Now I am usually pretty fucking good at the game, even though I am not much of a "dating" type of guy, but being myself usually works the way it is supposed to - i.e. you work out whether who you are with is really worth moving on with.
I ONLY take girls on dates that I already KNOW I really like, and there may be something there, so it does not happen very often at all.
Now, NOT being yourself is fraught with danger, AND usually does NOT end well.
I took a lovely young lady for dinner on Friday last, and had been looking forward to it for several days.
Booked the best Japanese Restaurant in these parts, picked her up (as a gentleman does), on-time, and happily waited the 10 minutes time or so she was late and then we arrived. Early.
Sauntered into a bar to have a pre-dinner beverage, and I asked what whe would like to drink....
She said for me to order first, she was thinking.
So, wanting to seem a little classy and refined, I ordered a
Grey Goose, extra dirty. NOTE, I am NOT known for drinking martinis, EVER. Idiot.
Barman looked at me
No Grey Goose mate.
Make it Belvedere.
No Belvedere mate.
Level 42 ?
Nope, we have Absolut or Smirnoff only mate
So 3 times I went to bat as an absolute wanker and 3 times I swung the bat and missed, even while the whole time knowing I was acting like a total tool.
So I said,
"I cannot believe I have just tried 3 times to be a dickhead and succeeded brilliantly each time, give me a glass of water, it's all I deserve."
To wit my companion burst out laughing and the guy behind the bar chuckled and said,
"It's OK mate, you did it bloody well" and proceeded to make me an Absolut "Extra Dirty" on the house.
Now LUCKILY for me, "going public", and the fact that when we joined the queue for the restaurant, some moron in front of us said to his friend
"Get me hamburger will ya, I gotta go do a piss". before stumbling off, DID help me recover somewhat.
Nothing like some numbnut doing that in one of the best Japanese Restaurants around !!! Thank god for most other men - it makes it SO easy to shine.
Anyway, I got over the faux pas and things went VERY well.
This one will get a second date, and maybe even a third or more
So how have you screwed or nearly screwed things up ?
