The Game

You walk in to the club that is packed from wall to wall with potential and all willing candidates, mostly single, or so you think, all with the same agenda as you in mind. To hook tonight. Some want to hook up just for tonight, some for their holiday in Cape Town, and some are honestly here wanting to meet that one person that will complete their lives and be their partner for the rest of their lives....in a club....at 3am...

As with everything in life though, there is a game we all play. Its called the flirting game, and it is not simple. The rules change from candidate to candidate but the structure of the game remains unchanged throughout, and it goes a little like this:

1) You place yourself on the dance floor in a very strategic place where you can not only get a view of everybody in the club, but you are in or around the passing traffic.
2) You start to dance, performing the best moves you have in you, having a great time for yourself but ALWAYS concious of who is looking at you, simply because you yourself are looking around at others.
3) You spot a potential that is pleasing to the eye, and now it becomes interesting.
4) For about 1 to 2 hours you spend glimpsing at each other, smiling every now and then, but mostly pretending to ignore them and having a great time with your friends.
5) You do the walk by test: Walk past them, right up close to them, and smile right at them. If they smile back, you are in, if they turn away, revert back to step 1.
6) After repeating step 5 twice more, you can now move in and offer to buy them a drink. It is ALWAYS a good idea to rather speak to them in front of a crowded bar with people pushing past you to get another vodka and coke, while you discuss the complexities of life, love and the latest movies at Nouveau.
7) In this crucial step you establish their available status. If they are single, and still able to stand up straight and make full sentences, then move on to step 8. If they are "there with their girlfriend", or "in an open relationship", or "its complicated" move right back to step 1.
8) They are now able to speak in full sentences and can give you their number. Take it and vow to phone them the next morning...

....But that becomes a whole new game to be discussed in another series. Happy playing guys!!!!!