Weekend Update: Mixed Bag Edition March 19, 2006
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I may be the only person who does this, but when I’m in mixed company and I have no interest in the men there, I totally chat up their female friends. We giggle and dish and – dare I say – flirt!
I caught myself doing it on Friday night. I knew I wasn’t even remotely interested in any of the three guys at my table and so I spent a bit of the night talking with one of the other women there. We bonded over an Elton John song and hit all of the important topics:
- Being a closet American Idol fan at age 26
- Falling off of the treadmill at the gym
- Her pretty sparkly earrings
- How green just didn’t work with my outfit that night
- Subtly slutty “going out” shirts versus overtly slutty tops
Two rounds an a few Apple Pucker shots later (it was St. Paddy’s Day after all!) we were old friends, bonded over a shared love of bling and an inability to resist the almost obscene sex look of one Constantine Maroulis.
Saturday I did some day parading with a pal before we got fancy pimento cheese sandwiches for lunch and shoe shopped at our favorite boutique. (I didn’t buy any this time. But oh was I tempted.)
I watched basketball in the afternoon to early evening. Cursed CBS for flipping from game to game and almost sending me into an epileptic fit trying to figure out what game I was watching and who to cheer for and what city they were in and what team was what color. I want to watch a game and I want to watch the entire thing, not 5 minutes of this game and then 45 seconds of another and then 20 minutes of a third. Are we, as a people, really so ADD that we can’t watch an ENTIRE basketball game?
Hmmph.
Met Southern Belle and SB’s Boyfriend out that evening, spilt a glass of $8 wine on SB’s jeans and almost broke a wine glass in the process. Not cool. At all.
Met B and six of his guy friends at another bar. Danced around like a moron in my three-inch heels, flirting with all of the boys. It is fun to flirt with boys when you know it is all in jest. Two of the guys were married, one was in a serious relationship and three are pals. Then there’s B. Whatever.
One of the newly-married guys slipped his ring off to let B see if wearing a ring would get him a different kind of attention in the bar. It didn’t seem to.
B’s roomie repeatedly tried to balance his drink in my cleavage. It was cold and uncomfortable, to say the least.
I was play flirting with one of the Married Men who made a joke about taking me home.
“I couldn’t sleep with you! You are married!” I exclaimed.
“Married men cheat all of the time. Come on,” he joked.
“No, that would make you an asshole,” I said.
I paused. “And in that case, I could totally go for it, because I apparently exclusively sleep with assholes.”
We devolved into laughter.
“Well, I only sleep with bitches,” he said.
“F-ck you!” I yelled, waving my hand playfully in his face.
He laughed. “Let’s go!”
It was a pretty rambunctiously fun all around. B announced an after party at his place, so I left and waited for a good 15 minutes at his house (literally seconds from the bar) and when the crew of boys never showed up, I slipped “Don’t Bother” by Shakira into the CD player and returned chez moi. I toasted a whole-wheat waffle and snacked on it while I watched the opening scenes of a random episode of “Grey’s Anatomy.”
At 2:45 a.m. B texted to find out where I was.
I sent back, “In bed.”
sounds like you had a great time… harmlessly flirting…
and you’re not the only one who ‘flirt’ with the girls when i’m in mixed company and have no interest in the men there haha!
flirting is fun! and don’t be embarrassed about liking american idol - we’re obsessed!
LMFAO- this post cracked me up! bwahahhahaha
“And in that case, I could totally go for it, because I apparently exclusively sleep with assholes.”
Oh oh oh! You are soooo preaching to the choir on that one girl!
as to the 2:45am checkin text: LOL, yeah, i’ve got one that does that too.
Boys are dumb.
jo — Girls are so much fun to flirt with!
B & A — Oh, I’m only mildly embarassed …
Jenn — Why thank you, darlin!
Yummy — lol, I’m going to make CBS T-shirts that say “boys are dumb.”
those tshirts are already made, you just need to add some personal charm to them and ship them out!
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super post, charming! i want to party with you! you sound like a good time! you crack me up with your one-liners. that is something i would say!
i am only platonically flirting with you. because there are no guys here i’m interested in at the present time. (no, you aren’t the only one who does that! i “flirt” with girls too! i just never realized it until you pointed it out.)
totally agree about the basketball, btw. CBS (the tv station, not you) was getting on my nerves too. i can’t remember–are you an LSU or a Florida fan? either way, i think you are in the sweet 16…congrats!
and why do guys take so freakin’ long to do stuff? it’s like they are on a different time or something. is there a Male Time Zone? when you tell a girl there’s an afterparty right now, it is taken literally.
i guess it’s another example of men are from mars….
VIRGINIA BELLE! That kind of language will NOT be tolerated on my blog! We do NOT mention Florida, gators, the Swamp, Spurrier, Zook, Meyer or the color orange here. This is supposed to be a kind and loving place. My HAPPY place.
So, no, I am NOT a Florida fan. (How dare you! Really!) ;P
Otherwise, I agree with your comment. Clueless! All of them!
oops. sorry. you are preaching to the choir! i don’t like The Team of Reptilian Losers Which Shall Remain Nameless any more than you do. I hate orange. have you heard that rap song the team recorded? it’s very degrading to women. i’ll send you a link.
but unfortunately, i am now a Spurrier fan. *VB winces and ducks.* i can’t help it! he’s our coach right now! i have no choice!
It’s almost that time of year again. Repo is all excited about going to go see the spring practices since they are open to the public.
i can’t wait until FB season. although it seems we never play each other despite being in the same conference…i wonder why. oh well. that means we can still be blog buddies.
my deepest and most humble of apologies.
um, ok, i just looked it up. it wasn’t The Nameless Reptilian Team, it was Univ. of Miami that recorded a degrading rap song. J/K
OK… WAIT A SECOND…
Not to change subjects from dating to football…. But I am an AVID NOT-FAN of both the Reptilians that shall not be named, and the Southern Florida Blowhards (Can’t spell “Scum” with UM)…. so i’m curious, where are you ladies from? and what team DO you root for?
Toodles,
From a second generation ‘Nole