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I absolutely suck at knowing how exactly to use attraction switches, but I'm a musician and a ballsy dude and a lot of interesting things happen to me and I know I can use it to my advantage. Here's an example of something that happened to me (short version) that I feel like could be a fun DHV. I feel like if it actually happened to me, it will come across more powerfully as opposed to telling the story about saving my exotic dancer girlfriend from 4 dudes who were trying to kidnap her or some shit (I've done that story. It just doesn't work for me if it never happened to me).
I was in New Orleans (my hometown) for my best friend's wedding. I was a groomsman and was asked to give a toast on the spur of the moment. I had no preparation, but knew I wanted to give a speech and not just a cheesy 1 minute "how bout this guy's haircut?!?!?! good luck to the beautiful couple" toast. So I ended up talking for like 5 minutes because the best man's speech was only 15 seconds long. I felt super awkward but got more comfortable and realized about 1 minute in, the people in the back were laughing so hard they were literally in tears. I ended up telling a story that happened to me at Mardi Gras that ended up with both of us getting jumped by 7 dudes and winding up in the hospital for a few hours (but we caught the rest of the parade before we called the ambulance). (This story had significance because it was really special that when we were in the hospital, my buddy told me "dude one day at my wedding your'e gonna tell this story). Then afterwards the groom's hot sister wouldn't leave me alone, but I was like ehhhhh I can't.
Kinda stuck on that... I know there are attraction switches there (leader of men - only one to have the balls to get up and speak... preselected - groom's hot sister... protector of loved ones - I'm sure I could work one in for the "fight") but I'm not sure how to do it or how to keep it short enough to where I can say it pretty early in a set.
---Also I want to work in a DHV as to how I'm a regular around the strip that I like to sarge at, and how it's cool to be recognized and treated well but it also has downfalls because I basically get fed shots of alcohol for free when certain bartenders are working.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks fellas
personally I don't really care about the "attraction switches" in my stories. Mostly just that it doesn't have an overtly negative tone about who I am as a person [some stories I won't tell a girl. Like the time I used a fake facebook to lure this guy to a park under the impression he's there to meet some smoking hot chick, the fake facebook, only to find out I'm there instead ready to kick his ass. That story, while interesting, doesn't say many good things about my character and me as a person. It reveals that I went through the trouble to download a french girls myspace pictures and upload it to a facebook account and pose as her in order to fuck with some other guys emotions and lure him into a trap under the pretense he's getting laid. Though it does show that I'm clever and good at planning things out and critical thinking and to an extent shows I'm somewhat knowledgeable about psychology.]
So, how oh how does one tell a story?
One thing I like to do are bullet points to a story rather than scripting it. Then I think of the points and tell the story from there, Also these points help you focus on what the story is saying about you.
-Went to a bar to hang out with Mike cause he was depressed and needed a friend
-We're both wasted and his house is closest so I'm crashing there that night
-Mike pisses off girl, girl pisses off mike, mike freaks out and grabs a knife and leaves the apartment
-I can't let a friend do something that fucking stupid I follow to make sure shit doesn't get out of hand
-Discover mysterious guy attacking Mike and the girl
-I attack guy and tell Mike to go in the apartment cause of police
-Mike doesn't comply, I let guy out of sleeper and walk away, only to get clocked in the face hard enough for a cut
-I get back to apartment and get dressed and leave
-While leaving police are coming in
-At bar I'm sobering up and end up going home with the bartender cause I'm still too drunk to drive
I'm chillin' at home playing ninja gaiden when my friend Mike calls me up and says he's really depressed and at the bar. He sounds pretty down and I'm a little worried about him, he's attempted suicide before. So I tell him I'm on my way over and drive out to the bar. At the bar we're having a few drinks and he's telling me how he found out he's got a brain tumor, he's about to get evicted from his apartment and his boyfriend of 5 years broke up with him. So I do my best to cheer him up, I tell a few jokes and we talk about fun times. He's laughing and cheering up a bit but keeps ordering more and more drinks and he's going really hardcore on that. He keeps buying pitchers and sharing them with me.
So, we're both kinda trashed. I'm too trashed to drive and he's obliterated and doesn't know where his house is. We used to be room mates a while ago and I'm leading the way to his apartment. When we get there he bangs on some random door and screams "You stupid whore!!!" and I'm like "whoa, mike, calm down man." Then we get to his place and I've got my shoes kicked off, watchin' tv and we're telling jokes and he doesn't seem as depressed.
That someone bangs on his store and screams "You stupid faggot!!!" and mike has a look of murder in his eyes, get up and grabs a kitchen knife and runs out the house and I'm thinking . o O (nononono, this can't be fucking happening...) But I gotta do something about it. So I walk out the apartment and follow them and I see the knife on the ground... no blood on it. I hear three voices angrily yelling and screaming at each other. Mike's, the girls, and the third is some guy. Knife's gone so no real need to urgency, I quietly walk around the corner and see this guy punching this girl in the face and then mike in the face. Back and forth. I sprint down the hall, jump in the air, and double side kick him in the back, land and then put him in a sleeper hold.
The girl says "don't hit my boyfriend!!!' and starts attacking me. I tell mike "Hey, time to go mike, it's not that the neighbors might've called the police, they HAVE called them and it's only a matter of time." Mike stands up and starts taking shots at the guy I've got in the sleeper hold instead of leaving. I tell him again "Mike, we gotta go, NOW!" He's not listening and I don't wanna be around when the police show up. I let the guy out of the hold and as I'm turning around he punches me in the face hard and cuts me above my left eye *me pointing to the scar above my left eye*. Right here where this scar is.
But I just walked away and he goes back to attacking mike and his girlfriend. I pick up the knife on the way and put it in Mikes apartment, put on my shoes, a pair of Aviator glasses and clean up the blood off my face and put on a hat to stop the bleeding and put my hood up. I'm lookin' like the unibomber at this point. Then I leave mikes apartment and get to the stairs and I'm leaving the complex, as I'm walking out the police are walking in and I"m thinking . o O (great, they'll stop the fight and I wont get arrested for trying to help out a friend.).
I make it back to the bar and it's about 12:30 or so. The bartender asked what happened to my eye and I tell her the story and she gives me a shot of Vodka and a bandaid. I dipped a napkin in the vodka, cleaned my cut with it, put on the banaid, then drake the shot.
And me and her sit around and chat for a while and as the bar's closing I'm about to sleep in my car and sober up before I go home and she suggests I come home with her instead. So I go home with her and I'm chillin' on the couch about to go to sleep when she drags me into her room...
All in all it was a pretty crazy night.
This is one of the things I'll say when asked about the craziest shit I've done.
Personally I tend to summarize the shit out of it more so than up there, but when someone has time to listen you can flesh it out more and add more DHV. I don't know the specifics of your story, but in mine I can use the idea that Mike would call me when he's depressed as DHV showing I'm someone people call when they need cheering up. Or that I wont let a friend do something stupid like stabbing someone is a DHV. Or that I'm a quick thinker when shit hits the fan. Also the part where I'm not a homophobe and actually had a gay room mate helps DHV too.
Just write out the whole story and think of it objectively. What does this say about you? Then cut and add and remove and so on. e.g. I lied a bit in that story. I never actually drove, I walked 8 miles to hang out with old friends and it started raining hardcore and I wasn't going to walk 8 miles back home in the rain so I went to a bar I used to frequent to see if I could find someone I knew and crash at their place. That's a bit of a DLV there, so I change it to Mike called me up and I drove.
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