In teh heat of the night, or girls ARE hard to get

[Andail]

Just a report from the swedish night-life, not necessarily interesting.
I don't know whether it's fun or sad that most of my nights out look like this.

I worked until nine pm yesterday, and went directly to a birthday party, although I have this big schoolproject to hand in tomorrow and am going to work all day today. Me and time just don't cooperate that well.
I met with my friend, and as it got late we decided to go downtown, and meet with my sister Amanda and her friends instead. The rest of the birthday people were boring and just  went home, except for a french guy who accompanied em and my friend Tobias.
So we met with my sister and her friends, among them Matilda, with whom Tobias has some sort of open relationship, which all is pretty weird.
They also left their boring friends except for one other girl, Sofia. The six of us went for a good disco.
In a local park, my sister thought it would be fun to push Tobias and Matilda in the fountain, so I helped her carry out this project. It started out as a joke, but ended in Tobias and Matilda actually being in the water, soaked and a bit suprised.
I couldn't stop laughing. But they deserved it, with this open relationship and all.
They went home, and the remaining four went to the disco.

In the line to the disco, my sister suddenly had some ache in her stomach, so she and Sofia had to split. I was left with this french guy whom I didn't know, but we were both
drunk and enjoying the exciting twists of the night so far.

Anyhow, he rapidly got more drunk and turned out to be that stupid kind of dancer who goes for sexual exhibitionism instead of fine-feathered manners like me while dancing.

Apparently he was good-looking, because a variety of chicks surrounded him and seemed happy with that.

At a pillar beside the dance-floor stood a cute girl all alone, so I approached her with the intention of picking her up, more or less. As I started talking to her, she said:
"Trying to pick me up? Allright, you've got three chances to say something I will remember tomorrow."

Although this was a weird thing to do, I was challenged and accepted it. Considering myself pretty witty in these situations, I actually thought I could do it.
But I was completely dumbfounded, and couldn't come up with anything good at all. My first attempt was some sort of parody of the regular cliché lines, like do you often go here or something. I don't remember exactly what I said.
She just said "You've got two more chances".
I don't know what my second attempt was, but it failed again, and here I think I started laughing about how silly the situation was and that she was actually a real bitch, but it was a fun game, so I made a third attempt which resulted in her just leaving while I looked in the ceiling trying to come up with something.

We went home, and since this dumb french guy didn't know where he - or rather the girl with whom he was staying - lived, he had to follow me home and sleep in my room. I actually concidered just running while he was taking a leak, but I was worried I might meet him again.

So here I am today, stupidly hung over, soon going to work where I will spend the whole day changing dipers on old senile smelly people. Then I will spend the whole night writing on my project, even though my student home is having a house party tonight.
I can't call my friend because supposedly his mobile phone broke in the water.

Perhaps the chick in the disco actually does remember me today, how silly I was. At least that's something.

[Gilbert]

Hehe looks like a good new addition to your adventure games.

You should say "You dance like a dairy farmer!"

[Flippy_D]

How appropriate, you ARGGH MY SPINE!

[SSH]

Tell them that you've got VD...

(from http://www.psy.mq.edu.au/328/WilliamsDolnik.pdf):
In her honors thesis, Kathy
Zablocki (1996) looked at the effectiveness of stealing thunder on the early stages of
dating. She was interested in whether males who were waiting for an experiment
along with an attractive female (who was actually an experimental confederate)
would agree to join her for coffee after the experiment. From other research
indicating that males are quite willing to agree to female pick-up lines (Clark &
Hatfield, 1989) the answer to this question would seem to be fairly obvious. But there
was a catch. In two of the three conditions, the males found out that she had genital
herpes. While waiting for the experiment to begin, the attractive female chatted
pleasantly with the unsuspecting male. During this 5-minute interchange, the males
were exposed either to no information regarding the herpes (no thunder), witnessed
a prescription for genital herpes with a pamphlet about the disease fall out of her
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purse as she left for the restroom (thunder), or prior to witnessing the purse?s
contents spill, were told by the female that she had herpes (stealing thunder). After
she returned, she asked the male to join her for coffee, and recorded his response.
In the no thunder condition, 60% of the males agreed to join her for coffee.
When they saw the herpes-related contents spill out of her purse, only 50% agreed.
But, when she stole thunder by telling them about her herpes prior to the contents
spilling, 70% agreed to join her.

[Dmitri]

wow dude, at least you can be comforted in knowing you're social life is more interesting than mine. Just once I'd like to meet a drunk-off-his-face french guy and take him home. "He followed me home. Can I keep him Mummy?"

[Dragonrose at skizool]

"You've got three chances to say something that I'll remember tomorrow."

Hmm... I'm going to have to try that one

*laughs evilly.*

[Gonzo]

That's way too hard for me. If a girl said that to me, my brain would probably explode, I wouldn't have a clue. I've spent a few hours mulling it over just now and drawn a total blank to be honest. Hope its not a new trend, if so I'll be staying indoors for a few months, it sounds scary.

[plasticman]

hehe, so from what i understand, you don't remember what you told her ?

looks like you should forget about the fine-feathered manners and go for the exhibitionism-dancing

[SSH]

Wearing a kilt is guaranteed to get the girls trying to think of chat-up lines for you, rather than the other way around. They always seem to want to know if you're a "true Scot". Some even try and find out while I'm standing there with my arm around my wife's shoulders!

[Nacho]

Wow Andail... Last night was in a so weird atmosphere that I am willing to join one of that nights... Let me explain... I am a cyclist whose can´t go thru the nights most of the year  :'( I NEED one of that stange nights that start boring and become weird now... (put "The End" song of the Doors here for giving the appropiate atmosphere to the post...)

I´ve been thinking in joining Mittens for a long time, now I know that I can´t, but the idea of facing a girl with that sort of amazing challenge makes me feel so sorry about couldn´t be able to go...

Imagine how could your life been change if you´d said the right words...

[Gonzo]

But what could you say? I haven't seen a convincing reply to her challenge yet - not that I can come up with one.

And yes, strange nights that start boring and become weird are great.

[Harvester]

"Trying to pick me up? Allright, you've got three chances to say something I will remember tomorrow."

How about: "Nice shoes. Wanna f**k?"
Great old pickup line.

By the way, Andail, your social life compared to mine makes you a Casanova

[Nacho]

Mmmm... Harvester, sure the girl should remember that the next day... But the image that I have in my mind is more like a Cameron-Diaz-perfect-girl whose could be deeply fall in love to you for just one sentence... (Sure that the real situation Andail lived has nothing to see with what I have in mind, but let´s imagine...)

Which could have been that magic sentence? Gonzo... Wanna play?

[Barcik]

* Barcik waves his hand, Jedi-like

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"You will remember this tormorrow morning."

[Privateer Puddin']

im sure she'd remember

"I've got an STD but lets do it anyway"

[Gonzo]

Slightly OT, but this reminds me of something...anyone here watch 'The Office'? In one episode the goofy, socially inept, but says-he-was-in-the-Territorial-Army-and-is-hard-as-nails character Gareth is trying to impress a work experience girl, and his line is something like:

"People think, oh look, he was in the army, he's tough. But I'm sensitive, I'm caring. Isn't 'Schindler's List' a great film?"


As for the coming up with the line for that 'three chances' girl, I am still thinking, and will get back to you.

[Robert Eric]

"I can see down your shirt.  Please don't cover yourself."

[Pumaman]

Of course, there's always the possibility of going to a club to enjoy the music and dancing, picking someone up is not obligatory  

Oh, and the answer to the question is of course "I make adventure games."  

[Trapezoid]

im sure she'd remember

"I've got an STD but lets do it anyway"

I think it would work better as a pickup line this way: "Hey baby, want some STDs?"

[Robert Eric]

Ask her halfway through the act.

"Do you have Aids?"
"NO!"
"Well, now you do."