Being the shy type sucks most times because when it comes to the ladies, you always miss your opportunities. I have always been teased by my friends because of my inability to talk to a lady. Whenever I approached any lady, I suddenly go blank, my brain losses the ability to coordinate, what might be the reason? I asked myself every time I embarrassed myself after talking to a lady.
I can remember feeling confident and decided it’s time I go walk up to my crush in my neighborhood and ask her to be my friend. I called one of my best friends for moral support, the moment he picked the call and heard what I said, he laughed so hard, but gave me quite an amount of moral support to help me through the process. He knew how nervous I got around ladies and how I fidget whenever I was around them, then he told me that the only way I could overcome it is by taking a little sip of alcohol, get tipsy and just May be my confidence will be built.
That sounded like a good idea but I don’t take alcohol, the only time I took alcohol was when one time I went to the party with my friends. I took a small glass of vodka because I didn’t want to look like the weird friend taking Soda while the rest were taking vodka. But I noticed that when I took the first glass of vodka, I had this confident to tell a lady “Hi you are so pretty “. She smiled and said “Thank you”. So I felt that could be my source of confidence.
I went to a famous liquor store in my neighborhood to go buy a little bottle of vodka. This liquor store is a very popular liquor store in my neighborhood and always opened from Monday to Sunday. I rushed to the store and guess what? For the first time in a long time, the liquor store was closed. I was worried, why will this liquor store be closed now I needed it the most. This was on a Saturday morning, 11 AM to be precise, this liquor store is always open, 9:00 AM is the usual time it gets opened. But the time I needed the store the most, it disappointed me.
I called the phone number written on the store’s wall and the owner picked. I spoke to him and he said that Saturday was his daughter’s wedding and everyone needed to attend. I was a little bit considerate like “awwwn that’s nice happy married life to your daughter” but then I still needed the alcohol. So I hung up and decided to look for another alternative to get alcohol.
I called my best friend once again and asked him for another liquor store. He gave me another location but it was a little bit far from my house. At least getting there and back will take 30 minutes of my time. The liquor store was close to my best friend’s house, so I went there and decided to go to my best friend’s house to get tipsy. I took the bottle of vodka and opened it, I couldn’t drink alone so my friend joined me.
We took a lot of sips and the tipsy feeling kicked in. Now am confident enough to talk to this lady, getting a taxi back home was a little bit difficult because I couldn’t coordinate my step while moving. I tried my best to coordinate myself, then it dawned on me that I drank a little bit too much because I was carried away with having a conversation and trying to get tipsy.
I finally found a taxi, boarded the taxi and went back to my neighborhood to go talk to my crush and ask her to be my friend. I got to her house, knocked on the gate and the security guard came out and I asked if I could see “let’s call her Tricia”. He told me that Tricia just left the house 30 Minutes ago for an impromptu Saturday office work. She got called by her boss to come to the office.
😂 there I was confused and asking myself “Is it worth it”? You went through the stress and trouble of getting your self drunk for what? All it could have taken was acting Now, that is, acting the moment she was around instead of calling my friend and getting myself drunk.