Catching Clichés
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Twenty minutes later, a vibrant young man started walking towards our table. His wavy sun-bleached hair shifted seductively with every step. A beaded shark tooth necklace hung around his neck. He looked like he just finished a surf competition or stepped off a Hawaiian Topic commercial.
My mind was already picturing us surfing the shores of Honolulu together. I was wearing my green two-piece bikini and he was wearing blue and white floral patterned shorts. I could almost feel the roll of the waves, the smell of the ocean, when one of the girls broke my concentration by whispering, "Good lord he's hot."
He broke into a smile as we met his gaze. "Wassup ladies?" he asked, suddenly nodding like a bobble-head. The fear of another handsome disaster began to spread through my body. I tried to fight it. Fate couldn't deal us another cruel blow so soon after the first.
"Just having some fun," said one of the girls hoping to catch his attention. "Awesome," he replied, while continuing to nod his head. "Awesome." Then he too went silent. As if admiring his conversation handiwork. But he apparently was verbally spent, tired of saying his four words and had nothing else to offer.
Knowing he'd stayed too long without saying anything, he exited with an awkward, "Well I'll let you get back to your conversation, maybe I'll talk to you again later." "He didn't even talk to us right now," complained one of the girls, thoroughly disgusted. "If he could've acted even remotely cool, I would have been all over him."
Eight more men greeted us with equally disastrous results. Their attempts to engage us in conversation included pathetic pickup lines, uncomfortable fidgeting and talking into our cleavage. Others sent drinks, but didn't even have the courage to approach us.
We couldn't drink enough to make these men appear attractive. As soon as they opened their mouths they seemed to stick their foot in it or suddenly become lost for words. We couldn't believe the state of today's men. They seemed to have forgotten how to communicate with women.
A half hour before midnight one of the girls' boyfriends joined us. He wasn't half as good looking as the surfer, but he greeted us all with a friendly hello, remembered our names and looked us in our eyes when he asked us how our night was going.
Before we even had a chance to begin complaining, his face suddenly went serious and started to slowly scan the room around us. My heart started to beat faster sensing something was wrong. I tried to follow his gaze but couldn't spot anything.
"I think we should leave. This place is a death trap."
"What's wrong," I asked, my heart suddenly racing. I noticed the other girls were now glancing around as well.
"There's no way you girls could look this hot without setting off the sprinkler systems." He shook his head in mock dismay at the metal sprinkler heads above us, broke into a seductive grin, and offered his hand to his girlfriend in mock concern.
She took his hand and pulled herself out of the booth, her eyes locked onto his, filled with lust. "Well you better find some way to cool me down then," she said. His grin broke into a full smile. "I think a bubble bath and massage might do the trick," he calmly replied.
And with that, the least physically attractive man that had approached us all night, had made us swoon in only seconds. He had transformed himself into the most attractive man in the bar because he knew how to talk to women.
As our girlfriend whisked him away, the rest of us were left to wonder what life would be like beside a man like that, secretly wishing it was our hand in his - and not hers.
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