Moved to a new city for work last week, and my brother goes to school downtown. He invited me to a thanksgiving party with his classmates, and we end up playing football in a nearby park. Friends keep arriving, and one brings his roommate, HBTurkey. She is dressed to the teeth, a beautiful brunette with boots and tight jeans... she is clearly not going to play. She sits on a bench and just watches. My mentality at this point is "Fuck it, I'm here to have a good time."

When it's time to go, we call her over with "Hey HBTurkey, you sitting by all your friends?" She comes over, we make light talk about the game, and head back to the house. It's 6 dudes plus her at this point, and I initially ignore her while the other guys give her attention.

Everyone leaves the kitchen (to shower or grab a beer) except her and I, so I ask her how she knows everyone/where she's from. Turns out she's from Turkey, and I have a good friend who just got engaged to a Turkish girl. I also bring up something about Turkey joining the EU but she didn't seem very well informed about it, so I skipped that and found out she loves bourbon and whiskey (awesome). I mention I just tried Jameson 12 Year and it's superb but hard to find.

We all start drinking, when I said:

Me: "Ah shit, I forgot my drinking boots." Her: "Drinking boots? You actually have drinking boots?" I go with it, and continue: "Yeah, you know those sandals that have a bottle opener on the bottom? Well these are boots that have a bladder in the heel, and straw that goes up through your clothes and you can drink. So cool." She believed me for a few seconds until it set in, and she said she was going to invent them and make millions.

Tons of people keep arriving, and I know only a few so I keep trying to meet everybody. I still have the mentality, "I don't give a fuck that she's super hot, I'm just here to have a good time."

We find out ahead of time that one of the girls who is coming was arrested for shoplifting, and she and I thought it would be funny if we confronted her about it since neither of us know her.

Me: Great, I'll be the bad cop, and you be the good cop. This will be awesome. Her: Yes! We'll double team her!

I picked up on her tone of voice, and smiled and kept eye contact, paused, and continued the conversation.

Soon, a small group of us start playing a card game in a side room. I tell her to sit next to me, and play a few rounds, escalating kino. I make fun of her when she screws up, and do a lot of push pull with my arms. I tease her for sitting with a bunch of people while we played football, and that she would get her ass kicked even though she was wearing 3 inch heels. She challenges that, and I sense an opportunity.

I tell her that she and I should go one on one, and if I win, she buys me a bottle of her favorite bourbon, and, "...if you win, well... you won't win." She accepts and we grab a football. The PLAN was to take her outside to isolate her and go in for the makeout on the porch, but then McChode saw us with the football and wanted to go play with us. I could sense from a mile away that he was just as interested in her woman parts as I was.

I'm not about to go out there with a dude and her, so I tell them we'll go after 're done with our drinks. Then the idea fizzles out because we have the Thanksgiving speech and rounds of "I'm thankful for..."

Later on, she has to leave with her roommate (cab arrived), so I tell her:

Me: You're pretty cool, let me get your number so we can hang out again. Her: Yeah definitely, I'll hit you up and you take me sailing! (I just bought a sailboat)

So that was that, I ended up getting blasted at this party and had a fucking awesome time.

Texting continues:

Me, Fri 1:30AM: Your pie is so good (yeah I was drunk and she brought a pie to the dinner, and left it. it was good, lay off)

Me, Fri 5:30PM: Finally got my drinking boots, you should pick up a pair ;) Come meet me at [club] tomorrow night

Her, Fri 11:00PM: Interesting, I think you got a bootleg pair since my awesome drinking boots aren't on the market yet... ;) text me tomorrow, I might stop by.

Me, Sat 7:00PM: The jamo 12 year won gold at the [city] spirits competition this year, just have to find a place that sells it. See you tonight

Me, Sat 10:00PM: Nope, bouncing to [other club]. You know where to find me

Her, Sat 11:00PM: Don't think I'm going to make it out tonight, not feeling so hot. :( next time for sure though

Me, Sun 6:00PM: It was a super boring time ;)

Her, Sun 8:00PM: I'm assuming your drinking boots help up for the night. ;)

Me, Mon 4:00PM: Do you actually work or just listen to music all day? ;) [Popular Brewery] tour, Thursday, 5pm, I'll drive

Immediately after I send this, I realize that it won't work out becuase of traffic, but decide to wait.

Me, Tue 9:00PM: How about Saturday? Traffic won't be as bad

Her, Wed 10:30PM: So sorry to just get back to you. Work has been ridiculously busy, like 12 hour days busy. Might be able to do Saturday if I'm not headed out to [Big City] for work. I'll let you know tomorrow...

Me, Thu 4:00PM: You are a very busy girl. How are yoing to find the time to patent your drinking boots? ;)

I think the biggest area I could have improved on was sneak her out when McChode wasn't around to isolate her on the porch for the kiss, as well as not drunk texting her about her delicious pie.

TL;DR Met a girl at a Thanksgiving party, teased her for sitting alone and "drinking boots," talked about her country and bourbon (which she loves), tried to create "our" reality by scheming to be a bad cop/good cop and doubleteam another girl, escalated kino during cards, tried to isolate her on the porch (but foiled by Sir McChode), grabbing her number, and texting her with references to the above sprinkled in. Also I'm lazy and it took me a week to type this.

My goal is to push this as far as I can move it, but I honestly don't care if she never responds to me again. Any thoughts to where I could have sharpened the interation? Any feedback is appreciated. If you're not good, be good at it!