Years ago, when I had a jewelry store, a young college student came in. He was doing a paper for some class about picking up girls and bedding them. I didn't believe him for a minute, but played along. He bought 3 sterling silver rings with a simulated diamond in each so they looked exactly like an engagement ring. I had to put each ring in a nice felt ring box to look like it was expensive. Each week for almost a year he came in and bought the same thing, 100 of them in all.
After I got to know him, he finally told me what he was doing with them. 3 nights a week Wed. Fri. and Sun. he would go to a different bar in Manhattan, and Westchester county (he lived on L.I.) and would go in, look for a nice looking girl, either alone or with girlfriends, wait to get a seat or ask her to dance.
They'd start to talk and he'd come out with this story that he just broke up with his girlfriend, after he asked her to marry him, and showed the girl the ring. she'd look at it, (they did look REAL GOOD!) and then he would say " Damn, I'm not going to need this anymore,and he'd say, let me see if it fits you, and slip it on her finger. She'd look at it all glassy eyed, and he'd say, "IT's yours, and give her a kiss on her cheek.
Long story short, out of 100 girl's he tried it with, he SCORED with 88 of them!!!!!!
He got an A on his paper, but said the real bad part was he could never go back to those bars`again, and would hate to see what happened when that girl went to have the ring appraised. She had given it up for a $10 ring!
TRUE STORY!!!! You just can't make that chit up!