Sweet-Tooth Gets His Just Desserts

[sweet-tooth]

Reposted from another forum. The situation is I went out with some guys from the local lair. As the only guy with bootcamp experience, I felt a weird combination of performance pressure and superiority. The results weren't pretty.

Anyway, if anyone has thoughts on this or how to avoid it in the future, I'd love to hear them.
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Raise your hand if you didn't see this coming.

Between my cocky posts on this forum and my general smugness about being teh only guy my group with 'bootcamp experience' the Patron Saint of PUAs decided Mrs. Tooth's handsome son needed to be cut down a peg.

In hindsight, it wasn't a terrible night, but because I was so busy concentrating on 'looking good in front of the guys,' I forgot to focus on the women I was talking to with predictable results. As a further blow to the ego, one of the non-bootcamp guys hooked a woman and then decided not to escalate because she 'wasn't cute enough for him'

MY BRAIN: Well, she was cute enough for ME. And she was into that guy. And he threw her back. How can this be? I'm on the Alumni forums. I'm wearing my favorite t-shirt (The Max Rebo Band Live at Jabba's Palace). That's it. I'm destined to die a broken man, unloved and alone.

When the wheels come off the self-esteem-mobile, the crash is never pretty. I bet the staff was there until five in the morning cleaning itty bitty bits of Sweet-Tooth ego out of the corners.

Looking back, it was probably the best thing that could have happened to me last night.

Let's see how well I learn from the experience.