Hello, My Name Is... Episode 2

This is eposide 2 of "Hello, my name is..."  Part 1 is here.

So, years ago, I met a guy at a bar.  That's how many dating stories begin, right?  Well - let me tell you about this one.  I was at my local dive bar many years ago having drinks one weekend night with my old roommate.  She and I were enjoying our evening with some beers, conversation, and fun.  In walked a guy I didn't know, and I could see his reflection in the mirror behind the bar and I thought he was good looking, and had a cool tattoo.  Whatever, I wasn't there that night to meet a guy.

Well, the old roommate had to leave, and I stayed behind to hang out with our other friends there.  Later that night, I found myself talking to tattoo guy, and then dancing with tattoo guy, and then making out with tattoo guy.  Kind of an unexpected turn of events.  We had some fun.  Nothing more was going to come of our dance-floor make-out - he knew it, I knew it.  It was a fun night though.  The end.

Or so I thought...  Several months later, I was out with the old roommate at another neighborhood bar and in walked tattoo guy.  He came up and sat next to my roommate, looked right at me and right through me and said hello to my roommate.  He said, "Hello, my name is ..." and gave her a name that wasn't the same name as he gave me.  He was literally clueless that he'd already met me using another name.  I was flabbergasted.  Who was this guy?  What was his name?  Was he really that clueless?  Who knows.  My roommate knew who he was, and blew him off.

Hello, your name is Bye Bye.

Video games and girls

So, a friend of mine posted a little blurb on Facebook the other day that made me laugh out loud, quite literally.

So, guys - if the majority of your conversation is about playing video games, tactics for the game, and you're totally serious about it, please wake up - this is probably not conversation that is going to attract and keep around non-video game-playing-girls.  If your goal is to find a like-minded video gaming-girl, keep doing what you're doing and hunt that gamer girl down - she'll be totally awesome, as all girls are.

But if you want a girl (any kind of girl), and I'm guessing you do based on the last sentence my friend overheard, you may want to reevaluate what you are talking about and where you are putting your efforts.  Are you focusing too much on your game?  Or are you getting your head into the game - the dating game - to find the girl of your dreams?

I'm not saying that you still can't play video games, or that you still can't talk about playing video games.  But what I am saying is that if you want a girl (any type of girl), you'll have to expand your horizons some and spend some of your time actually looking for her.  Maybe you can talk about the tactics of meeting girls with your bros.  Here's an idea - think of this as a video game - to win the game you need to meet a girl, IRL.  

Talk about those tactics.

Then, execute.