After three nights trolling bars, our (appropriately dolled-up) reporter heard the good, the bad, and the ugly of how guys hit on girls
CONFESSION: WHEN IT comes to meeting men, I’m not a bar person. I find most of my dates through setups from friends and have been known to be a repeat offender on dating apps.
Then came this assignment: Spend a few nights out on the town and come back with the best — and most hideous — approaches men use to pick up women for a night on the tiles.
So I dressed in uniform — skin, make-up, curves, black dress, boots, more skin — and headed out on three separate nights to a steak house, a hotel bar, and a neighbourhood watering hole.
Men, I learned many things.
The “What the hell?”
OPENER “How old are you?” asked a drunk Brit within 11 seconds of my arrival at the steak house.
MY REACTION
Eww. If you want to be attractive to a woman, say she’s pretty, not old.
OUTCOME He was so handsy the bartender ran interference.
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