The C++ Pointer Problem

A guy tells his buddy: “I met this amazing girl last night, super hot, but it didn’t work out.”
His friend asks why.
“Well, I told her I was really good with pointers and memory management. She was into it at first. But every time things got intense I’d either null pointer exception at the worst moment or cause a massive memory leak — I just couldn’t free up properly. She said dealing with me was like programming in C++: technically impressive, but way too much manual handling and one wrong move and everything crashes. Now she’s back with a Java guy who has garbage collection.”