Bar Tales
I’m not too sure I want to tell this story… but I am going to anyway.
Last night, I was out for pint night with Jarrod and a few other guys. I was on my typical Pint night mission of finding a lady to chat with (well I’m looking for more than a chat, but you gotta start somewhere.) We are having a grand old time watching the ladies walk by and assessing the possibilities of each… Let me Clarify something real quick, I m sitting at the table with Jarrod who has a new girlfriend, (I guess they don’t define themselves as boyfriend/girlfriend, they decided in the term “Relatively Permanent Fuck-Buddies.” Don’t ask me, that’s whet he told me..) and two other guys that were married already, so everyone at the table was on the lookout for me. On the scope for any obviously single ladies or the “glance” over to our table of four pretty damn good looking guys (I’m not really modest at all, and can’t be in that situation, gotta have the confidence!)
First catch, a table of three, they looked to me to be a bit out of my league (by choice not skill, huh yea right.) just a little bit of that liquid courage, and a few fairly obvious glances over here I was just about ready to make the move. Hey, they may be out of my league, but the story of the shoot down could be worth it, and you can’t deny the possibility of it actually working! Anyway, I am just about to walk over there (I’ve been just about to walk over there for about 15 Min now) when they stand up and invite the table of 2 guys next to them over to their table. Bummer, missed my chance, but this could be just as entertaining to watch, I mean they can’t last long… they are still wearing their sunglasses! The sun went down 6 hours ago man! I could go for awhile describing the good time we had watching that situation unfold, but that’s not this story (just incase you are wondering… they didn't survive…) Well, That was strike one for my evening. I didn't even leave the table, so I’m not sure that counts as an attempt though.
Round two!
There are three girls that have been wandering around for a few minutes and have begun to stand around. One of them leaves and sits down at a normal Durango bar table with 15 guys with sideways hats. The other two head to the bar and sit down by themselves and begin sharing a beer. I though for sure I was in on this one. I got up and promptly began a conversation with them. I can never seem to remember any of the conversation though but it didn't go well, 5 minutes later I was back at our table discussion the failure with the guys.
Round three!
An uncommonly attractive (to me anyway) young lady was buying a drink at the bar. I began to watch to see where she sat down and to make sure that there was no guy with her somewhere else in the bar. She walks by the sideways hat guy table and begins talking to one of them. Pshht why do girls go for that, I don’t know. Well, she must have know just that one guy because she was no longer there and was clearly scoping for someone tot talk to. I watched her do a lap and settle for a secluded spot alone. Perfect! I’ve got to attempt this one, off I go. She had been standing in that spot for a good minute or so, so I was confident that she was there by herself. Im moving in… just a few more steps then some words, I don’t know what words yet but I’m sure ill think of something (I was on the pre-defined plan B: Wing it! Given that Plan A: the premeditated conversation during the walk over always fails.) As I approach, she must have decided that nobody was coming to talk to her because she began to move again, right past me, that caught me off guard and I didn't have time to come up with a good Plan C. Arrgh! She sat down with the sideways hat tools! She was obviously looking for conversation and I was 2 seconds too late! She had to settle for those guys! Granted, it was probably a win-win situation for her, she probably knew that they would buy her drinks all night! Ugh Strike 3 for me, I guess I’m out.
Nope!
Round Four!
A rare sight in Durango to say the least, there was a table of 6 girls and one lucky guy sitting in one of the booths off to our left. That one is going to take some effort and confidence that I don’t really have right now. I have already failed on multiple attempts and I was about to jump into the lions den. That fear didn't last long as one of the girls stood up, walked directly to out table and asked us to help her win a bet. The bet was that she could not get one of the guys over here to buy all the ladies a round of drinks. So I, being the single one at the table, took her up on that, and sat down with them. Luckily it is Pint night and everything is $2, so $15 later I had 6 girls to talk to and 7 full beers. Turns out they are all on a soccer team together and that guy was just one of their roommates. Unfortunately they were all VERY drunk and the conversation was very hard to maintain. Suddenly it was time to leave and I got nothing out of it. That one seemed so easy to me, like bobbing for apples, but these apples just kept sinking as I try to grab one. Well at least they all got a free beer out of it. I feel so used.
That’s it, My confidence was holding on by a thin thread and it just snapped, time to go home with my tail between my legs.
There is always next time.
10 Comments:
I think blogging your sexual adventures might be a bad idea. Durango is is a small town and lord knows what people read. Than again, Only a small % of people in Durango even use it the interwebs, so you might be safe.
Ahhh phooey. It's harmless.
Chicks must be pretty hot in Colorado... The last time we had THAT many attractive girls in one bar was... um... the last time a group from Colorado stopped in!!!
Keep it up, J! You'll hook a good one eventually!
Anon... There is nothing sexual about this whole post! The chances of anyone that was invovled in this story actually reading this are very slim... Also not one name or definig detail was revieled.
But I do completely understand the small town thing that is why it is hard to hit on anyone.. because you are bound to run into them again!
So, this is a regular, "pint night" task for you, Justin? ;) And, just to think...I thought it was simply a "Random" occurrence when I was in town.
The last time we had THAT many attractive girls in one bar was... um... the last time a group from Colorado stopped in!!!
Then apparently you've been going to the wrong bars.
Justin, it takes a strong pair to walk right up to girls like that, I commend you. Also, posting this takes guts, and not because it's unsafe to put on the internet.
Danica: This is a task in general... But it is a random set of variables that actually allows me to do it. It is pretty rare I have the courage and motivation to do something like this, and it usually involves $2 Pints of Smithwicks!
Kate: Thanks! I find it hard to write about it because you realize just how silly some of the things you do and say are. Thats OK, its what makes for a good read I think, Right?!
"and it usually involves $2 Pints of Smithwicks!"
Wait! You have Smithwicks down there?!?!?! I am now considering coming down for Thanksgiving SO much more.
Amber: Heck yea we do! For sure my favorite.. we have it on tap no less!
Im sure we could arrange a tasting if you came down. :-)
I would love to have you here for the awesome thanksgiving, now at my house! come to think of it I think I wrote one of my fist Blog post about last years. Yup here it is! It seem that it was my second ever post!
I give you mad props man. Once you're out of college, it's darn near impossible to catch a girl. And even if you do, it entails endless hours of failed attempts and humiliation. I think you handled it very well. You've got more courage and self-confidence than I'll ever have. And if you're trying to look on the bright side, every time you fail, it makes it statistically less likely that you'll fail the next time around. You'll hit the jackpot someday, and when you do, that girl will be very lucky cause I'm sure you'll treat her right. Good luck.
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