| Thanks for the tips. I did a few searches after posting and found more info on this.
Scamp, I read a few of your FR's, good reads.
That's one thing I need to work on, I DO find myself F'ing with my cell phone too much, whether alone or out with friends. Just something I do when I start to get bored.
As far as expanding my circle of male friends, that's something I want to do, I'm just not sure how to go about it. Seems like when out, single guys arent' really receptive to talking to other guys, I actually had a guy say "dude, WTF do you want?" when I tried to strike up a conversation at a bar.
As I'm writing on this I'm just remembering that I had good luck a few weeks ago talking to a couple. I got along with the girl really well, and talked to the BF enough as so he didn't feel threatened. A buddy of mine and I were out (his GF actually let him out of the house, haha), and we started playing pool with them, and the conversation started from there.
Maybe I ought to get into sets like that, who knows, maybe the girl will have some single friends that are around, or showing up at some point. At the very least, I have someone to talk to and can put up the appearance of not being there alone.
My sticking pint is that while I have no problem talking to people once I get into a conversation, it's the initial approach that poses the problem. I'm not the most outgoing person, so that initial contact takes alot of mental effort on my part.
Oh well, it's something to work on.
I live in a great town for this, as it's a big summer destination, so there are always tons of people out, even during the week. Half the pople in town are tourists or people that just live here for the summer.
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