

Edit: It's not gold-embossed, but have a click!

* Sorry for rubbing it in to anyone who's single and doesn't want to be

** Really, really sorry
(ZoFreX is cleaner than smoked trout, Sat 7 Jun 2008, 4:31, closed)

Agreed
there's not many of us around but it pisses me off that some girls spoil the good men for us!

i don't see the point in messing round or playing games or any of that shite but i see so many nice blokes taken in a living with all that crap and it sucks!
(miss.spanky.pants .. is looking for a handsome prince..., Tue 10 Jun 2008, 17:03, closed)