Djurmz
03-02-2008, 02:56 PM
This place is so full of opinions, I thought I'd collect a few on a recent situation I found myself in.
I'm sitting at the bar in a local restaurant when a beautiful woman who looks to be about my age (26) walks in alone and sits across from me (u-shaped bar). No ring, good news. We exchange glances a few times while eating and end up having a short conversation across the bar trying to figure out why we look familiar to each other, turns out we've never met. I invite her to come take the chair next to me and offer to buy her next drink once she finishes her dinner. A few minutes later a group comes in and she knows them and she gets wrapped up in conversations. Meanwhile my buddy is ready to go so we each pay up and head for the door. I walked by her on the way out and she apologizes that she didn't make it over there yet (10 minutes or so had passed), but she definitely hopes to see me around soon. Not unlikely, its a small town. Since she was in the middle of a group of other people, I offered likewise comments and made my exit.
Now ideally I would have waited a bit longer, we could have chatted, maybe exchanged numbers. But it's too late for all that. I know from our conversations where she works, but its a title company and I'd never have legitimate business in there, at least not in the near future.
So that's where I am now. Where I want to be is meeting her for a drink. Any ideas on how to get there from here? I'm just looking for options here, I have a few ideas of my own, but I'm looking for more perspectives.
Oh, and a single, attractive woman without kids over age 25 is a rare find in this small town, so if it seems like I'm thinking too hard about this, try and put yourself in my shoes.
I'm sitting at the bar in a local restaurant when a beautiful woman who looks to be about my age (26) walks in alone and sits across from me (u-shaped bar). No ring, good news. We exchange glances a few times while eating and end up having a short conversation across the bar trying to figure out why we look familiar to each other, turns out we've never met. I invite her to come take the chair next to me and offer to buy her next drink once she finishes her dinner. A few minutes later a group comes in and she knows them and she gets wrapped up in conversations. Meanwhile my buddy is ready to go so we each pay up and head for the door. I walked by her on the way out and she apologizes that she didn't make it over there yet (10 minutes or so had passed), but she definitely hopes to see me around soon. Not unlikely, its a small town. Since she was in the middle of a group of other people, I offered likewise comments and made my exit.
Now ideally I would have waited a bit longer, we could have chatted, maybe exchanged numbers. But it's too late for all that. I know from our conversations where she works, but its a title company and I'd never have legitimate business in there, at least not in the near future.
So that's where I am now. Where I want to be is meeting her for a drink. Any ideas on how to get there from here? I'm just looking for options here, I have a few ideas of my own, but I'm looking for more perspectives.
Oh, and a single, attractive woman without kids over age 25 is a rare find in this small town, so if it seems like I'm thinking too hard about this, try and put yourself in my shoes.