Cellars

I paid $60 for yet another five weeks of salsa lessons at the same studio I'm still not sure about, because last week my keen James Bond skills--well--ok I was staring at Red Shirt girl while she signed up for another week of classes. Red Shirt girl is one of those girls that just started salsa (about two weeks ago, literally) but is an exceptional dancer. I assumed that, since she was taking the beginner class before my "intermediate" class, that after having become an awesome dancer in two weeks she would progress to the intermediate class. I was wrong. However, our teacher demoed the little "pattern" he's going to teach us, and I think I saw a move somewhere in there that I want to learn. So it wasn't a total waste.

Anyway, none of that is important. What is important, is I sort of told my whole class about my failed attempt to go dancing at Sea Sound lounge, and my Dance Fail at triple door. They laughed, but this one one hot girl also expressed a genuine "awwwwww." I think I accidentally went too pathetic with the joking again. I gotta stop doing that. First I tell the hot girl in the apartment office all about stalling out my new, expensive sporty-looking car, and now I'm telling the hottest girl in my class all about the time I had to duck out of Triple Door because I didn't want anyone to remember my face. I should really stop joking about this stuff but I'm such an easy target.

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There is a bar called Cellars on like 1st and Blanchard. They have Salsa/latin dancing on Tuesday nights. Live band. I passed it while I was looking for Sea Sound lounge, which I'm told is on Sundays. Cellars is a cool little bar. Tiny dance floor. The gender ratio was about...20 to 4? That reduces to 5:1. no.....it was way worse than that. I can't give it a number. Here's the skinny:

$9 Captain and cokes.
Terrible place to go alone: won't have anyone to dance with.
Great place to take a girl you want to see naked someday if she knows a little latin (or you feel like doing the awkard pretend-to-dance-with-a-total-beginner thing) . You can get a bite to eat and then dance. Not so good for girls that you are casually hanging out with--unless maybe you go as a group? I don't know. The place is small, intimate. I could be wrong though. I didn't do any dancing.
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That reminds me, I can't decide if sitting at the bar by yourself sort of labels you as a loser (making it less productive than sitting at home) or if there is some way that you can still be cool and meet people. Maybe it was the live band, but I wasn't that uncomfortable just sitting there all by myself with no one to talk to (there were guys on either side of me that were equally uninterested in being friends). Well, this girl two bar stools away did glance at me but I wasn't into her and the only thing I hate more than starting conversations with girls in bars is hearing other guys tell me how to start conversations with girls in bars. Kind of weird though. I never would have gone to a bar by myself a few years ago. Maybe a shy person can become an extrovert. Well, maybe not. I wasn't actually alone; there were people from the studio--why I was there in the first place. But I didn't see them at first and by the time I got comfortable at the bar I didn't want to talk to them anyway.