Reason #28: The Pack Mentality

So it's Saturday night, 11 PM, you and a buddy are at a local bar. Across the crowded room you lock eyes with a pretty little brunette. The ideal romantic cliche right at your fingertips, but she disappears. She is gone in a flash into a circle of people and cocktails. Sure, you can chock it up to the crowded bar, but the real culprit is much more sinister. 

You see, there's very specific thing about girls at bars that is especially infuriating. They never are alone. I know, I know it's a bar, they aren't going to go out alone. I understand that. It's not that they aren't alone really, it's that they aren't with just one or two friends. They travel in packs of 5, 6,7. It's a whole group.

How is a guy, or even 2 or 3, supposed to crack into that inner sanctum. It takes guts to approach somebody in a bar. It's an awkward situation, but to walk up to a group of five women, 10 eyes all looking and judging you from the moment of contact, is just impossible. You don't have to just score the interest of the one you are trying to talk to, you have to get the go ahead from the entire pack. 

Furthermore, let's toss up a hypothetical into the mix. I see a cute brunette looking at me. I walk over, initiate conversation, turns out- I'm totally off base, but the fact of the matter is her friend thought I was cute. I've already approached the wrong girl. It isn't as if I can turn to the next girl and be like, "Oh, hey, what's up?" I already started trying to talk up her friend, and I strike out where I could have potentially had success if I picked better. It isn't as if one can walk up to a group of girls and simply ask, "Okay, what's the rule here? If I try and talk to one of you, and strike out, can I pick again?" or, "So, before I make an ass out of myself here, do any of you find me cute or charming?" 

Okay, sure, there are some girls out there that bring along their entire group for this sole purpose, but not always. I have known of girls that have been the only single one in a group of married or involved women. Are they going to meet somebody in this circumstance? Possibly, but it is a lot less likely. Ladies, by traveling in packs, it really doesn't make it easy on the guys (but that I suppose would just be too simple and take all the fun out of it).