I find it hard too when two or more others of the "opposite" sex :-) are talking together and I'm not included. And I don't like waiting rooms either, like waiting for a bus or something that never comes. I use to be afraid someone would ask me who I was or what I was doing there and that I wouldn't have a good enough answer and would get thrown out :-)
Let us know how it all went tonight Brian. We women want to know