Reason #27: Where are they hiding?

So, in my last reason, I discussed how much I loathed the bar scene, and how it was a necessary evil in the process of meeting girls. Heres the thing: I have never met a worthwhile girl at a bar. I'm sure great, fantastic, perfect girls are at bars, but generally the types of girls that I end up wanting to be with, they aren't the girls that I'm going to be yelling small talk over bad music.

So the inevitable question I'm asking myself these days: Where am I supposed to meet somebody? In college, aside from bars, it was much, much easier. You see a cute girl in a class, you bump into each other in the book store, you belong to the same club, are you both attend a mutual party. The barrage of generic questions come up. What's your major? What do you want to do with that? Oh, did you take ___ with ___? And before you know you've made a new acquaintance of the opposite sex. Easy as pie.

Unfortunately, for those of us out of college (and didn't opt for grad school, or God forbid a PHD), that method of meeting potential mates comes to a close. And, as I have previously said, I am in my mid twenties, so where the %$#% am I supposed to meet a potential girlfriend?

I could pray for the occasional cute girl to run a test on me at the hospital (true story), but getting the date in that particular situation, is a delicate operation. I could stalk local coffeehouses, maybe do some writing and hope I bump into the girl I'm going to marry, or at least spend a few frustratingly amazing months with. I could do gimmicky things like speed dating, internet dating. I could meet girls at my job, but due to the experience of both myself and my friends, thats an area you don't want to broach (keep on the look out for a future Types of Girls to Avoid) There's always set ups. Friends of friends who I would supposedly adore, but you're friends never know that right type of girl for you. Heck, most of the time you don't even know the right gal for yourself.

It's a bitch to meet somebody after college, and I don't know why it has to be this hard. There are millions of eligible girls out there looking for exactly the kind of guy I am. Heck, I frequent one of the busiest, most populated cities in the world it shouldn't be this hard. Surely if romantic comedies have taught us nothing is that there is a happenstance encounter just waiting for me to enter on cue. I guess we are all just waiting on our Reese Witherspoon or Kate Hudson to enter our lives in a quirky, cute way.