Ladies, has this ever happened to you? You’re at a bar with a female friend when a guy walks up to chat with your friend and totally ignores you. You’re left standing there awkwardly, staring into your gin and tonic as if it’s the most interesting thing in the world. Your night has just been made worse by The Solo Artist.
Gents, there’s a reason the wingman is so important. If you leave your target girl’s friend hanging, she’ll cockblock you out of boredom. Here’s why: When a group of guys go to bars, if they lose each other in the course of the night, they just assume everyone made it home (to their own or someone else’s) okay. Women tend to arrive at a bar together and leave together. No chick left behind. If your target girl notices that her friend is wandering off, she’ll be more likely to ditch you.
Get yourself a good wingman. They chat up the friend, you chat up the girl. No one is bored. Magic! Or, if you don’t have a wingman, be sure to talk to both women at the outset. This will make you seem like a quality guy to the friend, so she’s more likely to give the girl you like the thumbs up. We’re all about that stamp of approval when it comes to potentially sketchy guys in bars.
And it’s not necessarily true that the wingman gets the “lesser” girl. When I was in college, a friend of mine directed his wingman to chat up a girl he himself wasn’t interested in, and the wingman ended up dating this girl for several years.
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