Crazy-eyes And Peanuts – Eccentric Writer Schools Me In The Ways Of The Game
It was a 25-35 singles night a few weeks ago. I’m with my housemate Manfred talking to some girls. The girls disappear, but out of the corner of my ear I hear some guy talking about The Game to one of the staff.
He was about 40, Mediterranean, and had wonky eyes. “You know The Game?”
The doorman looked baffled.
I walked over and said “Player player yo.”
Crazy-eyes said “What?”
“You’re talking about The Game, right?”
“Yeah – it’s a load of crap. Two guys travelling all over Europe spending thousands of dollars to meet women.”
“Strauss is a writer – I’m sure he had the royalties to cover it.”
“It’s a stupid book – superficial. Spending so much money chasing girls.”
Manfred said “Doesn’t sound like a bad way to spend money to me,” and laughed.
Crazy-eyes said “Look out for a book: Use by date 40 years old. I’m 44 years old and I’ve got a girlfriend. Guess how old she is.”
“26.”
“Nah. She’s 20, blonde, and gorgeous. I’m not gonna lie – I went for the trophy. I’ve approached 2000 girls in the last year – I’m not kidding.”
I giggled to myself. I said “That’s cool man.”
He wandered off and we wandered off. I ran into him by the sinks in the mens’ later. He was on the phone to a girl saying “No, no baby, I do love you. Baby you’ve got to understand – actually I’m going to put you in my book. Listen, I want you to go through the book and fix all the spelling mistakes.”
He finished his phone call. I asked him how he was going. Ten seconds later, he launched into a spiel about his book.
“My book is going to make The Game look like … peanuts. I’ll give you a tip for free. Go up to the hottest girl and give her a compliment at the start of the night. Don’t say anything else. Just walk off. Then when you go to talk to her later, she’ll be really open.”
“Hey man, I’m writing a book too.
“It’s about when I was a door to door salesman.”
“Exactly – when you’re a salesman, what’s the most important thing? Confidence. And there’s a fine line between confidence and arrogance.”
There sure is.
And with that, he walked off into the night.
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Comments (3)
Man… i’m gonna make The Game look like Peanuts… I’m gonna make Neil Strauss look like Charlie Brown
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hmm.. .he pretty much does
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that guy is hilarious, 2000 women.. that’s like 6 or so girls a day?. alright then.
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Kurt Robinson Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
yeah… somehow i think i could take the pepsi challenge with him any night of the week.
he was alright though. bit of a wanka, but good value
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