to think you cannot shotgun a person?

[violetpurplerain]

Girls night out last night. We bumped into another friend on his work Christmas do having drinks (there was maybe around 6 of them)

There was a guy in that group (never met him before) was really good looking, I'd had a bit to drink so was more confident than usual. Having a nice talk with him when mid-chat my friend (who had never met this guy before either) grabs my hand and pulls me away onto the dance floor and says that she wanted to get me away because she really likes this guy.

Am I wrong in thinking that just because you like someone doesn't mean you should shotgun them.

The guy gave me his number so he was interested, and if he wasn't then I would have moved on and carried on with my night.

Ladies...it's fairly rude to hijack someone's thread with car rhymes. Would you like to start another one.

lady

the thread was dead
that's all there is to be said.
fred.

I think in light of the USA news, this thread is quite insensitive.

That said, not, you can't call claim to anyone else. That is their decision to make.

Are you for real LoopsInHoops

Shotgun is a standard phrase, used by many people.

If you want to make a connection to the shootings in America then knock yourself out.

I know it is.

But I read the title thinking this thread was about something else, something in very poor taste. Just pointing that out.

Well you would see that the thread is nothing about shooting, so it is not done in very poor taste.

Get a grip.

You sound lovely.

You sound uptight.

Seriously ?

Someone is taking offence to the word shotgun being used?

that is somewhat stretching righteous indignation to the max.

So tell us about the hot guy, anyway violet. Are you meeting up?

Is 'shotgun' on the hot guy a bit like putting first dibs on him?

I thought this thread was going to be about forcing someone to marry, you know Shotgun wedding? OK I'm tired.
It's not "shotgunning", it's "calling shotgun", so she tried to call Shotgun on a guy who was interested in you.
She was rude, she could see he was interested in you, and she can't just butt in and say she wants a first dibs.
Text him and have fun. She was out of line.

< considers changing name >
Not really - ^ this is the refrain I hear every evening from my DCs when it's time to wash up.

You should have reminded her he is a person with his own mind. Swbu to believe she could call shotgun on a person. Sounds like she is a bit rude too

Hate shotgun too americanised.

But YANBU she can't baggsie a bloke especially as he was chatting you up.

You can twosie or sloppy second a bloke but that's a bit grim

She can't just claim him that's not on! How would she see it in the future too if she knew he liked you first.

The thread hijacking on this thread is ridiculous, way to isolate members.

Shotgun = wedding

Riding shotgun - passenger seat

Glad to clear that up!

March 27, 1921 issue of the Washington Post's "Magazine of Fiction," in a story entitled "The Fighting Fool" by Dane Coolidge. The opening lines are:

"Lum Martin!" shouted McMonagle, owner of the Cow Ranch saloon, waving his finger in front of Benson's face, "that's the man - Lum Martin! He's ridin' shotgun for Wells Fargo - or was until last week - and he's over in my saloon right now, playin' solitaire!"

The term "shotgun" is also used colloquially to indicate an act performed under duress, as though at gunpoint. In the 1880s we read of "elections held under the shotgun system" and in 1903 we find the first reference to "shotgun wedding," which suggests a pregnant bride and a nervous groom getting hitched at the insistence of a shotgun-wielding father. Today we use shotgun wedding figuratively, but one suspects it may have been meant literally in 1903

My sister and I were out one evening, and spotted a cute guy. We didn't call bagsies, but decided if he showed interest in one of us, the other would back off. He is now my DH! YANBU. Surely its up to the man to decide who he is interested.

See, there was me thinking this thread was going to be about bad grammar. As in, you can hold/shoot/use a shotgun, but not 'shotgun' someone. It was 'bagsie' in my day .

I know I'm missing a ' in my name :-)

I also think the title is poorly worded.

No you can't stake a claim on a person.

couldn't 'shotgun' anyone. could probably shoot them, if i had a shotgun, which i don't. and for the internet police, i don't plan on shooting anyone. i'd feel guilty and its against my religion.
but i do wear black.
and i am asd.
and i do have religious artefacts in my house.
and i am a loner.
but i'm an old white woman and we are considered 'trustworthy'.

op, ignore your friend and text the nice man. might be a cosy christmas in it for you.

I would tell your friend, that you no longer considered her your friend, for reasons of being a conniving, manipulative piece of work who didn't see other people as human beings.

But I'm a bit uptight.

But seriously, that is not nice. If I was talking to a nice man, and his friend dragged him off, and I found out that it was because Nice Man's Friend had tried to "call dibs" on me, I would not be having any interest in Nice Man's Friend, and I would have a lot to say on it. And if I found that Nice Man indulged this behaviour from his friend, I would no longer be interested in him, either.

I'm not property, and nor should men be.

I'd probably laugh in my friends face if they tried that! Who does she think she is?! He's clearly interested in you,she'll just have to live with it.