I didn’t have much luck Friday while wearing IO and TUTH. But Saturday, at the ball game, the girl next to me talked my ear off the second half of the game. We got to the point of trying to exchange numbers, but got separated long enough for me to get a stronger better hit.
See, after the game, we went to a bar a block away where it was packed. After being there for a few minutes, I opened some conversation with a girl sitting at the bar and she instantly responded. (A bit juvenile in her flirting, but hey, I’ll take it.)
Then we went to the patio. I saw 4 girls that were sitting just in front of us out drinking and dancing. I approached the 4 and started talking. Then the shots started happening and some mutual drink buying and I was in.
The “alpha male” friend I was with saw what I was doing and asked “Do you KNOW these girls?”
I said with a smile, “I do NOW.”
He then responded with a “good job!” and then jumped in the middle being the biggest douche I’ve ever seen. “Hi my name is…” He was a little overly handsy and touchy but they entertained him. Normally, I get a bit intimidated because he’s a better looking guy and has more of a party personality. For whatever reason, the girl I was interested in stuck with me. Maybe it was that I was more confident. Maybe she likes a funny guy over a douche. Maybe it was my new man-musk.
Whatever it was, when her friends wanted to go home, she was willing to ask me to take her home. When the bar died down and my friend dominated the conversation, hitting on both of the 2 girls that were left from the group, I thought it was all over for me. I ran out of things to small talk about but I couldn’t get in any quality questions. I was out of gas. The rest of the group I drove decided it was time to go, so I jumped at the opp and left with everyone. I dropped my friends off first, and had to kick my buddy out of the car as he was trying to give them his number. (A real great guy walking in on my set like that. Go do your own dirty work!)
I took non-interested girl back first, then the one I liked. Once everyone was out of the car, she started to warm back up. We swapped numbers, laughed a bit more and it seemed like she was wondering if I wanted to come inside.
Feeling I had a bit of an unfair advantage on her, I didn’t try for anything else. (I’m glad, I would have felt like a POS, as I found out later her grandfather had passed away the week before.) We’ve been talking online daily since.
I haven’t had what I would call overwhelming success with IO otherwise. (At work, at the gym, etc)
But if I’m able to do what I did last weekend every weekend, who cares about the other places?
I’ll be testing it at a party this weekend, and we’ll see what it does to my ex, or the girls around her. ![]()