Groupon Event

About a week after I got back from Club Getaway I saw a Groupon deal for the world’s largest speed dating event and singles party at a great bar with pool tables and ping pong called Slate.  I convinced my girlfriends L, M and N (who I will going forward call my wing women) to buy the Groupon as well and go with me to the event.   The event was a huge party with multiple speed dating events that you could choose from that you had to sign up for in advance.  You could pick one of the speed dating sessions and the rest of the night you could mix and mingle.  They had a bunch of themes which seemed like a lot of fun.  The event was 4 hours long and there were about 4 speed dating sessions each hour.  I chose to attend the Tall Men speed dating which was scheduled for about halfway through the event.  This event was amazing!  I had so much fun.  I was the first of my friends to arrive.  I was worried about being alone but it was unnecessary.  They had ice breaker questionnaires that you could use to approach people and when you filled the whole thing out you won a prize.  Say no more, if there is a prize for anything, I'm IN!  Also they had pool tables and ping pong so you could play by yourself or with your friends and it wouldn’t take long for someone to approach you to join in.  I also approached another woman who was there by herself and asked if she wanted to join my group of wing women.  She was really cool and we exchanged emails at the end of the night.  The icebreaker was really helpful and I really wanted to win the prize but eventually I found that I didn’t need it.  It was really fun just talking to people.  Once my friends arrived we actually found that we kind of split up and would occasionally find each other if we needed an escape from someone or just a break from the get to know you chit chat.  I also found it fun to introduce my friends to guys that I met who weren’t quite for me but were really nice and cute.  My friends told me I was great at it and should work for the company that was running the event.  Eventually it was time for my speed dating session.  It turns out that they were running really behind schedule because of the volume of people there, so I decided to skip the speed dating…afterall, I could visually pick out the tall guys who I would probably end up going on speed dates with.  At the bar I met a really nice guy, S, who got me a glass of water when he ordered his drink so I wouldn’t have to wait.  He offered to buy me a drink, but it was nearing the end of the night and I was done drinking.  We decided to go downstairs and play pool and ran into his friend, K, who happened to be talking to one of my friends and we all played together.   I made out with S some and we exchanged numbers and emails.  I also left the party with emails and/or numbers from about 8 other guys.  All of my wing women also had numbers and emails.  It was going to be great fun seeing what happened from there.

Following the Slate event, I emailed back and forth with a bunch of the guys…some of whom never asked me out.  S was going on a vacation right after the event and although he emailed me when he returned we never ended up getting together.  I did go out on dates with 2 of the guys, and maybe it was the excitement of the event or the shorter interactions there, but I found that while they were cute, I didn’t have much in common with them.

I was so happy that my wing women went to this event with me.  It was perfect practice for talking with strangers and I had a fantastic time.