On The Hunt For The Perfect Girl

You ever felt like dating means trying to figure out in advance or via the internet if a girl is totally psycho? I do. I read the profiles and peruse the pictures to try and ascertain her tendencies to flip out over little stuff. Maybe that is just because I’ve dated enough of the crazy ones in my quest to find a nice girl that I no longer want to take a chance.

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The frustration that this has given me led to some self observations. When I first meet a girl, I love it when she is spontaneous and exciting. I like that she is unpredictable and a social butterfly. It is only later that I realize that means she is also unreliable and slightly nuts. Because, hey, nuts is exciting in the beginning.

The girl that showed up a little early, didn’t drink more than two beers, and was still in her work clothes at the bar has always seemed boring to me. Now I see the error of my ways, I realize that this girl, this type of chick, is the one that I’ve been looking for.

She is the nice girl. She’s dependable and responsible. She is also the one that gets passed over by guys like me. Her friend that drank a little too much and got a little frisky was so much more flamboyant that I barely noticed the quiet woman in the background who motioned the waiter to switch the drinks from gin to water.

Guys, we have to stop letting ourselves get distracted by the flashy girls. Those are the ones who will freak out if we want a guys night while they flirt with every boy in sight. The constant phone calls and emails seem sweet at first but become suffocating with time. We need to start looking out for her friend in the background. The one who brought enough money to pay the tab and was interested in what kind of work I do, as opposed to the drunk mess who just asked what kind of car I drove. Once I noticed that wallflower, I realized that she was the nice girl. Who also happened to have an amazing rack underneath those scrubs.