pick up paper
an anecdote:
i was out the other night with a friend of the male persuasion (who shall remain unnamed and unlinked for purposes of discussion, though many of you in DC in the LOOP will know him; ha ha, make note to remind self to pat self on back for being so clever) and we were grabbing a few drinks at a bar. this friend is an engaging conversationalist, so as we were sitting at our little table we were having a good time, laughing, chatting and drinking it up. the bar was fairly crowded, but we didn't really know anyone else there very well and weren't making an extroverted overtures towards anyone else or anything. partway through the evening, i excused myself to go to the bathroom.
when i returned, said male friend was bemusedly holding a scrap of paper in his hand. he told me that while i had been in the bathroom, a woman had dashed over to the table as he was sipping at his beer, handed him this scrap of paper, said, "here, i think you dropped this," and dashed away so quickly that he almost wasn't even sure what she looked like.
the scrap of paper? a name and a number. the next 15 minutes? we spent pondering whether someone else had actually dropped this scrap of paper, or whether this was a very roundabout way of picking up said male friend.
emboldened by beer, and the fact that though we had been staring pointedly at the woman for several minutes while she studiously avoided even glancing our way, said male friend walked over and chatted the lady up.
turns out, it was a pickup strategy. any results that might be forthcoming aside, my questions are thus: 1. is this a smart or stupid method? would everyone involved not have been better served if she had been a little more direct? 2. THE HELL? WE VERY WELL COULD HAVE BEEN ON A DATE. in fact, i think she thought we were. if i remember correctly she said something to said male friend along the lines of "....well, i wanted you to have my number just in case your date wasn't going well..." let's leave aside the fact that a) i am enormously cute and witty and no date with me could ever go badly b) uh, we weren't actually on a date so i have no right to be offended, am i wrong to, um, feel a little bit offended? that's an awfully ballsy move, considering a guy could be out with a date or girlfriend. i simply can't decide if it was good ballsy or bad ballsy. i guess if they get married and have little ballsy babies, it will have been a good one.
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Wasn't there a Seinfeld episode where Jerry was all hurt that someone assumed he wasn't on a date with his lunch companion, even though he was not, in fact, on a date with his lunch companion?
Given that she assumed you were his date, I think it was a pretty ballsy move. Originally I was thinking "good ballsy" but over the course of writing this comment I've changed my mind. Bad ballsy.
It was mean and presumptuous to think his (fake) date with YOU was not going well (impossible!). But I guess that's called confidence. If I were a guy and someone did that to me, I guess I would think it was good ballsy. And it'll be a great "how we met story" to tell their grandkids.
Yeah, I don't think we're gonna have little balsy babies. I think that number is getting posted to the frige and used as a conversation piece, nothing more.
depending on how many drink i'd had up to that point, i might have gone over and confronted her, like Jerry did in that Seinfeld episode. bitch.
W-H-A-C-K
That's all I have to say about this situation.
honestly, I think she just read your body language correctly.
but she did think we were on a date...
To clarify, she said she thought it was a date - didn't know, just thought. I suppose she thought there was a chance that it wasn't.
ah, ok. with that clarification, i am not as fake/real offended as previously.
Whether good or bad ballsy, as with all pick-up moves, in all honesty, it probably depends on how attractive she is. Sad to say.
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