The title basically says all there is to say about this one.

I was walking home by myself from the park at around midnight. I'd had a long and eventful day in the park with TofuTofu where we got completely wasted on other people's booze. At a 7-11 near my house I happened to run into a cool American guy I had met over a month ago when visiting another part of Japan.

He was with two other guys and 3 Japanese girls who were all pretty cute. One of the girls was nestled up against one of the guys who I later learned was her "neighbor", but the other two seemed to be just random girls that the group had picked up that day. After introductions all around, I ended up going along to a club with them. It was a place I didn't know, and when we got there it turned out to be tiny. Our group accounted for half of the people there. During the course of the night, one of the girls left the place with one of original guys in our group. Of the other two, one was still in the corner with her "neighbor", and the other (the cutest) was very receptive and fun, but 1) it was obvious that my American friend liked her, and 2) she kept talking about her boyfriend in America. So that was that. And besides those two, the place was slim pickings. So around 4:00AM I decided to head home.

On the way out, I saw the girl who had been nestled against the guy all night dancing by herself. Ever since I had first met the group, this girl had been leaning on that other guy and holding hands, but she seemed to be rejecting his attempts at going further. On top of that, in conversation I had established that they were not dating and technically she was fair game. She had been giving me looks all night form the corner, and here she was, so I thought what the hell and started dancing on her. She responded very enthusiastically by grinding into me and letting me put my hands all over her. Even as drunk as I was, though, I didn't really want to put any effort into stealing the guy's girl. I stopped dancing after less than 15 seconds and just decided I'd go all-or-nothing.

I said to her "hey, I live nearby, let's go back to my place." She looked at me and said "why?". I said "you know why. Let's go." She said something noncommittal, so I pressed, and she said "I'm not drunk enough for that yet". I said don't worry, I am. Let's go. She was not having it.

Oh well. I made one more pass around the place and hit the exit. On the way out I saw the girl on the stairwell with the guy she had been with. They were talking but it still didn't look like he was getting anywhere. As I walked past he put his hand on her leg and she knocked it away. She would not have done that with me. But oh well. He did see her first.

I really, really hate the feeling of walking out of a club in the early morning with no girl. I don't know how some guys manage to consistently bring home girls from clubs without settling for bottom-of-the-barrel dregs or pulling asshole moves like stealing a girl from a member of your group. I'm 32 years old and I go out every week, usually multiple times a week, and have done so consistently whenever I haven't been in a LTR since I turned 21. If you ask the guys in TokyoSeddit who have seen me in action, I think they will attest I've got pretty good game. And yet I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've actually brought a girl home after meeting her in the club.

I'm starting to wonder if I should just give up on trying for same-day F-closes in the club altogether, and just focus establishing solid number-closes instead.