My friend invited me a while back to a party for tonight, but today when I asked for the start time, she told me it had happened yesterday. I had been really excited at the prospect of going out again after months of seclusion, and when I heard this, I decided to say fuck it, and go out anyway. I had started a fitness program a few weeks earlier, and was feeling pretty confident. I also felt really good about my attire, although I had run out of contacts and was forced to wear glasses, repping the hipster look.

Present tense:

So I'm driving downtown, and give myself a pat on the back for not needing my GPS. It's Sunday night in San Jose, and I have the easiest time finding parking. As I'm walking to my first bar, I open a male passerby, and make small talk about the new road lane.

I order a drink, attempt to open the dude a couple seats to my right, (tonight sure is dead, huh?) and he just grunts. Later a couple moves in directly to my right to order their drink. I open by mentioning that Jägerbombs are my favorite. The female leaves, male stays and continues the conversation. Convo stalls, female comes back, I attempt to re-open, get blown out, eject. The few females in the bar have males hovering over them, so I ask the bouncer about another bar, and bounce.

As I walk to the second bar, I attempt to open two different female sets, and get blown out both times.

This bar has a karaoke setup, and pricier drinks. I open the guy on my right, we talk a bit, then he gets his drinks and leaves for his group. I listen to a few songs, open one of the participants (male), we talk about music, then I bounce.

Third and final bar is where I finally successfully open females.

There's more karaoke, and a dance floor, so I go dance by myself for a bit and have fun. Afterwards, I go sit down somewhere. I look over, and see this decent 6/10. I mention that one of the girls in her group is now on stage. She responds, doesn't continue the conversation, but I'm feeling a good vibe. I go walk around, dance, and end up seated on her other side. This area is occupied by a different female set, and they tell me to get lost. I go, "oh that's cool, I'm with these guys anyway", and open the 6/10 again. I convince her to sign up for the karaoke. I take her hand for a bit, but she breaks off. Somewhere in this sequence of events, I went on stage and performed a duet.

So I'm at the bar, watching her sing, and ask the bartender for some water. He gives me shit about it being for customers only (I haven't bought anything at this bar), but then a different bartender goes ahead and gives me a glass. I open a guy on my right, and introduce him to the girl sitting behind him (I have no idea who she is). Later I get my water, and as I'm drinking, I feel something on my arm, and notice this hot as fuck 8/10 chick rubbing up on it with her own. And the contact doesn't stop, it just keeps going on and on. I don't know how to respond, so I don't, and go back to the dance floor instead.

I go dance for my 6/10, but the song is really slow and I'm not feeling it. It ends, and she hops off the stage and back to the dance floor, and there's this guy hovering around now. I ask him if she's his girl, he doesn't immediately respond, but I just stand there staring at him expectantly, and finally he confirms (I probably learned this technique from some seduction resource, and it works). I give him a high five ten, and keep dancing with her. He gets in between and starts body blocking me with outstretched arms, then I get between him and her and do the same. I've seen lots of comments here about backing off from chicks in relationships, so I'm not sure if this will get me branded an asshole, but I was just having fun. I'm 5'5, and both the guy and the girl were taller than me, so I wasn't really worried about intimidating anyone.

After a few more dance offs, they finally leave, and I'm back to dancing alone again. Then from out of fucking nowhere, 8/10 chick comes and initiates massive kino. We're all over each other on the dance floor. This is by far the most kino I've gotten with a chick this hot. The song ends, and we walk over to the side, entangled. I'm wondering if I can kiss her, but she ends up disengaging and walking back to her spot at the bar. I stay where I am for a song, then walk back myself.

She's in my spot, and we kino as I get my water. I text my friend, who I've been giving a running commentary, about how "I just grinded on this really hot 8/10 chick", and show her the message. I notice her friend, a 4/10, and start talking to her, and give her a back rub.

Then the magic wears off - there's less kino, and she's acting frigid. I go dancing alone, and when she comes back on the floor, she's with another dude. I don't cut in. The bar closes, and I try to talk her. She goes "oh, were we dancing earlier"? FML. I try to number close, and fail, instead giving her my number.

tl;dr

felt confident, opened a bunch of sets, danced with a 6/10, danced with her bf, grinded on an 8/10, didn't k-close, didn't #-close

I ran some game on the 6/10, but I really didn't talk to the 8/10 at all. Could I have gotten further with the 8/10, or are dancers just huge teases?

Anyway, it felt good to be out again, and I consider this night a success.