unfortunately not a metaphor. She was standing in the grocery store when she called me to ask. A young man standing near by overhead her asking and helped her pick an onion or tried to pick her up - not really sure which. 
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Interestingly, my son once texted to ask me if, “I can be your onion,” was a good pickup line.
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Some years back, I started a thread about exactly this:
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That is hilarious! What did you tell him and did he ever try it?
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This isn’t from a college student, but an actual quote from a classmate at my elite boarding school many years ago. “What do you mean my check bounced? That’s impossible. I still have checks left.”
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My daughter is in grad school and I am pretty confident her checkbook is sitting in the drawer of a desk in her bedroom at home - and has been there since before she went to college. I am pretty sure she’d have questions if she had to write a check since I think it’s likely she has never written one.
Of course I told him if it worked on his Mom, it should work for him.
[I might have made all this up]