Last night (Friday) I was working away on my computer, exhausted from the day but at the same time wanting to go out. Mike and I had made plans to go to the Cravin Misbehavin’ Valentines Singles Party, but I hadn’t heard from him, and by 10pm, I was fed up with waiting and was getting ready to go out by myself when he calls.
“Hey, I’m just leaving Hennessey now.” I tell him I’ll meet him outside the Commodore Ballroom.
I get there and it doesn’t look promising from the outside. I thought there was supposed to be 1000 people, surely there would be a lineup outside. After some deliberating, where I convince Mike to stop being a cheap bastard, we go in.
It was quite busy, perhaps 500 people (half full, I’ve seen the place with more) and a lot of obviously single people. Let the games begin!
I chat up this girl as Mike gets me a drink (water, boys, only water) and she starts grinding up on me. Then I follow the guys to a different part of the hall and I ask another random girl what was the deal with some people holding onto some playing cards.
“Oh, you’re supposed to find someone with the same card as you. Then she is your match”.
(me) “Then what? We get to make out or something?”
(she laughs) “Sure, why not?”
We look at each other for a bit. I say, “You know we don’t need a card to make out”.
So we did, haaa.
I follow the guys upstairs and then I see her following me. So I introduce her to the guys and find out more about her story. Next I take her to the dance floor, but alas, there was no chemisty and she wasn’t my type, so I thanked her and went back to the guys.
The rest of the night was ok. Because the ballroom was so huge and only half full of singles, there wasn’t that many people to talk to. I ran into a few clients of mine, and spent a lot of time by the bar and candy area as that was where the most traffic was. It was more of the same. Standing around and talking to the women who passed by. Some more kisses here and there…
There were two women whom I met who really stood out. One was a beautiful brunette, who was sitting at the side with her friend. I was intrigued by her smile and even more interested in her outlook on relationships. I shared with her my way of the cube and I thought she’d actually be fun to hang out with. At some point in my interaction with her, I felt someone pushing up against my back, but I didn’t check to see who it was. It turned out is was Mike who was talking to another girl. He eventually took her upstairs and made out with her, I’m told.
The second woman was this really beautiful blonde…a Leo, no doubt (love Leo’s) and we have a quick but really deep (as deep as one can get when quick) interaction where I told her that if she and I were dating, I’d want her around all of the time. So I’m there, holding onto her hand like I normally do, connecting with her delicately through mind and touch, when two of her friends try to come by and pull her away. They actually grabbed her arm and tried to pull her. BUT she wouldn’t leave and wanted to talk more. So one of her friends leave, while the other points at my hand holding her hand and raises serious objection. I, wanting to get to know my new friend, spot Mike come up behind me, so I introduce him to her friend, while I try to memorize blondie’s phone number. As it turned out, Mike and her friend had a nice invigorating chat themselves, so I tried to verify my memory of said phone number with her and got it wrong (I heard it wrong). I put it in my cell phone and had her check it just to be sure. I’m really liking this girl.
Then we notice that the place suddenly became almost empty. I guess at 1:30am, Vancouver’s singles had better places to be. I took a stroll down Granville and ran into Stefan and Greg, then off to home and back to work on my Sunday event again.
Ronald Lee
VSB owner/moderator