Free Beers for Everyone

So last night we went out(a Thursday night, because we will never grow up.) We showed up to this new bar, and there was a cornhole tournament starting in 30 minutes. Awesome surprise (we are snipers.) So there we are having a few beers after work and watching the Blue Jackets vs. Penguins hockey game, and all of the sudden we are entered into this tourney.

Now, everyone in this bar has every reason to hate us. We are far superior in skill, we care too much about the game, take it too seriously, and are stunningly attractive (at least our mom's think so.) Basically to everyone at the bar, we are massive douchebags stealing their prize money and chances of hooking up with hot girls. However, because we were able to laugh, and genuinely make an effort to interact with new people we turned everyones' ideas of us. We were able to make friends, meet hot girls, tell stories, get free beer all night, and people were basically paying to play against us. ((I felt like Tom Sawyer just watching as everyone else white-washed the fence.) We were able to flip the jealousy into friendship. Great social skill and "secret of college" that we just unlocked.

First of all, the first thing we did when we came into the bar was smile, start telling hilarious stories back and forth for a couple minutes, and learning the bar-tenders name. We genuinely tried to have fun, and share it with others (as terrible and fake as that sounds, if you focus on having nothing but fun, it actually works.) So we made Katie laugh for little, and then went over to the tournament area. We just jumped onto some open boards and started dicking around and practicing trick shots. We introduced ourselves to almost everyone by board hopping around, and laughing and joking with every person we practiced against.

Competition and games(cornhole, beer pong, drinking games) are great way to meet people, also, walking over to people you have met, and then introducing yourself to their friends works really well too. Basically, your job is to make friendly contact with everyone in your social environment, and then you can't mess up. This simple act of introducing ourselves made it so almost everyone felt comfortable commenting on our game, or anything that happened. So we started playing fantasy cornhole (picking a person that was playing and rooting for them, making the perosn you are playing in fantasy drink.) So basically we just ran around and played little mini-games with everyone.

Literally within one hour, we had girls coming over and giving us free beers. I got 5 in a row between a group of 3 girls personally. My buddy got a bunch as well. We not only had beers now, but we had cheerleaders for every game that we played. People we would match up against said, "Geez, did you bring everyone of your friends just to watch you play cornhole?" We told them the truth, "I've never even been to this bar before, we met all these people like an hour ago." You should have seen their face, they were amazed. Not to mention when girls came over and gave us beers.

So essentially we turned this whole bar into our best friends, got free beers all night, had the best looking girls in the bar on our arms, and clean sweeped the tourney. I'm not kidding, people were calling their friends on their cell phones and telling them to come to the bar to meet us, because we were hilarious, and "the best throwers in the world," as one girl said.

I don't say this to brag at all, I say this because this is one of the huge skill you can use in college. All we did was introduce ourselves and played games with people.

Think of what the alternative was. We show up, we stick to ourselves, kick everyone's ass in cornhole, piss off all the people playing, sit in a corner, don't meet any girls, pay for all of our beers, and leave.

The only thing that kept this from happening was our mindset of going out with the goal of having an absolute blast, and making new friends. So next time you go out, give it a try. Introduce yourself to new people, and make some new friends, and have yourself a good time.

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