Coworker: “Hey, [My Name], can I ask you something?”
Me: “Sure, what’s up?”
Coworker: “When my girlfriend says she doesn’t want anything for her birthday, what should I get her?”
Me: “Uh, I dunno, probably nothing if that’s what she said?”
Coworker: “But I know she wants something!”
Me: “I’ve never met her, so I have no idea what that would be.”
Coworker: “Well, when you tell your boyfriend you don’t want anything for your birthday, what do you expect?”
Me: “Nothing?”
Coworker: *Scoffs* “Oh, come on! You’d be pissed!”
Me: “Uh, no, I wouldn’t? I don’t play those kinds of games.”
Coworker: “Yeah, right. I’ll just go ask [Other Female Coworker].”
I realize there are women who play these games, but given how insistent he was that ALL women do it, I do wonder if his girlfriend really fell into that category.