Not every story can be a success story. In the words of Churchill "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." and with that I provide this somewhat dismal field report.

Got to Prague on Friday after some shotgun travel through Germany. Been staying at a Hostel in central Prague. Was in the common room getting some work done. A group of guys from various parts of the world are having some beers together. Couple girls come in (HB7.5 and HB8) and start talking to the group of guys. They want some beer and are looking for a bottle opener. Thankfully, I'm happy to provide. For those of you out there who go to parties fairly often, get one of these. Girls jaws drop when I open the bottles and I start to strike up a conversation with the group. Things are going well and there girls are pretty interesting, a French guy in the group is gunning for them as well. The guy is laid back and relaxed, acting very alpha. I do it right back. Some things that seemed to work well:

  • Getting some beer if someone asked me to open a bottle.
  • Joking around with everyone.
  • Being a snide ass, especially was to the French guy. This is always a fine line.
  • Changing the subject, if someone would start to get on a role with something I would move the conversation to something else.

French guy seems to get a bit tired of getting sidelined and he leaves for other territory. Closing in on my target, the HB7.5. (Quick aside: Objectively speaking the HB8 was better looking perhaps, but every man has his preferences.) It's going pretty good, getting some light kino in and slowly escalating.

It's at this point that the HB8 pulls out the cock-block salvo. She is jeering at my jokes, making fun of me, and altogether acting like she's talking to a 10 year old. This was a continuous 30-minute long shit test. Thankfully, I keep my act together. I keep making jokes, ride off the insults like I don't care. Get done with all that, and she finally turns and talks to others in the group.

At this point I completely drop the ball. I have the girl facing me and not the rest of the group, she's enjoying the conversation. I completely fail to isolate or to escalate things further. The cock-blocking action made me lose sight of what was going on. Topic switched to something she didn't really like, I failed to notice soon enough and that was that. Dead in the water.

End up bouncing out to a club with the French guy, turns out he's pretty cool and thankfully I wasn't a complete ass. Club is cool, open up some sets but nothing is really biting. Only thing of note is that I managed to quickly escalate with an HB7.5. Lots of kino and she seems to be having fun, continue to escalate. Decide to go in for the kiss but she pulls away. Alas, just not my night.

Still, was a great night and I met a lot of cool people. Saw the HB7.5 and HB8 earlier today as they were heading out and they were all smiles and friendly as we talked. Can't win them all, but sometimes you don't lose either.

Just the start of two months in Prague, with a electronica show coming up on Thursday and much more. On to the next failure!