Monday March 15, 2004
Barfly
I feel the need to announce something….
I got hit on at a bar for the first (and second) time ever on Saturday. No one has EVER come up to me or spoken to me at a bar or club….ever….until Saturday at Sharkeez in Newport Beach.
This is despite the fact that I was the least dressed up that I have ever been when I went out. I just wore jeans and a short-sleeved shirt (which granted is a little low-cut, but still casual), and no makeup.
This leads me to believe that I only got spoken to because I was with other girls (in the past I've really only gone with other guys, and in the large group I went with Saturday, many were female). Proving this point--the first guy, a creepy older, hispanic male with a mustache (eww I HATE mustaches), was lurking around the females of our group. He was basically standing behind us and watching us dance. When one of the girls I was dancing with went to the bar, the creepy mustache man grabbed my arm to ask me my name and if I was related to the other girl. I just said "no" and quickly went to join the group at the bar.
While over there I sat with my sister and Dominic. I saw a college-age guy come out of the bathroom and he was totally gonna just walk right by us....until he saw me put my arm around my sister. Then he totally stopped, came up to me and was like "My name is Paul. I've been trying to talk to you all night."
Yea right. I never saw the guy until that moment, and he totally just wanted some hot lesbian/3-some action. He offered to buy me a drink even though I had a full drink in my hand. I politely declined, so he just walked away.
I guess the moral is that it doesn't matter what you wear to a bar/club, it's who you are with. How unspecial. It's no wonder I've always been turned off by the idea of meeting someone in such a place, they totally will just hit on any girl--especially if they if they are touching each other.
Don't worry though, Martin, it was still a lot of fun. Totally (This makes 5 uses of this word in one entry--perhaps a bit excessive, but I am amused) :)
Posted at 11:02 AM |
Yea, so I was told. Dude, what do I know, no stranger has ever offered me that before!! Besides, if I said yes, I’d feel obligated to talk to him and I doubt he was interesting (he couldn’t even come up with a good opening line). If that makes me lame, so be it!
2 | Posted by: Jennifer
on March 15, 2004 @ 11:45 AM
It’s both your faults…M you shoulda given her the “save me” code so that she gets the drink and then signals you or someone else to come over and save her — and most importantly, save the drink ;)
3 | Posted by: Kevin on March 15, 2004 @ 7:26 PMGuys also seem to hit on a girl who has a ring on her finger! I have been hit on more times since I got engaged than I ever was single and dressed up!
4 | Posted by: Colleen on March 16, 2004 @ 6:15 AM~oh…the politics, prose and misgivings of attraction…~
5 | Posted by: btezra on March 16, 2004 @ 8:39 AMFirst of all, I told you so.
That said, any guy who knows what he’s doing just skips using a pick-up line. It has to be so exceptional that it’s not worth it. He’s better off just coming up and saying that he wants to talk to you. Which he did.
The second guy seemed to have been doing everything right. Now you need to learn how to say something back.
6 | Posted by: Dre on March 16, 2004 @ 12:01 PMAnd before I forget, Colleen…
It’s pretty much common knowledge that the easiest girls to pick up are, in order from easiest to hardest:
1. Just broken up with
2. Married
3. Single
4. Has a boyfriend
5. Engaged
Unfortunately for you, it’s awfully hard to tell the difference between married and engaged, not to mention a lot of girls just wear a ring for no reason.
7 | Posted by: Dre on March 16, 2004 @ 12:03 PMAwww great, now I feel bad! Now I have to worry about what if I was totally mean to someone who just wanted to be nice and talk?? Not to mention he attempted to hit on one of the hardest categories of girl!
I’m sure I’ll get over it though. I wasn’t exactly looking to pick anyone up, so I would’ve felt bad taking his drink when I had no intention of having anything happen as a result of it.
I should think that makes me a better person than most! ;)
And Colleen, that is crazy! Although I guess if Dre’s theory is correct that it totally makes sense.
8 | Posted by: Jennifer on March 16, 2004 @ 1:14 PM
So what would be a great opening line? I’ve heard the best one so far was…
“Hello.”
*prepares to take notes*
You won’t catch me in a bar anytime soon. (read: two months!)
11 | Posted by: alan on March 16, 2004 @ 11:40 PM
