Comments on: Napa and Sonoma Aren’t the Only Places to Meet Singles Wine Tasting

By: Hot Alpha Female

Hot Alpha Female — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:09:41 +0000

You know i think that you did pretty good and you gave her heaps of chance to open up to you and clearly she didn’t.

Her loss not yours.

In regards to the outcome. Well there could have been a number of factors at play. Her personality. Her Mood. Her relaitonship status.

Some people you just click with and others just don’t get it.

She was one of those that just didn’t get it =)

Hot Alpha Female

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By: Mothering Two

Mothering Two — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:19:38 +0000

Oh my gosh, see, I’m so NOT flirtatious that I prolly would not even have known you were flirting with me. You are such a gentleman when you flirt! I lived in Chicago for 3 years and for some strange reason got hit on all the time there (but not so much in Florida), but the dudes were all like, “haaay. you got ah’ boyfriend?” I’d be like, “yeah, I do.” They, being the persistent city-folk they were would say, just to make sure, “you live with him?”

Ahhh! You are a nice guy, seriously, it would be a pleasure to be hit on the way you spoke of. You know, she probably gets hit on all the time so it goes in one ear and out the other.

By: Deborah Smith

Deborah Smith — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:49:27 +0000

I just have the sudden urge to rent “Sideways” Yup, I agree with Kat. You’d have to expect that those girls get hit on all day long by buzzed guys. They have probably built up pretty thick skins to all advances.

By: Kat Wilder

Kat Wilder — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:52:21 +0000

DH, she probably gets hit on all the time, and I think many women get tired of that after awhile, figuring the guy’s just passing through.

That job requires that the pourer be personable but guarded against much more. And she’d probably get in trouble if she was spending too much time focusing on you and not selling the wine to all.

You’d have had more luck — maybe — with a fellow taster.

By: whatmenthink

whatmenthink — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:29:39 +0000

Sonoma County is my hometown. The back roads from the Alexander Valley to the Napa Valley are great for driving, cycling, or taking a nice winery tour. Beautiful area. Living in LA is a hell hole compared to growing up in Windsor, CA.

By: Lance

Lance — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:21:36 +0000

That’s funny, I was JUST thinking about doing the wine tasting thing in that part of the country.

Gaming hired guns is tough. Firstly, they’re on the clock and have to maintain a level of professionalism. Secondly, attractive hired guns are getting hit on all the time, like every single day, so they’re naturally on the defensive. You have to work fast, generate attraction, and figure out a way to hook while she’s working. Thirdly, you can’t create a dynamic that is socially weird at her workplace, in other words making her look weird in front of customers and co-workers.

What I try to do is find some kind of commonality and then offer value. If you take cycling as an example commonality, you can try saying that you know a lot of cycling groups or you know where all the good rides are (giving value). At the end of that interaction, provided you created attraction, you should be able to number/email/myspace close. I would have gone for a myspace close. Once you have the myspace, you can ascertain if she’s got a bf plus a ton of other info.

By: dadshouse

dadshouse — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:54:51 +0000

SMS – no worries, we didn’t drink too much. We pace ourselves, eat, down a lot of water, hang out and chat, never rush off in the car. And the pours are rather quite small.

Kevin – Napa can indeed be a bit snobbish. There are some more down to earth places, like Clos du Val, but Sonoma might be more your style.