As a single 26-year-old, I want to tell a woman at the bar that I’m not like every other jerk who has approached her in the past; I simply want to get her phone number so I can take her out to dinner sometime and go from there. That’s it.
But when a single man approaches a woman at a bar, her convenient defense mechanism is to turn away. As a result, the solo single male who spends all night working up the courage to speak to a woman of interest usually doesn’t get the shot he deserves.
Enter Rent Mr. Right Now Inc., a company founded by Wendy Ralph.
Enter credibility.
I turned to Rent Mr. Right Now, which provides singles the services of a wingman, or “wingchix,” for nights on the town. Before my evening with Wendy began, she conducted a background check and explained the purpose of her presence was solely to “support my cause.” Our bar hopping brought us to seven Bucktown pubs. In the 15 minutes at each establishment, Wendy would ask, “All right, what’s catching your eye in here?” as if we were shopping for cars. I’d point, she’d attack.
Her approaches were amazingly simple. In fact, more often than not she’d just ask where the woman got her handbag. This question set into motion a course of events that had me repeatedly speaking to women. Of course, things would have worked out differently if I had inquired about the handbag, but my attractive helper was able to knock down the walls women surround themselves in at bars. When she introduced me as a friend she had known since college, it gave me something guys lack in bars, credibility. Of course, I had to lie to get it. But I also got phone numbers. Now if she’d just start a company to make women call me back.
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