My Night Out With Cuisine, Part 2

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Well, last night was Knack's birthday party--I had an awesome time!! But more on that later...first I need to finish writing about my first night out with Cuisine...

So Cuisine was talking to his target, and I continued talking to the non-target. All the while, the non-target was "girl coding" to her friend. This term, coined by Mystery, refers to nonverbal cues girls give each other about the situation they're in: Things like, "Let's get out of here," "Rescue me from this guy," etc.

I heard Mystery use the term once on the show, but I don't remember him going into detail in his book or other materials, so I'm not sure how PUAs learn to read it.

However, as a girl myself, I am already fluent. So it was fascinating to me to observe it in action as I was talking to the non-target. In this case, she was coding to her friend (by continuing to turn her body toward her, look in her directin, and place her arm on her friend's arm): "I'm still here, I'm not leaving you, I can rescue you from this guy if you need me." Fortunately for Cuisine, the target was not coding back that she needed help.

Anyway, eventually Shelley and Penny showed up and said that they wanted to check out another part of the bar. I hated to leave Cuisine by himself, but I asked them what they had been doing this whole time and they said, "Standing over there in a corner by ourselves." Ack! Now I felt obligated to go help them meet some people. We decided to leave Penny with Cuisine, and Shelley and I headed downstairs.

I asked her who she wanted to meet and she pointed out a man in a blue shirt. He seemed to be by himself, but he was standing next to a group of about eight young guys, so I decided to open the big group, with the idea that I would merge him into the conversation.

So I went up and got the guys' attention with my opener--"My husband and I are having an argument I need help settling it." One of them turned and said "He's right!" I thought that was a pretty funny comeback and said that I hoped that the women he was asking told him the same thing!

Anyway, so I asked my question and passed around the notepad where I was tabulating the results. One of the guys was quite rude and said to his buddy, "How do you eat a v%^$#?" I said, "Hey--ladies present," to which he replied, "Yeah, so?" What a jerk!!!

Anyway, one of the guys was intrigued by the question and broke off from the group to tell me his Oreo "ritual"--and I mean RITUAL! He told me all about how he gets a pint of milk--"1%, not skim, not 2%"--and how a stack of Oreos from one of the big Costco bags contains exactly 14 Oreos, and one glass of milk lasts for precisely 7 Oreos, and how you take the Oreo in between your two fingers and dip it in the milk and hold it there for 4 seconds, so that when you eat it, it is half soft and half crunchy. It was a hoot! He told me he loves Oreos so much he is actually filming a documentary about the history of the Oreo! Ha ha ha!

During the discussion, Shelley had come in and she joined in somewhat, but mostly he was just telling me the whole story. At the end, we tried to leave and he said, "Wait, let me give you my email address!" And he proceeded to tell me that he wanted me to be in the movie and to email him. I couldn't believe it! What a riot.

Shelley and I headed back to our friends--Cuisine was there and we debriefed the set upstairs--that's when he told me about the name and height mistakes. He also told me that he had gotten the number in spite of my screw ups. Girl Candy and Smooth Virus had shown up by this time. Girl Candy lives in Cuisine's building and is not a true PUA, but "is very, very good," Cuisine says. Smooth Virus was one of the founders of the DC Lair and can be seen on the Knack Revelation videos.

My next assignment was to open a set for Penny...but I gotta run, so I'll have to write about that later.