"I read your website," she
"I read your website," she said.
"Did you like it?" I asked innocently.
"I just wanted to tell you that I'm not here tonight to try to pick you up."
"Okay."
"I'm just here to be here," she said. "I don't even know why I'm here."
"Okay."
"Because you have to work, and then you have to go home and sleep or whatever."
I smiled. Actually, I had different reasons for wanting to give notice on this site that women shouldn't come to the Marquee to pick me up.
Partly it was a test, to weed out anyone who wasn't serious enough.
Also: I've hung out with quite a few women. I don't want any of them to avoid the club because they think that as soon as I see them, I'll be thinking about going home with them. I wanted to take a bit of social pressure off everyone.
So I assured this young lady that I assumed nothing by her presence.
I am, in general, pretty unassuming.
Anyway, after I finished work we went back to my place and beat the shit out of each other.