I walked through the doorway to the hotel bar and began scanning the crowd. I was curious to see how the local talent was shaping up tonight. My left hand began to itch, specifically my left ring finger, so I idly scratched the pale band at the base as I let my gaze slide across the room.
I took a couple of steps into the darkened bar, glanced at the rectangular shaped bar in the middle of the main room, the stopped and stared. What immediately sprang to mind was the lyrics from the Jimmy Buffett song, "There she sat at the corner of the bar/As I broke another string on my old guitar/Someone call a cab/Lady won't you pay my tab?"
She was a short redhead, five-foot-nothing, wearing a little more makeup than I tended to prefer, but she had the kind of rack I've always liked and a body that carried it well. There was one other thing she had that really caught my attention. She had what I've always referred to as The Look.
The Look isn't something that you can necessarily describe in specific words. The Look certainly involves looking good, but there's that indefinable something she just has to have. For starters, women with The Look tend to be a little bit older. Young hotties can look good, but they haven't had enough time to develop the proper attitude that always accompanies The Look.
Women with The Look
Know Who They Are, and Like It.
Women with The Look are
Confident and Know Exactly What They Want, and Won't Settle for Less.
Women with The Look
Aren't Necessarily Shopping Around, but When They Find It, They Make Sure They Get It.
Most guys don't truly understand what The Look is all about. From my experience, women with The Look tend to intimidate men who instinctively head the other direction. The biggest part of The Look is the fact that you'd better bring your A-Game. Even the hint that you might even have the possibility of a B-Game is enough to have women with The Look leaving tire tracks on your torso as they head down the road, not even looking in the rearview mirror at your mangled body.
What they really don't get is the fact that women with The Look are worth all the effort required. You can have all the young hotties -- they're a dime a dozen. You manage to get yourself a woman with The Look and you have something that will leave you gasping and breathless. They're so above the rest of the females in the fray that looking for anything less means you're cheating yourself of an experience you'll never forget.
That's a lot of words trying to quantify something that's basically undefinable. But like the Supreme Court justice said in a ruling, you know it when you see it.
She had it. Oh, yeah, she had The Look, in spades. I felt my pulse pick up, and a stirring in my gut, and a little bit lower as well. The Look always gets me going. And this time, it got me going toward the corner of the bar, even if I didn't have an old guitar as an icebreaker.
I had taken two steps, and then started cursing myself for my hesitation as I'd walked into the room. A tall guy with a goatee sidled up next to her as she was finishing off her beer. It was obvious he was getting ready to buy her next drink.
But then she did something curious. She turned toward him, and you could tell she was saying him no thanks. He persisted, said something that he obviously thought was clever, and then waited confidently for a response from her.
She looked at him, shook her head at him again, and when he looked confused at her response, she said a short phrase of some kind. With that, his eyebrows went up and he scuttled off as quickly as he could. You could almost smell the scorched flesh from whatever she'd told him. Whoa.
I smiled and walked toward her. I figured, what the hell, what did I have to lose? As I approached her, I said, "You look like you're ready for another one. My treat."
She looked up, and instead of the blank stare she gave the other guy, the redhead smiled at me. "It all depends," she said. "Are you a lying sack of shit?"
How the hell do you answer that? "I do my very best not to be." I paused then added, "Miller Lite, right?"
The redhead nodded. I smiled at her, and she smiled back. "Hi, I'm Steve."
"I'm Anna." I sat down on the seat to her right, and gave the bartender the order for two beers. "You sure you're not one of those guys who's a lying sack of shit?"
"Pretty sure. Been having problems with that type lately, huh?"
The beers showed up, and I handed her one of the bottles. As she took it from me, she glanced at my left ring finger and saw the pale band. Her eyes widened just a bit. That's when I looked at her left hand. There it was -- that same pale band. Interesting.
She smiled. "Matter of fact I have. You see that guy that just came up to me?" I nodded. "He used a really tired, standard pickup line. I asked him how limber he was. That stopped him cold. Then I told him to go fuck himself."
"At least you got rid of him quickly," I said. "Any suggestions for me?"