Bars….a good place to pick up women? I get asked a lot by my guy friends if they should continue to head to the bars to look for women. I shout, “Definitely”. I know, that some may think, it is not the ideal place to pick up on a girl that you want to bring home to mom but it can be. Bars are there, mostly, as a pick up joint. Yeah, once and awhile a couple will head there to just hang out and secretly relive their single days but for the most part bars are just crawling with single people. You have about a 95% chance (statistics that I made up on the fly) that if a girl is there, she is single. Again, there are exceptions such as a taken girl who is there to hang out with her girls (and again relive her single days) but really, you have a pretty good shot that she is looking for a man.

Who among us has not gone to a bar? So there are normal people that go to bars. It sounds shady to have met your “true love” at Joe’s Pub but why? If we have all been to bars (some of us more than others), then why shouldn’t we look for love here. Yes, there are some people that are just looking to get drunk and hook up (score, if there is a girl there you like and this is her mission) but I’d actually say that those people are the exception, not the rule. We want to find a mate (most of us) and going to a place that is stocked like a fish farm with exactly what we are looking for is a perfect place to look for a soul mate. I know, I am going to have many a critic over my admiration for bars as the place to find “the one”. But again, why? Because of the alcohol? You’ll say, the spirits are there just to loosen everyone up to hop in the sack and not to just grease a well made match. Well, let’s say you meet a nice girl at a wedding. Don’t most weddings serve liquor? Yep. So there goes that theory. Another critic might say, women wear almost nothing at a bar and yet you are supposed to marry this girl and bring her to your company picnics? Well, how about the beach? If you met a girl on the beach then she would be wearing much less. See, bars get a bad rap, but really they are one of the most ideal places to meet your partner.

I also think a lot more people have met their significant others at a bar but they are just not copping to the fact. They will make up a well played out story to tell their friends and relatives, just so that they do not have to admit they met at a bar. Some people act as if meeting your girlfriend at a bar was like meeting her at a strip club or something. Bars are not such a bad place. But for some reason, they just sound bad. It may not sound like a typical fairytale to admit to meeting your future wife at a bar but it should be. I am standing up for bars everywhere and telling you to belly up to the local pub and go look for love. And when you find your perfect mate, shout it from the rooftop. Let the world know. We can start a revolution.

Ok, I’ll get off my soapbox, but I hope, you get it. You can meet nice, normal women almost anywhere. But nice, normal, single women are almost guaranteed at a place made for singles-a bar. This is a prime spot for you to meet a woman looking for the same thing you are-love. So make sure you are acting like it if you are at the bar looking for your true love. Don’t act like a guy trying to get laid. Act like a gentleman, be sincere and keep your eyes and heart open. You don’t want to miss your Bella (shout out to Twilight fans) while you are just looking for a quick roll in the hay because you think could never find a nice girl at a bar. You never know who you’ll meet, and where. It might just surprise you.