Since high school is such a joke, I am going to log all of the excuses I have gotten from males, and their translations:
Line: "I am not as cool as you think I am. I really am not ready for a girlfriend. I only have two friends and I don't really hang out with anyone else. I don't know you very well and it would be weird. I spend all my time on the newspaper. Hanging out with you would be UNLIKELY. I think we're very different." Translation: "I have to think of seven different excuses to cover up the fact that I don't find you attractive, I can't manipulate you for ass, hanging out with you would lower my social status and I am scared of you. There's also a 55% chance that I am gay, because I'm too pretty to be straight." My Response to "I think we're very different": "I think you're full of shit." Line: "I have to study for my bio test, and I have band practice, and then I have band practice, and then I have to study for my bio test, and then I have band practice and then I have to pull up my grades for this whole semester." Translation: "I am a senior and I obviously am a social-climber. If I hung out with you, I would get scared and my social status would go down and I wouldn't get ass." My Response (another day): "How's 'band practice'? What a brilliant excuse. Couldn't you have been a little more creative?"