Hey guys, before the field report I wanted to mention my background quick. I used to sarge regularly about 3 years ago and started getting decent (wouldn't say I was great or anything though), until I picked up a bartender and got into LTR with her. Since then I got really lazy and haven't sarged at all (free drinks and easy sex spoiled me). Over the last year, a lot of friction started building up between us, and recently I started avoiding her calls. We have sort of drifted apart and not seeing each other anymore. I've been hesitant getting back into the game, however. So the field report was my first attempt at a sarge in the last 3 years.
I was on work-related travel with some guys in the middle of Arizona, we finished our job a day early so we drove up to San Diego for a night. Needless to say, all we had was our work clothes. I had a Hollister shirt and some cheap jeans, and my friend's attire wasn't much different. This clothing would be fine here in upstate New York, where I live, but compared to everyone else downtown in San Diego, we looked like hobos. Oddly enough, that didn't seem to prevent girls from opening me.
Since the company was paying for our dinner, we went to Donovan's steak house. While there my friend kept mentioning that 3 girls at a table nearby kept checking us out. He also mentioned that only one of them was hot. I was sitting with my back towards them so I didn't get to see them until we were leaving. At this point the hot Asian girl at that table stopped us, saying "hi guys". We chatted for a bit, but neither one of us wanted to take one for the team with the UGs, plus a third coworker (who was also with us) needed a ride back to the hotel.
We dropped him off and went back downtown. I'm not really sure what I was expecting since I didn't remember any of my openers or routines I used from 3 years ago. We walked around the downtown area for a bit, stopped at one bar and grabbed a round of drinks and kept walking around. For some reason a group of girls in a cab waived at us (there were plenty of other pedestrians around), maybe our clothing looked so plain it was actually helping us peacock
.There were huge lines of people to a couple clubs, so we decided not to go there. Some other bars looked very selective about the clothing of people they let in, so we didn't try those either. We did end up in a bar that didn't have a line and didn't seem picky about our clothing. I went up to the counter to get a drink, and ended up next to where HB9 was sitting. She looked at me and started whispering something to her friend. I pretended not to notice, assuming it was because I invaded her personal space. She looked at me again, and started whispering with her friend again. I couldn't notice any IOI in either of those two glances she threw at me (no smile, no prolonged eye contact).
Then, out of nowhere, she turns towards me again and taps me on my shoulder. I turn towards her and she asks me if I'm Swedish. I told her I was Russian and asked what made her think I was Swedish. Without even answering my question, she cracked up, put her arm on my shoulder, threw some other Russian name at me (Alexander ...don't remember the last name) and asked me if I knew who he was. I didn't, and she asked me how in the world I could not know him, saying he was the most important Russian. Figuring he might have been some historical figure I was not aware of for some reason, I started getting embarrassed, but played it off jokingly. She then told me that guy was a Russian character on Sex in the City, who was apparently the main character's lover or something. So I told her I'd be more embarrassed if I DID know who he was. She then nicknamed me after that character, and that was my name for the rest of the night (well, another IOI I guess in addition to the kino she already has been laying heavily on me).
She told me she and her friend were from NYC. She also introduced me to some other guy sitting next to her, who I didn't think was part of the group. The guy apparently opened the set several minutes before me and was mingling with the girls until HB9 got distracted and opened me. A few minutes later she got really mad at him because he put his finger in the mouth of her other friend. While she was scolding him off, I figured I'd open her other friend too to avoid getting shut out (and get those drinks for me and my friend who was still patiently waiting at the other end of the bar).
Her friend was also pretty cute (HB8.5) and definitely seemed the saner of the two (she didn't keep throwing Sex in the City references at me expecting me to pick up on them) and also seemed more introverted. HB8.5 also told me not to hate HB9 for the yelling at the guy, that she's usually not like that (another IOI, she wouldn't be justifying her friend to some random guy). When HB9 calmed down (which happened pretty fast), I called my friend over and introduced him to the set. I teased HB9 for thinking I was Swedish, and told her that Swedes have blonde hair, she said "oh yea!" and said she felt stupid for making that mistake.
HB9 asked about the scar my friend had on his cheek, I said it was a drug deal gone wrong. At this point it was hard to tell if HB9 had too much to drink, she kept trying to tell jokes expecting me and my friend to laugh. Me, my friend, and even her gf were looking at her confused. She didn't appear wasted though. Shortly after her friend (HB8.5) said she needed to go to the ladies room, at this point HB9 said she needed to go as well (obviously they were going to discuss us there). Before leaving HB9 gave me a quick backrub and asked us not to go anywhere.
After they came back, HB8.5 went straight for the exit. HB9 closed their tab and waved us goodbye, we were completely confused to see them leave like that. Both, me and my friend were very disappointed since they were probably two of the hottest girls at that bar. Obviously I dropped the ball, I had no material and wasn't even the one opening, but I was certain HB9 wanted me until the restroom break.
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There are definitely some big mistakes I have done, such as too little kino on my part, and almost no negging, no DHV stories or routines, not to mention the two girls were dressed way classier than us, but I've never seen so many IOIs in a row followed by girls walking off, maybe someone else understands better what happened. Some of my theories are:
1.) HB8.5 didn't like us
2.) HB8.5 thought HB9 could have been making a fool of herself and figured we weren't interested
3.) HB8.5 didn't like my friend, since she was friendly towards me earlier (or maybe just polite)
4.) HB8.5 was feeling sick and needed to go home