Adventures of the Blaringly Single

Musings from one girl taking life with a serious dose of humor.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Blaring Vs Glaring

When you are single you stand out. You can't help it. You can help if you a blaringly or glaringly single. It's all in the approach you take. Lets take a bar for example. It starts when you walk in. I am incredibly guilty of losing the game here. I get the deer in headlights look almost immedately and I won't lose it until I'm two sheets to the wind. And I naturally go back to glaring at three sheets. I have a very short space where I am naturally blaring instead of glaring. Anyway as you walk in you must have and appear as though you have a purpose other than being hit on. Getting drunk, talking to friends, listening to the overly loud sucky band, are all acceptable facades. Getting drunk is uaually the best bet because you know there will be alcohol, but you can't always count on friends or musical entertainment. This does present a problem if you are supposed to be the DD, which I am always relegated to.

Once you have a purpose and you are well on your way to acheiving that purpose you must engage those around you. I'm terrible at this part because I assume that if someone wants to talk to me they will come over and tell me what they want me to know. Plus I'm a terrible conversationalist with people I don't know. Engagin others is the key to getting hit on. I think it's best to start with the ones closest to you. That way the potentially more desireable ones far away will see you being freindly and realize you won't shoot them down. Then it becomes apparent wht they serve alcohol at these places. The more you drink, the more comfortable you feel wandering and conversing. Until you are hitting on someone that you wanted to hit on and they wanted to hit on you. That is if it all works correctly. If not then you have something to talk about...