My roommate got all hyped up for July 4th weekend. He's a recovering AFC, but slowly trying to change. So he wants to drag me out to wing him. I say fine. But then he picks a meetup to go to. I laugh and try to convince him not to go there, but in the end, I give in to amuse him.

The crowd there is older (30's to early 40's), but the wing is all into it. Turns out he's great at opening. Terrible at closing. He was opening women 10 to 20 years older. He called them cute. Which to me was amazing. Turns out he's great at it when he doesn't care, and feels more confident when he can blow the other guys out of the water--hence going to the meetup. I told him it doesn't matter what other guys do. It's just want he does.

The HB8

Either way, we bumped into a 26 year old HB8--a grungy type. He opened, and intro'd us. I end up talking to the girl about how she was new in town, how she had a unique name, etc. I'm better at kino, but it mostly just goes to shoulder and arm touches and arm around the waist for brief moments. I haven't worked it up to holding her hand or anything. The HB had a cross tattoo on her arm, and I asked her if she had crosses elsewhere. She showed me a tattoo of a bat on her back. Whatever, I got to touch it.

HB was only milding interested, but she wasn't too impressed. Body language was arms crossed, legs crossed. By now, I do a minimal version of body rocking, but I generally don't directly face a target, and I'm always pointed elsewhere, and I alternate between leaning in and leaning out. Towards the end, I asked her for her number, just to close, and told her if there was any house parties going on, I'd let her know about it.

Texted her right afterwards to say good to meet her, and I'll let her know if there's fun stuff going on. She said 'ok, thanks.' This week, texted her about a BBQ, but she never replied.

** The HB4 **

I've never met an HB4 before. But this is what desperate guys must feel like to HBs. I made eye contact with her, and she came over and just started asking me questions, like what do I do. I told her to ask me a more interesting question. We talked about whether I spoke other languages or not, then she asked me for my phone number, but then saw that it was my google voice number, so then wanted my actual number. Then she asked me for my fb, and I told her my full name so she can look me up herself. Then she asked me to email her. I told her I'd just text message her my name and she can look me up. She was satiated when she saw that the text message had another phone number (my 'real' one).

After that I told him we should head out to a bar with girls our age. So we head over and I started off strong

** The HB9 x 2 **

I was just walking around, and the roommate joked that we should hit on the two hot girls standing there. I've never done this before with HB9s, but I just walked by, and saw that one was doing a little jig, so I commented on whether she was dancing. And she was receptive and just said that they were trying to learn how to dougie. Could I show them how? I told this short story about how I saw tigger and pooh do it on youtube, and it was something like this. From there, I just pulled some of those moves I played on the xbox kinect. Not too much though. Both were tall. (I'm 5'10") One was 5'10" and the other one must have been 6'2" I said the usual, where are they from, and luckily, I've been there before as well. Intro'd my wing, and I took the taller one, since the roommate seemed to be having rapport with the other making her laugh. I was merely amusing and engaging, but not attractive to the taller one. At the end, I just asked her for her number, and she hesitated, so I said, "Hey, that's alright, it seems like you and I are destined to leave it to fate, so if we meet again...!"

No number, but at least approached. No other guys were approaching these two.

** The bouncer HB8 **

I was walking to a different part of the bar/lounge, with couches, and this girl was standing by the doorway. I just said, "Hey, are you the bouncer to this room". She played along, and asked for my ID. I gave her two, one from each State I lived in. And then we kinda hit it off from there, and I was able to get in some more kino than usual, since she hit the back of head, so I was able to reach around and sooth it. And then she play blocked the doorway, and I did a full body bump up against her, and she didn't seem to mind. Then she was making up nicknames for herself, and I just went along with Xena, and talking about the killed boomerang. This was all within about 10 mins, and she said she had to go look for her friends. I said, hey, listen, that was fun, lemme get your number, and she said yes.

I texted her since, and no reply. :( Hrm. oh well. Too bad. I really thought that one went well.