Florentien van der Meulen has had a terribly traumatic dating experience. The guy she was sitting with in a crowded restaurant suddenly decided to take off his pants.
According to Radio 538 newsreader Florentien van der Meulen, who is currently back on the dating market, pick up lines completely back again. She often finds all those opening lines very bad cheesy. What does she think is one of the worst? “Do you sometimes call WiFi? I feel a very good connection with you!”
‘Something very strange’
Florentien doesn’t get hot or cold from that. “Well, I can’t imagine hooking anyone with this. Anyway, there are more… What works best is just starting a conversation with someone. Just play with your eyes a bit,” she says in the morning show of Talpa’s hit station.
It can also go horribly wrong, she candidly reveals. “I’ve had it once, when I was twenty that someone approached me. He cycled by and came cycling back and he said, ‘Oh, I really like you. Shall we go out?’ I say, “Well, okay.” I thought it was spontaneous. I thought it was very spontaneous, so we go out for dinner and then something so strange happened.”
Jeans
Then what happened? “He went to the bathroom, it was completely full that restaurant, he comes back and he walks with his jeans in his hand in his boxer shorts. Yes, serious. That is really true. I say, “What are you doing?” He went to take a piss, he comes back in his boxer shorts and his jeans in his hand!”
Florentien was completely hers by the way. “I say, ‘What are you doing? We’re in a crowded restaurant here.’ “Yeah, I thought I was done peeing and I wasn’t, so I peed my pants.”
Cross-border
Really very cross-border, says Florentien. “I say, ‘Eh, but why are you taking it off? Clean it up! You’re not going to walk around half-naked here, are you?’ Well… And we only got to the starter. Well, settled, gone. It was an exit. What a strange man this.”
Colleague Rick Romijn: “How long were you married to him?”
The rest: “Hahahahahahaha.”