I was at the bar and idly watching a bunch of party girls. They seemed to be having fun and I guessed that after a while they'd drift off to one of the local nightclubs. The girls weren't joined at the hip as a group, if you get my meaning, various young ladies drifting off and chatting with friends before returning to the main group.
Right now I was watching one of the ones who'd strayed away. She'd wandered over to the bar near me, just looking out at the crowd in much the same way as I was doing. I moved closer to her.
"May I buy you a drink?" I asked in a friendly voice, Mr Suave is action.
She didn't even look at me, just lifting her left hand to flash her rings.
"I'm married," she said.
"Yes, I know," I replied. "I'd have been surprised if someone as lovely as you wasn't and I'd already spotted the rings. Now, about that drink?"
Now she turned to look at me, giving me a slightly startled look. I just stood there, smiling easily.
"Why are you coming on to me when you know I'm married? It's not as though you're going to be able to entice me home with you. Waste of your time isn't it?"
I shrugged. "My time to waste," I pointed out, "and if I want to have a friendly drink with a pretty young girl I don't see why I shouldn't have a drink with her."
"In that case, yes, I'll have a drink. Thank you."
I determined what she'd prefer and ordered our drinks. We took our time drinking them, idly chatting away, both of us back to the sport of people watching.
"You're part of that group, aren't you?" I asked after a while, nodding to where her friends were congregated. "Some sort of party going on?"
"Not really. We just happened to decide to meet here. When Rhino opens later we'll head on down there."
She looked at her friends thoughtfully and then gave me a mischievous look.
"You know, if you want I can introduce you to a couple of my friends. You might be able to entice one of them home for the night."
"That won't work for a number of reasons," I said. "For a start you don't know my name to introduce me. Moving right along I don't want to take one of them home for the night or even to go home with them for the night, even though it would undoubtedly be a lot of fun."
"Why not?" She surprised.
"Complications afterwards," I explained. "They'd feel that I should call them the next day to reassure them that they were fantastic and I'm forever more in love with them. Or they might decide that I was fantastic and I'd be beating them off with a stick for months. It's a hard life when you're as attractive as I am."
"Poor man," she murmured. "You should charge a premium to let them bask in your presence."
"Tried that," I admitted, "but there were no takers for some reason. Perhaps I put too high a price on the tickets." I gave a sigh to show how hard done by I was.
She laughed, totally lacking in sympathy.
"So, are you also going on to the nightclub afterwards?"
"Regrettably not," I admitted. "I have to rise at an ungodly early hour tomorrow so I'll be getting a reasonably early night. I do need to have some sleep before I go to work."
"So you're just having a few late drinks and then shooting through?"
"Not exactly. What I'm hoping to do is have a few late drinks and then entice you down that corridor over thereto a deserted room I know of so that I can lower your panties and make love to you."
She almost choked on her drink, hastily wiping her mouth and giving me a glare.
"Excuse me?"
"I said," I began, when she interrupted me.
"I heard what you said. Are you insane? Why would I do something like that?"
"Why not?" I asked. "It would be fun. No-one would ever know but us and even then you don't know who I am. It could be a profitable experience for you, helping you learn about yourself."