A group of us were enjoying some drinks at the pool this weekend. We were on the pool steps and a guy was trying to get by. He seemed cool, their group was just a few feet from ours and they had been shuffling past every few minutes.

As he came by, going back into the pool, a girl in our group complimented his swim trunks. Admiring the pattern, she said, “are those fishing lures?” The guy stopped and went into a funny narrative about how it was a pattern of rare birds from the amazon that pooped fruit loops. He said they were endangered and was supporting their cause. We all got a good chuckle and the guy swam back over to his people.

After he left the girl, immediately says “that made him really attractive.” I looked at her and asked what she meant and she said that responding in that way made him “3 points hotter.”

I think there’s a good lesson in that.