Thursday January 15th, 2004
My Party
We reached the bar around 10pm. About two dozen people were inside but it was difficult to tell if any of them were there for me or just out for a beer. I wasn’t sure how to proceed until Dan pointed out the people wearing home made T-Shirts that said “zerosexlife.com” and had my logo. It was touching and frightening at the same time. I know they came out to meet me but I still felt weird about the whole thing so I decided to get a beer before talking to any of them.
I stood at the bar with Dan and Scott waiting to get the bartender’s attention. “Can I buy you a drink?” I turned to see a woman who easily could have been an underwear model. “You’re Mike right?” Trish bought me a beer and I talked with her for about twenty minutes. She loves the site and if she wasn’t engaged she’d take me to the bathroom and do things to me that would make a pornstar blush. “If it’s any consolation I can e-mail you naked pictures of me.” It seems coming out tonight was a good choice.
By midnight I had talked to about thirty different people who had come out to see me. I was almost sloppy drunk and turning down free drinks left and right. It was around that time that a birthday party walked through the door. I noticed some fairly attractive women I would normally hit on if I wasn’t talking to people who drove up from San Diego to see me.
Around 1am I was saying good bye to a few people who came out to see me and Trish was back, but she wasn’t alone. With Trish was a very attractive brunette I had noticed walking in with the Birthday party. “This is my friend Mike I was telling you about.” With that I was introduced to Steph. As I talked to Steph, I could see Trish in my peripheral walking around talking to other people she had met who had come out at my request. At various points people would come up and thank me for something or say something that just made me look awesome. When Steph got up to go to the bathroom two girls from the group went in after her. I don’t know if playing it cool was going to work as I wasn’t the only person who’d been drinking.
Steph came out around the same time last call was announced. With a full audience in attendance I asked for her phone number before she went back to join her friends. This was followed by hand shakes and hugs from people I had met that day telling me everything from “good luck” to how proud they were. If I can hit on an attractive girl with a full audience watching my every move I’ve come a long, long way. All and all it was a great night. I’m glad I decided to give things one last try.
