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Originally Posted by Mr. Stranger
Once they did an experiment, where they asked a bunch of geeks who were not so good with ladies to go to a bar and get the number of a lady they like. The outcome was that all of them got a number except one. Guess why? Because he was the only one who didn't have the courage to talk to a lady and ask for her number. I don't think he was less worthy than his colleagues, but obviously he was left behind because he didn't do a simple thing, which is to say few words and ask for a number from a lady he liked.
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I obviously don't know the "geek" nor the details of the experiment nor how he came to participate in it. However, I see a possibility that it may have been more important to him not to get pressured into doing something he didn't really want to do, than to come back with a "success story" and some stranger's phone number.
He may have gone along with the experiment because he thought it would be bad form not to, but if he wasn't really looking forward to having any of those ladies in his life then "not having the courage" may have been just his gentler alternative to telling the experimenter where to get off.
Years ago I was temporarily living in a city where I knew hardly anybody. Someone had recommended one particular piano bar as a good place to meet people so I thought I'd go take a look. I walked through the door to find about fifteen people sitting with their backs to the bar watching for whoever was going to come through the door next. I think there was about 20 feet of bare floor between me and them. I found I wasn't up for making either a grand entrance or a lame one so I executed a quick U-turn in the doorway and left. "Not my kind of place," I thought, and that conclusion seemed to suit me a whole lot better than "Oops, I need to improve my stranger-in-a-bar skills."
