The Best Pick-Up Lines You've Ever Heard

Or, of course, Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade:

“Do we know each other?”

“Why, do you think we’re going to? Because I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn’t possibly meet anyone else.”

“Well, if anyone goes on the critical list, let me know.”

Oh, if only life were scripted! But still, great moments – or just nice ones, or surprising ones, or dramatic ones, do happen. One long-married couple I know met when he waited on her and her parents at a New York restaurant she frequented.

“How do you feel about a waiter at your favorite restaurant asking you out?” he asked as they left.

“A little weird,” she said, not wanting to compromise her ability to go there.

“I thought you might feel that way,” he said, “which is why I just quit.”

(It’s true, sometimes these stories are only good when they work out – otherwise, he’d just have been out of a job.)

So: let’s hear yours. We all need some feel-good now and then – or at least something positive to remember when we’ve heard one too many labored negs and cat-calls. We’ll run some of the classics.