[FR] Office Party & Clubbing (Detailed/Long)

Started the night out at an office party for the company I work with. There was a good amount of liquor and beer involved, and people were getting pretty tipsy and drunk. Great fun all around and awesome way to start the night.

We had food catered to us and it was served by two girls that work with the catering company. One of them was an HB7 Albanian chick with a thick accent and the other was sort of an annoying HB3 who laughed after everything she said.

To start out, I introduced myself alongside my boss and one co-worker. My boss was dropping some "good-spirited" alpha lines on the HB7 Albanian girl, but nothing too crazy since he's married. Once my boss and co-worker left, I stayed to chat with the caterers for a bit. I purposefully started the conversation by talking to the HB3 first and finding a little bit about her... sort of to keep the HB7 waiting and so she could get a sense of who I am while I was talking to the HB3. Switched the conversation to focus on the HB7 and we had a few enjoyable conversations. Nothing too in-depth, though.

[I was feeling pretty suave the whole night since I had a nice dress shirt, tie, and pants on. More on this and its effect later.]

I had plans to go to a club after the office party with some friends, so I thought about inviting the HB7 Albanian chick to come along afterwards, but I found out she was only 19 and had to bring trays and stuff back to her work anyway. Actually, later after the office party (and after these 2 girls left), I ended up calling the catering company she works for to see if I could talk to her over the phone, but she had already left her work apparently. No big deal, still enjoyed the conversations.

--Second part of the night--

So we leave the office party, enter a club and my buddy and I scope out the area. The club was pretty poppin' and there were some decent looking girls. At this point, I was already pretty drunk from the office party. I walked by a table with a group of girls and might have accidentally bumped into one of them while passing by. I turned around and politely said "excuse me" and one of the girls immediately says hi and asks what my name is.

Here is where my attire comes to play. To me, it was a rare sight to see a girl doing the approaching and introducing herself, so I think it might have had something to do with how good I looked. The aforementioned office party was Mad Men-themed, so we were all trying to look classy. It was definitely a good conversation starter, as one of the girls looked to her friend and gaspingly said "Hey derp, Maaad Meennn". Apparently this girl's friend was a big fan of the show. That's cool.

However, there was a third girl (HB8) at the table to whom I did most of the talking with. Again, let me reinforce that I was still drunk/drinking at this point. I had to get very close to this girl and almost yell in her ear to talk to her considering the music was so loud. I remember putting my arm around her with no hesitation at all and basically hanging on to her while we chatted. This wouldn't have happened if I was sober. Definitely need to do this more. I was so close to her face that we could have easily made out, but I think she may have had a boyfriend with her. We chatted for a good 15 minutes, and I was able to get her phone number and gave her a call immediately so that she would have my number. I remember her being pulled away by someone to go dance but I was pretty gone and the place wasn't well-lit so I couldn't really tell who pulled her off.

Went back to chill with my friends for a bit. One of my buddies suggested that I buy a drink for her. I didn't want to pay more than I had to, so my friend gave me some cash for a drink and mentioned that if it didn't work out, then he could just drink it. I went back to the table of girls and held the drink out towards the HB8, hoping she would come and accept my offer, but apparently she had just opened a new drink and (this part's kinda funny acually) she came over and clanked her bottle against the one in my hand. She probably thought I was going for a cheers motion.

After that, I pretty much ejected and went home with my buddies.

Today, I sent a text to the girl's # I got last night, but no response. All I asked was, "Is this derp?". I'm not even 100% sure if I said the correct name. I need to get better with remembering names.

--tl;dr--

Chatted with a cute Albanian girl at an office party, went to a club afterwards and chatted up an HB8 & managed to # close.

I'm just glad I was able to have a good time, regardless of the outcome. Transitioning from the office party to the club was also a good way to stay in state and keep the energy or flow going.