I take your point
about it being humiliating for anyone to be rejected, and especially in a place as public as a tube carriage.

However, this was a middle-aged man and his friend, who didn't look like they were trying to get up the courage to ask me for my number so one of them could take me on a lovely romantic date. They were leering at my breasts (I wasn't wearing a low-cut top), and saying stuff like "Cor, I'd like to get my cock in between them". Loudly. Which was just plain unpleasant, and embarrassing for me. So I said "will you please be quiet", and they then swore at me. I think they actually expected me to giggle and flirt with them. Morons.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 2 May 2008, 16:39, Reply)