Wacky plans

[pphaneuf]

Meant to write a bit more about my wacky plan of last friday night, but I was too busy to write much, or I was forgetting. Well, now that I remember and I'm unable to sleep at the moment, I'll do so before I forget for good!

After the coffee with the hyper-ryss_rhiannon, I was feeling in a bit of an "exploration of myself" mood. I wondered, if I was so cute and everything, how I'd fare picking up a random girl at a whim. Note, I've never done this, or even attempted to do this, this was being very innovative exploration for me!

So I remembered some vague comment some people had made about how I could probably "pick up" easily in the silly crowd at the Mad Hatter, if I had the inclination to, and thought this wasn't completely unreasonable (here! here! you can spot the wackiness!). Now, before some people might get offended by the idea that I might want to have anything to do with the kind of girl one could pick up at the Hatter's, I didn't necessarily intend to follow through with my picking up, this was purely an experiment!

The point is, ultimately, I didn't get faced with the decision of having to turn down sex after all.

As I was leaving, I was really reconsidering how good of an idea this was, seeing how my ego was in a rather poor state at that point, and how I just used up a perfectly good evening to get myself like that.

Now, it wasn't entirely negative, I had a surprising amount of fun, playing some foosball and pools, considering I just went by myself, to mingle with complete strangers. But overall, I just felt rather dumb by the time I got to bed, in a number of ways.

I'm still trying to figure out if I've learned something useful, there...

Comments

[jaramin.livejournal.com]

I have this idea that having success at picking up random girls might not be as much about having certain qualities or attributes, but about lacking them.

[wlach.livejournal.com]

At the very least it implies a certain level of self-confidence, which isn't a bad thing at all.

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

there's nothing easy about picking up at hatterz
anyone who told you that obviously hasn't been around there much

we're going tonight, care to test?

[chickcurious.livejournal.com]

>>I might want to have anything to do with the kind of girl one could pick up at the Hatter's.
You would probably have more luck in almost any bar besides Hatters which is not known for being a pick-up bar. Besides, what's wrong with girls who go to Hatters?

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

"Besides, what's wrong with girls who go to Hatters? "

holy christ good point eh?

[chickcurious.livejournal.com]

*preens* as a girl who goes to Hatters, i certainly think so.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Busy tonight, unfortunately... Maybe next week?

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Tut tut tut, I said (and you quoted!) "the kind of girl one could pick up at the Hatter's"! For example, I'm guessing that getting a few drinks to the bar-dancing skanks could get me somewhere, but would I really want to get there? :-)

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Like I said, the girls who only go to Hatters are fine, the potential issue is with whatever would let itself be picked up there... Hello bar-dancing skanks! :-P

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

how about you try to do something with some challenger now and try to pick up a guy at hatterz..hmm? hmm?

*smirk*

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

perhaps :) doubtful

[littlearts.livejournal.com]

Adria bar-dancing skank extraordinaire ;)

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're a bitch sometimes... :-)

You know exactly what kind of girl I mean!

[blacksquiggles.livejournal.com]

I try

*curtsies*

[jaramin.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing you replied to that : I just realized that what I said is tantamount to an insult taken in a day to day meaning. I guess being immerged in philosophical vocabulary takes it's toll (qualities as properties, for example), and being up late must have somehting to do with it too. What I meant is that being successful at picking up girls in pubs/bars might not be as much about, lets' say, being good looking, but about, let's say again, not being authentic. In which sense, not having success at picking up can be construed as a relatively good thing.

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

That's how I perceived your comment, actually. As in, not having taste or standards.

But I was more interested in other properties, such as my self-confidence, as pointed out by wlach (who's actually a philosopher!).