Eye Contact

Eye contact, eye contact, eye contact. Some people go to the bar to find dates, some people go to the bar to have fun, and some people go to to the bar to make eye contact. We ought to be using the Smile as the universal signal that we want a person to pick us up, but nope, we're using eye contact, even though it could mean a lot of other things. For example, it could mean "I am scanning the room." Or it could mean "I feel your eyes staring at me but I just need to make sure...OH SHIT Shit shit shit -- I accidently made eye contact with you." I use the One Strike rule at bars. If I accidently make eye contact with a man I RUN AWAY. Another thing that works once in a while if you're about to strike out and there's no hope in getting away is to look at the person like they're a moldy sandwich. Sometimes that works, but not usually. It will often just give them the excuse to come up and ask why you're not having fun or why you never smile, which I get a lot.