I watched my son Mike approach the woman at the bar. He was twenty-one and had confidence issues. Being his father, I had always tried to help him. This time I was helping him by trying to teach him how to meet and bed women.
I had been teaching my son for months, and he had got progressively better at talking and flirting. Tonight he was doing great. The woman he was flirting with was very receptive to his advances. I watched as he slowly started escalating physical touch. First, her arms, then resting his hand on her leg.
She responded, playful tapping his shoulder, leaning over to expose her cleavage, and batting her eyes at him.
Mike moved the two of them to the dance floor, I watched as they stumbled around, with no natural elegance to their movement, but they didn't care, she was having fun being in the arms of a man, and Mike was having fun holding a woman close.
Mike eventually moved the woman to a booth. In the months I had worked with him, I had trained him to know now was not the time for a make-out. Now was a time to talk and build up comfort. I watched as Mike and the woman talked for a while, with the loud bar music around them.
After an hour, Mike took his lady friend by the hand and led her out the bar's front door. I soon followed to see how my son was progressing. He had taken her to the 24/7 coffee shop across the street. I slipped into the booth next to theirs to overhear the conversation.
"Mike, your so funny," the woman giggled.
That's a good sign
. Laughing at stupid things is a sign a woman is receptive to you.
I listened to them banter back and forth for a while, then heard the sound I was waiting for. The sound of lips coming together and making out. I was proud of my son's progress, but I also knew this was as far as he had ever made it with a woman. Going past this point is always where Mike faltered in the past.
"Let's go somewhere a little more quiet," Mike said. I waited for them to leave before following.