Oh lay off. He’s probably a nervous wreck by now.
I’m checking with my broker. You might have to settle for a lease.
Wait wait wait, who’s giving her a boat? I thought I was getting her a boat.
This isn’t gonna end in a duel, is it?
I’ve been told I’m not unattractive though I think I’m one of the insecure attractive people alluded to earlier. So I figured I’d track whether or not I got anything good this week. Free shower gel at Sephora, a free bag of potato chips with my soda and sandwich at the deli, and last Friday the bartender at a bar I was at offered to get me into a club with an expensive cover charge any time I wanted to go. Not bad for someone who rarely gets out! 
Yeah, I’m not actually deluded into thinking the potato chips or shower gels are a hotness perk, but the club thing I’m assuming was. I’m pretty introverted. I think I’d get a lot more of those kinds of offers if I left the house once in a while…
Now think about what you could get if you worked towards getting them all the time and on a consistent basis.
Not that I’m trying to shit on your parade (this is the obligatory preface before stating something that is seemingly intended to shit on your parade, but seriously, that is not my intent), I think the free chips and whatever are nice people perks. My former old man got lots of perks at lots of places, and he was big, old guy with a beard. As cute as I found him, I don’t think he was scoring “hotness” points.
As for getting covers waived, I think that’s a vagina perk. This ranks up there with getting out of speeding tickets, and sales clerks attending to you first. When I used to live in LaLa Land, there were parts of town on certain days and times when it was barely even safe to be a girl, because “promoters” came out the woodwork to approach every broad they saw, offering to waive coverage charges. As a dame who used to go to clubs, I’ve only paid a cover once in my life (this was in Los Angeles, mind you, where there are cover charges at bowling alleys), and I got huffy because my cover was discounted, as opposed to waived altogether. “What? Do these people not realize I am a girl?” Covers became something I came to dismiss as the Dude Tax. Yeah, yeah, only boys pay covers. If anyone in MN ever tried to make me pay a cover charge, I would pack my shit up and move the next day. MN, of course, is not as cover-happy as CA, but at the few spots where there are covers in this joint that I would willingly go to, I don’t pay them. If I didn’t pay them there, I sure the fuck am not about to pay them here.
I am not hot. At all.
I think it’s a girl thing. A hotness thing is getting boat cruises and shit like that one broad mentioned earlier. That is crazy.
Well, um, yeah, I put that in my post. As I mentioned, I only put those in there jokingly.
Well, I mean, it wasn’t like getting into that bar. He was offering to take me to another bar. Plus I wasn’t there alone. I was there with another female friend and the guy still pretty much just addressed all those offers to me.
I mean, I’m just kind of doubting random people get approached on the street with offers of boats and stuff for being hot. That broad may well exist, I just kinda have my doubts.
Least Original, I may have to break out the feminine wiles. I have been pretty successful at getting guys to buy me drinks in bars. Time to step up my game. I never did get the Malibu Barbie dream house…
Yeah, gotta agree with MeanOldLady on this one . . . I’m not hot and when I was going out a lot, I get bartenders/bouncers/promoters/random people offering me waived covers all the time. They may not offer it to everyone, not even every vagina, but generally they probably look for the cutest girl that they generally happen to glance upon sitting within two feet of them and ask her. And the next hour they ask someone else. And so on. I’m also pretty extroverted, so that probably helped. I think that’s a perk that not-hideous-looking girls get.
I am still waiting to her about the hotnesses who get all-expenses-paid vacays!
MeanOldLady, I think I love you.
I have it on good authority she’s neither Mean, nor Old.
she doesn’t fuck around with her drinks, either.
Ya know, sometimes I’ll read over something I wrote, or someone will relay something that I said earlier, and I’ll think, “Why do I say things like that?”
I have credible sources that would disagree. But I don’t mess around with my drinks. That is serious business.
For scientific reasons, try it out for a few weeks.
I think MeanOldLady’s on the right track, breaking perks down into different categories. There are hot women perks, hot/wealthy-looking people perks, vagina perks, dick perks (nothing like being a hot woman in a gay male area to feel completely invisible), nice people perks,
Hey we’re the same minority’ perks (my Iranian friends always get this).
Well, probably, but as I said in this case it wasn’t the cover of the bar I was at–it was at some other club I’d never even heard of. Which basically breaks down to some guy hitting on me/asking me out, which does happen often.
LOUSE, I should start saying yes to those because hey, free biscotti is nothing to sneer at. (Er, do you mind me calling you Louse?)
[Emilie Autumn]
Thank God I’m pretty
The occasional free drink I never asked for
The occasional admission to a seedy little bar
Invitation to a stranger’s car
I’m blessed
With the ability to rend a grown man tongue-tied
Which only means that when it’s dark outside
I have to run and hide can’t look behind me
Thank God I’m pretty
[/EA]
Okay, fine, it happend because you’re hot. Non-hot girls are hit on and asked out fairly regularly as well, but meh.
Well, I mean I just kind of figured it was because of how I look because I am often told that I’m attractive and the guy was ignoring my (equally vagina endowed friend) to hit on me. It just seems like the message I’m getting is that unless someone offers me a horse drawn carriage and a cruise ship, having guys flirt with/offer me stuff has nothing to do with how I look.
Anyway, sorry if I hit a wrong note these last couple of posts…hope I didn’t piss you off or anything?
Meh, not pissed. It’s just that I don’t think being flirted with is a perk, but that’s irrelevant. Regardless of whether I view it as a perk or not, I don’t think it is something hot women get that other women don’t. I suppose an unattractive woman gets flirted with less than an attractive woman, but being flirted with in bars and having men offer you stuff (drinks, waived cover charges and the like) is called being a woman in a bar, not necessarily being a hot woman in a bar. I guess a perk of being hot could be having more attractive men hitting on you, and not the same d-bags that every woman gets. I’ll have to look into this “hotness” business and see if I can arrange it for myself. If I can, I’ll experiment and report my findings. As it is now, I’m flirted with and hit on frequently. Will see of quality of flirts improves if I can increase this “hotness” thing.
I like you more and more, MeanOldLady. Will you be my friend, or at least my general acquaintance?
Anyways, I second your whole post. I do think the quality of man increases with how hot you are, though. But like you, I’m not hot, and in bars men are all over me, and every other woman there. Maybe it has to do more with general confidence? And I have noticed that when I put on my death stare of hate, men tend to stay away more. So it might have to more with '“aura” than hotness.
Anyways, do hottify yourself and conduct a more scientific approach to this.
This whole thread is useless because none of the female posters will admit they’re hot, except in a ridiculous “well, I’ve been told I’m attractive, but I’m really quite frumpy” sort of way. Come on, girls- stick out those tits and wiggle your hips! Stop being so goddamn humble and just say you’re bangable.