Okay, so I have to admit that I have never picked up a woman in a bar. I’m sure I’m not alone. Mostly it has been a bit of “life-timing”. First, when I turned 21, I was still to poor to go into a bar. I might have been an Ivy Leaguer, but I was also a “financial aid” kid. Plus I always kinda hated beer. (I’m a supertaster! “No treatment is needed”) My drunken youth was mostly spent passing a bottle of bully hill back and forth. So I didn’t do the “bar culture” in my youth. I was a little too leftist for the bar scene anyways. Our college bar scene was pretty … greek. And I was still a bit too geek.
Then I got married way too young. To somebody who also never spent much time in bars. Actually to somebody who didn’t even drink.
It wasn’t until I was 10 years into my marriage and started doing a lot of business travel, that I found myself in bars. In bars with an expense account (even nicer). But I was also still married.
So finally, over a year ago, I found myself “emancipated” from my marriage, and .. omg.. dating!
One of the first woman I met (on CL of all places..) asked me right out.. “Do you pickup a lot of women in bars?”. This kind of gave my head a full headspin… she clearly thought I had the ability to pickup women in bars. Is it possible?
