Ramblin' comments of a set I had this weekend

[Archaeopteryx]

I was in San Antonio last weekend hanging out with my friend. He absolutely hates the community, and constantly critizes it as being fake, and unethical.

Anywho, we went into this damn ventage store. I initiated conversation with the girl working and my friend also jumped in. I wasn't super into the girl and my friend seemed to really like the girl. Good for him.

Anyways this guy who also works there kept trying to get into the convs. I could tell the girl was about to feel bad for not including her friend, and my friend, not knowing it was in comfort and needed help with isolation. I took one for the team, and started conversing with what has got to be the boooooringest douche in San Antonio.

I contemplated suicide 4 times durring a conversation that I suspect is in many ways similar to the Christian idea of the firey torment of hell...except this lasted longer. Somehow I managed to eventually steer the conversation away from such exciting topics as obscure animie and Dungeons & Dragons to Transformers.

Regardless of Micheal Bay's efforts, Transformers are universally cool. Nonetheless, this chode managed to nearly put me in a coma. I was trying to listen to my friend so I could help him out later, but I couldn't help but thinking there are a lot of guys like Loser McDouche, who are just starved for social attention.

He had no self esteem and seemed sad & uncomfortable when I talked about women. I guess it's one of those things you'd have to be there to see, but it was really sad and insightful.

How can the community be bad if it takes guys like that and turns them into happier people who women like more?

The girl was into my friend enough to #-close but he didn't go for it. I told him he should have....especially after I had to endure talking to that guy for such a longass time.

[Tracer]

Way to be the nice guy....LMAO!!!

I don't know if I would have done that for a friend that trashed talked a community like this. If I did and he didn't get her number....Grrrr! A slap to the back of the head would be all felt.

[waijai]

I've learned to let go of friends who have criticized or looked down upon my beliefs and practices. If they ruin my game in field because they all think it's a joke, then they're not really a true friend.

[status_]

I've learned to let go of friends who have criticized or looked down upon my beliefs and practices. If they ruin my game in field because they all think it's a joke, then they're not really a true friend.

not only that... but getting mocked and purposly cockblocked when ur trying to practice and meet new people gets really annoying.

we must be talkin about the same person. LOL!!

[Archaeopteryx]

not only that... but getting mocked and purposly cockblocked when ur trying to practice and meet new people gets really annoying.

OMG, I cant believe I forgot to post this.

My friend (great friend, shitty wing), I'll call him Capn' because he's a Capt. in the Air Force, constantly AMOGed me. It was so obvious that he even said he asked what it was called (he knew of the AMOG concept, just not the name). It was *really* bad.

One example: In a nice restaurant, when I was making my absurdly complex order, he interupted me and told the waitress:

I just want to warn you before you go and do all that work, that he's notorious for leaving a small tip.

I just laughed (acting completely unaffected) and told the waitress "Yeah, he's always like this. He's constantly trying hard to embarass me", and proceeded with my order.

Another example when I didn't like my side item and asked to get broccoli instead, he blurted out "I told you to get broccoli. You should have listened to me".

AX (to Capn): Yeah.
AX (to waitress): Sometimes when I eat broccoli, I like to pretend I'm a giant and they're trees. (she laughs)
AX (to Capn): Give me a piece of your broccoli so Ill know if I like it. (he does, but calls me an Ogre while I'm eating it).

By effectively dealing with his AMOGs I think I maintained or even built value. In any case, whenever he tried to AMOG me he lost value.

We always tool on each other pretty hard, but he was in turbo mode any time I was trying to talk to a girl. It was fun and good practice for Amogs in the field.

Anywho, after all his AMOGing (including an incident at Red Robin, where he told some hostess in a Bird Costume that I have avian flu), I still winged him in the one set he had, and explained afterwards that that guy was going to wreck his interaction had I not stepped in. He seemed to be greatful. In general I think it is better to befriend Amogs than to destroy them...or destroy them, then befriend them.

AMOGing can backfire on a guy, making him look try hard. Perhaps the best AMOG is getting the other guy to AMOG you, then ignore him.

[Smile]

Good points guys. Shine and I have recently decided that NO friends are to be going out with us when we sarge. First off, we have to leave them alone usually if we merge sets and we feel bad for leaving are friends. Second, they don't know what they are doing. Third, some get mad because we don't focus are entire attention on them. Fourth, it seems to be a pain in the ass constantly. Don't get me wrong, we will hang out with them but when it comes to a full force sarge night, then NO friends. An example of why we stopped including friends is because one of our friends threw a temper tantrum when Shine and I were talking to a girlfriend (just friend), had her kiss me for a bit and kept up good rapport for only 7 minutes. I guess our friend was mad because we were out there having a good time regardless of him and he felt left out even though we included him.

Plus, earlier that night, I number closed a HB9 while our friend and I were standing in the beer line at Addison Oktoberfest. I kept talking to the girls and he left and made it a point to tell everyone at our table that I was trying to pick up the ugliest girl there when in fact I did the opposite. He was just mad. So, at the end of the night he took off on us, we finally found him so he could only drop us off at home pissed off and left us to drive to another bar.

We ended up going to Blackfinn and sarged up a hell of a night. By the end of the night Shine's ex-gf was all over me trying to make him jealous, while I picked that up and kept her entertained without connecting on any level so as not to jump through her hoop and not harm my wing. By the end of the night Shine sealed the deal with the ex with no buyer's remorse.

We learned quit a bit on ex-gf and friend social dynamics while sarging that night.