Recently, a couple of lists of the best places to meet chicks came to my attention. One was in
Men's Health July/August issue. It lists the 13 best places to meet chicks based on 3 "scientific" rules.
Rule 1: Build your romantic network. Principle being if you become friends with a lot of women, one of them is going to set you up with her friend. Places to become friends with women (and men):
Dallas Sport and Social Club, where it recommends coed kickball, which, fortunately, you can do virtually anywhere these days
ImprovBoston theater performance classes--"Women like a man who can make 'em laugh." (Okay, they didn't say this, but I think the Genie did in
Aladdin.
Durham Bulls Athletic Park--buy a bunch of tickets and have friends invite friends. Then root for your team, building up your testosterone. This is guaranteed to get you laid (unless you paint your face or your belly).
Volunteer groups--"Selflessness is sexy."
Rule 2: Let chaos be your wingman. Go places. You might run into women.
Santa Monica Farmers' Market--"tap into a spirit of sociability, exploration, and inquisitiveness." They do note that you can find a closer market by gong to localharvest.org
Yelp.com--this can lead you to places "where all the cool people go," which is fine if a) you believe this, and b) you're one of the cool people, in which case you're probably not having too much trouble meeting people, b/c you already know where you go.
Waterloo Records (Austin, Texas)--People are more attracted to someone who shares their musical taste, apparently. But you can only meet people at independent record stores.
Ikea--that's right, Scandinavian furniture will set you free. Or the Apple store. Or, if you're the more active type, go to L.L. Bean or REI. Go to a store and talk to women.
Rule 3: Use spare time as show time. Did we mention you need to get out of the house to meet women? And show off. Women like that.
First Fridays at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. According to a U of Iowa study, women are more concerned with a man's intelligence and education than good looks and financial prospects. Which is why every PhD I know has to fend 'em off with a stick.
Movies in the Parks (Chicago)--People are apparently really social at these things.
Mile High Music Festival--Did we mention that people like people wth a similar taste in music? Oh, we did? Well, how's about this--go to a music festival because it attracts a more diverse crowd and you can meet people with different tastes in music. Maybe you'll hit it off with them.
Philadelphia Punk Rock Flea Market--Meet strange people here.
Bank of America Chicago Marathon--Apparently the real goodie here is training for the marathon with someone. You can look forward to it together. And if you survive, maybe you can call her and find out all you really had in common was the marathon. This might be great if you're a runner looking to meet other runners, but if you are, you've probably met 'em.
And that was their list.
I also ran into a featurette on thefrisky.com, generally a terrible website, but in this case it was interesting. It was basically a bunch of women sharing anecdotes about where they met their guys. Turns out a surprising amount of them met him in line somewhere. The grocery store, the bank, buying tickets for a game or movie, or buying food at the game or movie.
This makes perfect sense to me. You're there. She's there. You're both waiting. Strike up a conversation. It happens every day. There's no pressure. If she's married or a bitch or thinks you're an idiot, you can just part company after you check out, but if not . . . well maybe you don't have any place to be, and she doesn't have any place to be, and the rest of the story just writes itself.
