RE: My Travel Journal
Day 14 Continued:
It's 6:30am and I just got home from clubbing. Man, my sleep pattern are gonna be fucked up.
So after what happened earlier with the chick, I had some trouble focusing on the task at hand, but nonetheless said fuck it, maybe something good might come out of the night if I go out solo. I tried to link up with some people via couchsurfing for clubbing but got a lot of flakes. One jackass in particular from Italy has been requesting to chill with me and would always flake and cancel. He would even try to poach some of the other people who were hanging out with me like he did tonight. Nobody has been able to meet with this jackass because of his bullshit behaviour. Luckily, I managed to link up with another guy last minute for clubbing but I'll get to that in a minute.
Before I ventured off into clubbing alone, I decided that I needed to predrink and to socialize with some people before hitting the clubs, besides it was still early. I made my way over Ala Folkklub which has quickly turned into my favorite gaming location, due to cheap drinks, reasonably priced food, and the large volume of people there. When I showed up around 11pm, the place was fucking packed. I mean ridiculously packed, I could hardly even move in there. All of the seats by the bar were taken and so were all the tables. Not a great start to the evening. I saw two blonde chicks being squished by the mob of people and I slid up to one of them and opened her.
Me: It's crazy tonight, isn't it?
Her: Turns and looks at me, gives me some fake ass smirk and then turns her head back.
I ditch her and then push my way into a tiny spot by the bar so that I can order a beer. I grab my beer and casually scan the area, there's no room and also too many fucking guys, but wait...
I see a little empty spot by one of the walls. I slowly make my way over and position myself. The location wasn't ideal and not many people were walking through there but it beats standing around like a clown. I scan the place again, looking for targets and trying to strategize how I'm going to approach them. The weird feeling of being there alone slowly starts to creep into my psyche. I ask myself what the fuck am I doing here alone? I start to get doubts and my mind is telling me to just quit and go home before people think your a weirdo. Then I see, one spot open up right in front of me. There's no chicks there but two dudes chatting on one side and another two on the other side. I decide it's better then leaning up against the wall and quickly take the spot. One of the dudes, looks at me and I make eye contact but then he turns and ignores me. The other dude on my right is too busy chatting with his buddy to even notice me. I'm standing here, leaning up against the bar table thinking fuck, I can't even pregame or socialize with people before I hit the clubs. After a while, the two dudes on the left leave while the two on my right are still chatting away. I figure, fuck it, I need to start socializing with people, otherwise my club game is gonna be shot. I open the guy on my right. I point to his beer and ask him "What type of beer is that?". He gives me short and brief answers but I keep on re-engaging him, until after I asked him where's the best spots to hang on a Friday, he finally starts putting some more effort into his answers and even offers to show me on my phone the best places. The places he recommended were shitty bars like some Bar with the words Pharmacy on it, I walked by that place, its fucking tiny. The only exception was rock cafe, but I didn't like the vibe of that place, way too cliquey. We chat a little more, but he doesn't really ask me much questions and his friend doesn't even speak English.
Just then, two chicks come up to the counter on my left. They seem kind of off, especially short blonde. They smile at me and I smile back. I open them and ask them about their drinks. The taller brunette doesn't seem quite as friendly yet, whereas the blonde seems kind of weird, like she took some drugs or something. After a little more bantering the brunette finally seems more friendly and talkative. I found out, the blonde is Latvian while the brunette is from Estonia. They try to guess where I'm from but can't do it lol. They also question me as to why I'm in Latvia. I've been asked this question at least a dozen times now and its kind of getting old. The Estonian tells me I should visit Estonia. Her drink arrives and I ask her what she ordered. Her beer had a dark red color to it. She's like its called cranberry beer and gives me a sip while she takes a sip of my beer because I complained that it taste like crap. Her beer was actually quite good. They then bid me farewell and say maybe they will see me later again. I never see these two chicks again.
I return back to my banter with the dude on my right for a little bit, and not long after, a group of four chicks comes up to my left to order drinks. I fucking love the spot by the bar, chicks just come up to you and it's so easy to open them once they are there and it doesn't make you look creepy or anything. I wait for the chicks drink to arrive and then immediately open her.
me: Hey, what drink is that? Rum and Coke?
her: yes
me: my favourite drink
her: she smiles.
her: where are you from?
me: take a guess with a sly smirk on my cheeks
her: takes several guesses and can't get it.
her: where are you from?
me: Canada
her: oh I love canada
We talk some more.
her: why are you in Latvia? (Come on, stop asking me this frigging question.)
me: why does everyone always ask me that question? You are like the 50th person to ask me this.
her: she laughs, because blah blah blah
Her friend comes over and she tells her friend that she just met me and introduces her. Her friend was a lot hotter then her but I wasn't getting any buying signals. I open her and tell her what we just talked about and she just smiles and nods. I return back to talking to the original chick. Then her friends kind of usher her away to the table behind us.
She bids me farewell and says she might be back later. She stayed at the table in behind me for a bit but there was a dude seated beside her and chatting her up. Later, I notice she and the dude took off somewhere presumably to either smoke or fuck. Who knows. They later returned together and then their group disappeared and their table was taken over by a bunch of dudes, probably foreigners because I saw a black dude in a dress shirt.
The two dudes on my right are kind of deep into conversation and I decide not to pester them so just sit there and chill while finishing up my beer. Then two brits scoot up right next to me on my left. They kind of ignore me and order their drinks. One of them spills his shot glass all over the table and acts like a total jackass, as expected from these stag party idiots. They leave without cleaning up their mess. Next, some fat middle aged blonde walks up to the counter. I'm not remotely interested in her, but decide I need to maintain my social momentum so I open her as well.
me: be careful, there's a spill
her: looks at me confused as I point to the table. "Ah, thank you so much."
We start chatting and she tells me that she's from Norway and brought her mother her as a birthday present but that her mother is completely wasted lol. We chat for a bit and then she bids me farewell as well. At around this time, I notice two fat chicks standing behind me. They are trying to dance and get guy's attention (typical). One of the guys from the table behind me sees them and approaches one of the fat chicks and tries to dance behind her. This was a good looking well dressed guy too (way too thirsty). She turns around and sees him but ignores him lol.
I return my gaze back to the table and see the two dudes are grabbing their jackets and about to take off. They bid me farewell, shake my hand and then take off. Immediately two blonde chicks take their seats. Great, another target. They order tea in a teapot and I open the one on my right as well.
me: Hey, what is that?
her: smiles, "tea"
me: I look at her confused and surprised. "Tea? at this time?"
her: she laughs and then nodds.
She didn't give me much to work with so I decide not to re-engage her after 2-3 attempts at re-engaging.
Another two dudes now take up my left spot but aren't very open to chat based on their body language, ok fine. I'm kind of just sitting here now, trying to figure out what's my next move. Then I get a message on my phone saying someone wants to hang out and go clubbing. Great! I found a wingman. I message him and he's down. We agree that he'll come meet me here and then we'll go to Kalku Varti (the club where I had some success with that Russian chick last week). So I sit there, kind of bored without any targets to approach. I order another beer and wonder whether or not I should move around and try to approach some chicks or just stay there. If I move, I know some jackass is going to take my spot. A good 15-20 minutes past, and then suddenly some tall attractive brunette about a 7.5 pushes up between me and the dude on my left. She looks at me and then gives me this kind of strange smile and I'm not quite sure how to react to it lol. I kind of just smile back. Then she is interrupted by the dude on the left who starts talking to her. They chat for a few seconds and says something to him and they laugh. He leans in to me and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. I look a little confused and then he says something. I can't fucking understand what he's saying. I lean in and ask him to repeat.
dude: She says are you Glenn from the walking dead?
me: What?
she looks at me and smiles.
me: I turn and look at her. "did you say that I look like Glen from the walking dead?"
she smiles and nodds. Her face is like lit up lol.
me: well then, you should ask for my autograph
she laughs and then nodds her head frantically.
me: maybe even better if we take a photo.
she makes this really happy face which I can't describe with words lol and then tells the dude on the left if he can take a photo for us. She then leans in while I wrap one of my arms on her shoulder for the photo but then the dude tells his other friend to take the photo and he also jumps into the photo, wtf?
She thanks me for the photo while the dude on the left tries to get her attention but she kind of ignores him and is all focused on me. She has this huge grin on her face and looks very curious. We chat a bit about the walking dead, what she does for a living (she's an air hostess with air baltic), why I'm here in latvia (come on, did you expect them to leave this question out?), how long I'm going to be here, where I'm from, and that she's Latvian and some other random shit I can't remember. She looked like she wanted to ask me a million questions but was also kind of shy to do it, so we had a few awkward pauses lol. Just then, we get interrupted again, wtf! Some old dude comes right up to her and starts caressing her back and shoulders with one of his hand while talking to her. She's looks a little uncomfortable but remains polite. The dude then asks about me and she introduces him to me. He's apparently some priest or father at a church here. He seemed friendly and told me to come visit him at his church. He wrote down the address on his phone. I might actually swing by lol. He then leaves me and the girl to resume our conversation. This chick is all smiles and I can kind of feel her leg brushing up against mines by the bar table. Then the priest interrupts us again! and hands her two drinks, rum and coke I presume. I guess she's using him for drinks or something, I don't know. Her friend then stops by the counter and she introduces me to her. Her friends short, fat, and ugly and kind of ignores me after the introduction. She then bids me farewell and tells me she'll be back.
Man, I had a good look at this chick, she was totally my type, tall, big eyes, and a brunette. I totally forgot about that earlier chick at the mall when I was chatting to this chick. I knew I had to get her number. Just then my cellphone started to get messages from the couchsurfing guy. We exchanged extensively some messages while I glanced around the place looking for the chick I had just spoke to. I noticed at this point that the black dude from early had opened and was talking to one of the fatties.
The black dude seemed really contempt and happy hitting on the fat brunette chick lol. What is it with black dudes and hitting on fat chicks? I always see this in real life and in videoclips. There was so many slim women and yet he went directly for the two fatties lol.
His other friends kept the other fattie busy too. I was thirsty as fuck as this point, but didn't want to drink anymore alcohol so I tried to order some water but was being ignored by the bartenders.
After waiting around for a while, I said fuck it and left my seat to walk over to the more busier area of the bar with more bartenders. Naturally my seat was immediately taken over by some dudes. When I finally made it over their, another two chicks also arrived and wanted to order drinks. They also were being ignored. I tried to open one of them.
Me: customer service kind of sucks here doesn't it?
Her: she gives a half ass smile and then ignores me
I finally get one of the waiters attention and then order my water. I also notice a lonely older looking hot chick somewhat near me. I saw her earlier with a dude but he wasn't around. I contemplated walking over and talking to her but there was just something about her that told me she would tell me to fuck off right away. She had a bitchy aura to her so I decided nah. At this point, I received a message from the couchsurfing dude that he would be arriving her soon so I thought ok, I really need to go talk to that chick again and get her number before I have to take off with the other guy.
I walk around and try to find her. After a few minutes, I finally spot her sitting down by a table, she sees me but then is interrupted by some guy. I kind of keep my position within eyesight of her and then after a few minutes, I notice she getting out of her seat but making it look kind of casual and her not looking at me as she predictably walks over to me and chats to me again while I'm leaned up against the bar table. We resume our chat and she still looks kind of shy but has this huge smirk on her face. It was kind of cute and funny at the same time. Somehow I forgot how our conversation turned into me agreeing to get drunk and drink rum and coke with her. I make my way over to the bartender as she looks at me, I was kind of expecting her to pay for her drink but she didn't say anything so I assumed she was expecting me to pay for it. Alright fine, its only a few euros but I wasn't going to pay for another drink for her. Just then as I'm ordering her drinks, she gets approached by another dude (OMG!!!), she appears uncomfortable and they chat a little bit and then suddenly the dude starts talking to me. He seems kind of friendly and becomes even more so when he founds out I'm from Canada. I find out he's from Britain, but just then the chick gets taken away by another dude (wtf is going on here?). I'm not sure if I was being amoged or not and that was this dude's friend but the chick disappeared somewhere with the other guy. Right around this time, I receive a text from the couchsurfing dude saying he's here and waiting for me by the washroom.
I finally get handed my two drinks and then bid the british dude farewell and then go to look for the chick but notice she is dancing with some guy so I decide to abandon her for a bit while I grab the dude by the washroom. I go look for the guy by the washroom but he's nowhere to be found so I whip out my phone and message him. Still nothing as I wait for a few minutes. Then some tall ass guy approaches me and introduces himself. I tell him, just let me give this drink to this chick, grab her number and then we can take off.
As I make my way back to the dance area, I noticed she is isn't there anymore. I scan the room and then suddenly my pupils dilate as my heart sank.
I see the guy she is dancing with being aggressive with her and then they start kissing. I'm like wtf man! Needless to say, I was kind of pissed off. I went to go get her a drink and she instead makes out with this guy. I was like fuck this, I went back to where the guy was sitting, dropped off both drinks and then walked towards where my coat was being hung. Unfortunately, the path was being blocked by her and the guy who she just kissed. She sees me and moves to the side as I grab my coat and then walk back to the couchsurfing guy. I tell him what happened and he shakes his head. I'm like fuck this, gulp down both drinks and end up shit faced as we make our way out of there.
Man, the only thoughts in my head at that time was "was this girl really interested in me or was she just using me? Trying to scam me for a free drink?"
What a fucking shame! I really liked this chick because she is totally my type and I was just about to get her digits before this happened.
That fucking stung! How many more heartaches and pain must I endure before I finally start getting some success with women? I questioned whether or not I should have just given up right there on the spot, because things seem futile and pointless. I'm not getting anywhere with any girls. The couchsurfing dude tried to comfort me saying there will be more chicks and to just forget about her. I find out he's Russian and living here in Riga indefinitely (great, finally someone who I can go out regularly with). We make our way to
Kalku Varti. It's around 2am at this point. The place is playing good music but its a huge sausagefest and there isn't much people there. Most of the girls there are with dudes. I make my way to the dance floor while my new wing asks if I want a drink and I'm not nah I'm good and he just stays by the bar and orders a drink.
I walk around and immediately some ugly ass Asian girl girls me a top to bottom. Not quite as obvious as the Russian from the other night but I think it definitely was an IOI. I start dancing and moving to the beats of the music while scanning for any extended eye contact. There's nothing. My wing then makes his way to the dance floor to meet up with me with a drink in his hand. Immediately, I notice a short blonde chick eye fucking him as he walks by. I yell out to his eye that the chick behind him is checking him out and that he should make a move. He shrugs it off and says he doesn't find her attractive. We continue dancing for a bit, and then he asks if I want to get a drink and I'm no thanks. He goes and orders another drink. I continue dancing but no chicks giving me any eye contact while I try to get within their proximity. It also doesn't help that none of the chicks are really that attractive. There might have been maybe 1-2 7's there but that was it. After dancing some more, we agree to abandon the place.
Our next stop's at Friend's nightclub. My wing actually wanted to go to coyote fly or studio 69 but I told him you need to be spending a shit tonne at those places and that I probably wouldn't be able to get into coyote fly due to their strict face control. So we arrive at the club and its actually quite lively and busy today, a farcry from the other night. We make our way downstairs and enter the dance room. It was fucking packed, but not in a good way. It was mostly older people there, like I'm talking 30 and up. There might have been a few late 20's chicks but that's it. The music was all in Russian and most of the people there were Russian. I did see 1-2 black guys and 1-2 Asian dudes dressed really weird. I got zero eye contact from any of the girls but then again I wasn't really into these older chicks. There was 1 really tall smoking hot Russian chick though. She was even taller then me and had a huge rack and was wearing tight jeans and a white tank top. My wing again asked if I wanted a drink. I didn't want to keep on turning him down so said yes. I was kind of wasted at that point but nonetheless muscled through and danced there. I wasn't feeling much of a vibe with that older crowd but stayed there to keep him company. After finishing his drink, within 20 minutes he asked if I wanted another drink. I told him I'd pay for this round and ordered a water for myself lol. I continued to dance but received no invitations. I actually saw one russian dude kind of molest one women while she tried to remove his hands. Suddenly some Russian told pushed the other guy away and then got in his face. The Russian apologized to him and then they shook hands and forgot about it. This Russians sure don't kid around. My wing kept on buying drinks after drinks after drinks. I think I counted between 6-8 drinks he had in a span of 4-5 hours and he did zero approaches too. All he wanted to do was just drink and dance lol. I quickly arrived at the conclusion that he's an alcoholic but who am I to judge, as long as I get some sort of social support at a nightclub, that's good enough for me.
At around the 5am mark, I was really feeling tired and wanted to bail, but my wing asked if I was interested in going to a strip club. I quickly turned down his offer. We left the club at around 5:30am and said we'll meet up tomorrow again to go clubbing.
I really thought things were going to turn around when I met that really attractive brunette earlier in the night but I guess I was wrong. I'm still kind of confused on whether or not she actually was into me or just saw me as some idiot to use for free drinks. On the positive side, I now know that a few Latvians are maybe curious and interested in me. Prior to tonight, I thought all of them weren't open to foreigners especially ethic minorities since I never saw any couples here yet. Well that's all for tonight, tomorrow's going to be another grind. Fingers crossed my luck changes soon.
(This post was last modified: 10-22-2016 12:48 AM by destiny.)
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