Yesterday, part-time Time Out dating columnist and full-time Internet menace Julia Allison wondered, via Craigslist, about "the craziest, most unique way you ever approached a stranger to ask her out on a date." We set out to scoop Julia. A most unique story follows.
I once met a girl at the dance club below One on One...forget what it was called. I'm not much for picking up girls at clubs, but I was playing wing-man for a recently single friend and decided to play along. I went with the "Everything In Common" approach, wherein I had "Everything In Common" with my chosen victim (target?). She was a graphic designer, and OMG, so was I (I'm a marketing manager). She went to Pace, as did I (NYU, bitches). We also liked indie rock (alternative), summer on Long Island (Hell no), and Vodka (Whisky). We went back to my place for some post-bar coitus, and it went swimmingly. As we wrapped up and had awkward-stranger-after-sex-chatter, I straight out told her I lied about mostly everything I told her (including my name), and what do you know? She had twisted a few things as well. Our mutual bullshittery and moderately good (albeit drunken) sex was like a match made in heaven, and we're still dating a year later.Actually! This story warms my heart WAY more than Patrick 'NYGirlOfMyDreams" Moberg's.