Monday, October 20, 2008

Where to Meet Chicks 2

School

School offers an excellent opportunity to meet chicks. We all remember that home-room angel with the soft, fuzzy sweaters too magical to touch, and the truth is that the girls just keep getting better and better looking year after year. In almost every class, there's at least one hot chick, and once you go to college the opportunities just increase. Now there are 20,000 or more men and women of legal age, but still young and mostly unattached. And you're not stuck with just a few girls in your classes, but the entire pool keeps rotating with each semester. And if you get into your core classes and find you're just not meeting the girls you want to meet, why not try a semester as a nursing major? Or ceramics? And if you don't have the time and patience for that, you can still hang out and scope out the chicks as they go to class.

It's also really easy to start talking to these girls. You've got a built-in conversation-starter, and that conversation can easily transition into grabbing a cuppa joe or meeting outside of class. If you can't figure out how to make the first move in starting a conversation, you can get a little more face time by manipulating your teacher's group selection algorithm to your advantage by sitting next to our four seats away or whatever. When I was teaching, I saw many a guy using group work to make time.

In informal surveys, the majority of couples I know met at school. Hell, it's how I met my wife. So why isn't this the number one place to meet chicks? Well, at a certain point, you run outta school. I know there are a few of my readers who are PhDs and still unattached. And although there's always continuing ed, I'd definitely have to say that after grad school the quality of leads tends to go down.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Where to Meet Chicks 3

Work

I know I wrote earlier about not dipping your pen in the company ink, and office relationships have a bad reputation, but the truth is that work is like the bar and its bad rap comes from the fact that so many people hook up at work and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. And when it doesn't it often really doesn't. I heard on the radio a study indicating that relationships starting at work have no worse a success rate than those that start elsewhere.

Even Fox News' resident Sexpert says it's okay to date your coworkers. Who am I to argue with a cute and presumably educated media columnist? She also gives some advice on how to tell if you're feeling the stirrings of love (or at least lust) or if you're just happy to spend time with her because she's the best person you work with. They're pretty straightforward, but useful:

If you only fantasize about her at work or on your way to and from, then it's probably just a work crush.

If you're happy to work with her when the opportunity arises, but when 5 o'clock rolls around you're ready to roll, then it's nothing serious. It's when you start staying late to work with her that it might be something more.

And if you're volunteering to take on extra work just because it means the chance to work with her, that's a good sign to.

A coupla pieces of advice. The first is the one Mary-Louise Parker receives in the movie that introduced me to her (and her pert little tits) Grand Canyon: Be prepared to lose your job. If that's a significant consequence, then put the romance aside. If you can take the job or leave it, then by all means, pursue that bright elusive butterfly.

Next, don't get involved with a married woman. One of the main reasons office relationships get a bad rap is that they're often adulterous. It's in your best interest, too, her husband might not be a nice guy when you get to know him.

Finally, if you're gonna do it in the office, please keep it to your desk, and, for god's sake, clean up after yourself.