We tested out this theory Friday night. My girls and I went out for some drinks in Hamra.
10:15 PM We enter the first spot and head straight to the bar. As soon as we ordered some drinks the bartender gave us a round of free shots. Jagermeister. The man clearly wanted to get us drunk. We hesitantly drank them, thanked him and tried to continue our discussion. He stuck around. At times, even interrupted our conversations to contribute to the topic. It was annoying.
10:47 PM We start giving him some serious attitude and so he brings in the next round of shots. This time: tequila. We knew were this was going so we had the shots thanked him and asked for the bill.
He wanted a number, any number, all our numbers, whatever he could get. We apologized and told him we all have boyfriends.
11:03 PM We finally get the bill and it included ALL the shots. My friend wanted to go off on the sleazeball for charging us for shots he offered, I convinced her out of it. We don’t need his freebies.
11:17 PM We move onto another bar. Suddenly the waitress shows up with three glass of Moet, from the two gentlemen in the corner. So here’s the dilemma, we don’t accept them, and we look like uptight stuck-up girls who don’t know how to have some fun, but if we do accept the drinks we risk having to reject the men in person. So we hesitate for a minute, but it’s champagne!
11:35 PM The men are hovering like sharks that’ve spotted their prey, until they finally decide to approach us. One of them says something cheesy calling us “very beautiful women.”
“Thanks for the champagne, but if you don’t mind we are having a girls night” my friend says to them. We may as well have just shown the guys some skin, because we seem to have turned them on somehow. They were both smiling and still hanging out at our table, at some point one guy even placed his drink on our table.
11:43 PM We ask them to leave again, they just smile. So I looked at them both and said” listen guys, thanks for the drinks but we are not interested.” They got even more excited at this point.
11:50 PM We exit the bar
Oldest dating lesson in the book: Accepting a drink is a verbal contract with a stranger. Indeed he wants something in return: YOU
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I hate to say this, but this is typical stupid dude mentality at work. You do something nice and you expect a guaranteed payoff. Well if you’re going to try to seduce women at a bar, you should know your odds, and that it’s much more complicated than just buying her an expensive drink. “I’m rich, bitch” doesn’t quite work on its own. What happened to charming ? What happened to not forcing yourself on the girl ?
A small tips: Don’t offer drinks to strangers as a way to introduce yourself. There are plenty of better ways.
Cheers !
You should never have paid the shots !! What a jerk!
whaaaat!!! why did you pay the shots?!?!!! Where was this???
Sinners.
Watch out ,u never know what’s in the drink or if it’s spiked ,maybe they want to take advantage
So true! No such thing as a free meal, or drink!