| Southcoast and Beat It! (Sunday Dec 16, 2007):
**I posted this before but it disappeared off the forum!!!***
Cast of Characters:
~Yenwen
~Jack
~Status
~King Kong (Met us at Yenwens for Night Game)
~Chubby Chaser (Met us at Yenwens for Night Game)
~Jackett (Met us at Yenwens for Night Game, but had to bail early.)
~Me
I had just thrown my clothes in the washer when I got the daily phone call. It was Yenwen, and he was calling to invite me for some day game.
“Ahh, I just started to do my laundry. Give me like an hour and a half.” I told him. They wanted to go to Southcoast Plaza in Coasta Mesa. Sounded good, I hadn’t been there since high school.
I ended up being pretty late because something happened to the washing machine, and I had to redo my entire load of laundry. Oh well. I was meeting Yenwen, Status, and Jack. On the way in I just opened random people and hired guns with stupid questions to get in the mood, and found out where I could meet up with the guys.
Once I finally met my companions, Starbucks cups in their hands, we got moving. We stopped by a bunch of shops to look for new things we could wear out, but didn’t really open any sets. Jack did get an awesome ride in a Red Flyer across the bridge from some chick though! Very nice! Status picked up a sick pair of gloves, which he used to open just about every HB we saw for the rest of our time at the mall. Also very nice! Meanwhile, we’re sitting around trying to figure out what to do with the night, when we decide to just call for a meet up at Yenwen's around 9. We split ways to change, and head to Matt’s house.
When I arrive, it turns out that Chubby Chaser, Jackett, and Kong decided to meet us tonight too. Awesome. It takes us about an hour to decide where we’re going, which turns out to be Beat It! They’re playing 80’s music all night, which sounds great to us because we’re just happy to have somewhere to go play.
I walk up to the front doors with the guys, where Mr. Bouncer firmly grabs both of my ass cheeks during the frisk. Whatever. I head inside and find out that because we came after ten o’clock, the cover is 15$! “Oh well” I said out loud as I traded the girl at the counter my Andrew Jackson for her Abraham Lincoln. I put good old Abe in my wallet with his only new friend George Washington, and finally make my entrance into the club.
Mmm, I’m in Out-of-State-City as are a few of the other guys, so Jack and I head out to the smoker’s patio to procrastinate, and see how it is. Jack and I are standing out there when he taps me with his elbow and points out this chick in red who just happens to be eye-fucking us. I think we both logged that one in our memory for later.
We head inside, where we meet up with the rest of the guys. I think that’s when we got onstage for a bit and danced to some cool 80’s music. That broke up, and I meet Kong and Chubby Chaser off the dance floor. They are really trying to get me to approach, but I was hitting some pretty big AA. Finally they just say “Ok dude, two-set at the bar. Go. Now.” Those were like the magic words, and I just went for it. As soon as I started walking I wasn’t nervous at all.
HBGrabbyHands(8.0) and HBPlatinumBlonde(8.0):
*Walked just past them with purpose, stop, and cast a second-thoughtlike glance over my right shoulder. I moved in one HBGH’s right side*
Muse: “Hey guys, what’s up?”
HB’s: *Big Smiles* “Hi!”
M: *Reposition to better open* I’ve got a question for you two. What do you think of my scarf? (It was my first time wearing a scarf EVER, so this became my opener tonight) Does it make me look gay?
HBGH: *Wide Eyed* “No! Not at all, you look hot in it! It looks so hot on you!” *HBPB chimes in with something similar and they both start playing with my scarf, wrapping it around my neck and whatnot.*
M: *Locking in to the set at the bar* Oh cool, well thanks! I only ask because I was at Starbucks the other day, and as I was leaving, this guy I didn’t even know came up to me. I started to wonder if I knew him or not, when all of the sudden he totally grabbed my scarf and told me I looked sexy in it! It took me a minute to get over the shock, but I just said thanks and tried to get out of there. So you two think I pull it off well, then huh?
HBPB: Totally, you should wear it all the time.
M: Alright, awesome. So what’s your story, guys fill me in! (Grabbing at straws…Here it comes!)
HBPH: Hahaha! Oh man, so that was totally your pickup line wasn’t it?(Ouch)
HBGH: Yeah it was.
M: Ha! I don’t think so, you guys were the ones pulling on my scarf, I should have charged you for it. Hey my friends are over there, but it was a pleasure meeting you two.(Yikes! I had no idea how to handle that!)
HB’s: Yeah you too.
*Ejected that shit as fast as I could! Talk about shit-test failure. I went over how to fix that with Kong and the guys outside. I’ll do better if that ever happens again!*
Ok, so I botched that set, no big deal. I was feeling a lot better now that I had at least approached. Kong tells me he wants to pump my state, and walks me over to the hip-hop room where the guys are jumping in a big circle. He shoves me into the middle when the guys and I start going crazy jumping around, having an awesome time. I notice the AI’s and eye contact I’m getting from a couple HB's while I’m in the circle and decide Jack is next for the Social Proof, so I bring him in.
The guys are all having a great time, and by now I was pumped beyond belief! I immediately marched right over to a four set near the wall and gave them my scarf opener. They were pretty receptive to it, one told me the scarf wasn’t really her style, so I gave her shit for that because her three friends loved it. We shoot the breeze for just a minute or two, and I start to grab at straws again for conversation. “Time to eject!” I thought to myself. Told them it was a pleasure meeting them and shot over to the smoker’s patio.
I’m standing around just having a good time with Jack and Chubby Chaser, when I notice this HB6.5 from my peripheral vision. She’s dancing slowly away from her group, moving closer and closer to us, until she’s practically in our circle. I think we kind of ignored her, until Jack and Chubby Chaser open her with something about dancing:
HB: No no, you can’t dance fast like that. This is slow dance (I donno, some bullshit about how she had to dance slowly).
HB: So You guys enjoying your Cancer(referring to mine and Jack’s cigarettes).
Muse: Yup. It’s good for you.
*Someone said something here that provoked me to this*:
M: Yeah, I can already tell you’re not a nice girl. You’re a troublemaker.
HB: No! I’m not, I swear I’m the nicest person you’ll ever meet! You should know, because you’re a nice person. I know you are, you’re a good guy! And *puts her hand on my upper arm* you’re like really like a good-looking guy. You’re just handsome, you’re cute, you know? *she moves her body in real close to me*
M: Haha, oh well thank you! You’re right that is nice of you, maybe I was wrong about you. But I think you still have some proving to do.
I donno what happened here, but suddenly I just really, really didn’t feel like talking to this broad anymore. Looking back now, the IOI’s were there for a K-close right off the bat, but I think I have a problem with how try-hard she seemed. Compliments are nice, but I want to feel like I earned them rather than get them for my looks or whatever. She had a nice rack and a nice face; the body did leave a little to be desired, though she wasn’t carrying TOO many extra pounds. It was a nice little ego-booster though! haha.
“Well it was nice talking with you, see you inside on the dance floor.” I told her as I politely ejected myself.
A little later on we’re heading back to the hip-hop room’s dance floor, dancing the whole way in as we swim past the crowd. A couple of chicks are totally digging us dancing and how high energy we are. They’re going crazy for Jack and Chubby Chaser as we pass, and one of the girls grabbed my arm and squeezed my left ass cheek as I passed! I didn’t go for the approach, since I turned around to look at her and saw the BF shooting me daggers with his eyes. (This dude was built like a refrigerator and looked as scary as that sounds).
I opened another set or two, but like the others they were just practice. No real expectations from me, just working on managing that AA and keeping the conversation going. Outside later on the smoker’s patio I had probably my best set of the night.
Here’s the scene, Yenwen had already taken off, but we found a PUA named D in the club who some of us met last time they were there. D is a cool guy, and has some great ideas for dance floor game. I’m not sure how it happened, but we all ended up singing a very loud, energetic version of Happy Birthday to a girl he was gaming. She was so embarrassed, especially because a lot of the other people in the patio got into it too! We were the party! He might be joining us on Wednesday at Matt’s place for our meeting too.
Anyway, all six of us are standing around talking game and about how much fun we’re having when Chubby Chaser noticed HBRedTop eye fucking our group again. He decides he’s going to approach, when HBRT and her group move from the far left side of the patio all the way over to the right side of the patio(but a little closer to us.) Wait, no, that spot’s no good for them either, so they move EVEN CLOSER! Now they’re directly across from our group, and HBRT asks for a light. No way, I saw them earlier have a lighter. Dude, she’s approaching US:
Mixed Three Set HBRedTop(7) HBCrazyEarrings (7) and Gay Guy Friend:
Muse: Yeah, I’ve got a lighter. * I hand it to her, and give her an accusing glance* You’re not a thief are you?
HBRT: NO! I’m no thief!
M: Oh ok, good. I had to make sure, because I love that lighter and I wouldn’t want some strange girls taking off with it!
HBRT: Oh don’t worry, I’m not a thief. *She admires the lighter briefly and hands it back*
M: *Turns to GGF to win him over* Ok, I have a question for you. I’d love an opinion on something, and you know. . . I GUESS it’s ok for your friends to give me theirs too.
Set: Alright!
M: Ok so *Deliver Scarf opener with great results. We talked about that for awhile actually and I decided I needed a wing or two to help me pick it up*
M: We’re making it a party out here, come join our group! *I tell the guys they have to meet my new friends, and introductions go around. D and Nick come in to wing for me* You should have seen it earlier, D brought his friend out here to the patio because he found out it was her birthday. We sang her Happy Birthday and got everyone into it! We like to make it a party wherever we go.
D: Yeah, she had a good time, but she was so embarrassed by it though. What would you guys do if a bunch of people you barely knew started singing happy birthday to you?
HBRT: Oh, I would love it!
HBCE: Me too!
M: Oh I see, so you two love the spotlight. I see how it is, you like all the attention!
Girls: Oh of course!
*D distracts the obstacles while I talk to HBRT for a minute, and Chubby Chaser comes in*
CC: So Muse, you figured out who the bad one is yet?
M: Oh totally! I already know, She’s the bad one *points to HBRT* She’s the good one *Points to HBCE* and He’s awesome *points to GGF*
HBRT: Why am I the bad one?
M: I just know you are, I can tell.
HBCE: You’re right, she is the bad one!
HBRT: Yeah I am actually.
*We talk about the camera man walking around, D tells them a story about “what they do with your picture” and they eat it up. I tell them we need to get our picture taken, but we should totally charge the camera guy money. They agree*
M: Yeah, I mean normally I charge five bucks for a picture of me. But a picture of me with my friends is even more! I mean, I could sell that on ebay for who knows how much! Haha. And YOU *Points to HBRT* would probably buy it!
HBRT: I would! You’re right, I totally would.
HBCE: Yeah I would too! * I think GGF even said something but I don’t ‘member*
*D and I shoot the shit with these three for a few more minutes and I get back to the guys. I’m sure I could have #closed RT, but I didn’t really care enough to try. I ejected and they told me they would look for my picture on Ebay. haha. I’ll work on my closes Wednesday, because now I feel like I should have asked just for practice.*
Three fights break out all within about half an hour, which of course, we all used to our advantage as PUA’s! As a group we decide we each have to approach one more time before we go. By this time I was ready to go, and had fallen out of state again, happy with my night. Chubby Chaser gave it his best to motivate me to approach a two-set by the bar, or a four-set directly in front of us. Well I finally snapped and just went for the two-set. I went in with “OMG did you guys see all the fights that happened tonight?! There were three!” talked about that for a minute or two, and transitioned into my scarf routine. One of the girls, who both had really heavy accents and seemed to have a little trouble with English btw, grabbed my scarf to look at it. I told her she owed me five bucks, they both laughed, she gave my scarf back and we talked for another minute or two. I was ready to meet back up with the guys so we could head out. I gracefully ejected and told them to have a good night.
So that wraps up a pretty good night. I had a great time, because I went in there to work on my AA and ability to hold a conversation over loud music, in a place I wasn’t comfortable in. And I feel like I started to get the hang of it towards the end. I think I’ll work on isolation and closes Wednesday at Incahoots. It’s gonna be a blast!
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