Bartender Wisdom

Awhile back, my girlfriend AJ passed around He's Just Not That Into You. AJ had somehow scored a scarce copy of the book shortly after the authors appeared on Oprah, causing chains to sell out immediately and online stores to backorder copies for weeks in an effort supply all the Oprah women of the world desperately seeking the secret to a perfect relationship with some magic advice. At any rate, AJ brought the book along when a couple of us met up at Bahama Breeze one night for cocktails. My girlfriends and I sat there at the bar drinking frozen froo-froo drinks, reading passages, identifying the bad traits of past boyfriends and dates from hell, identifying disgustingly clingy traits of our past selves, and screaming with laughter. Eventually, AJ set the book on the bar and before long, the young bartender was flipping through it with acute interest. He set the book back down, looked at the three of us, and said in all seriousness, "If you ladies need a book to tell you this crap, you've obviously got bigger problems than landing a decent guy."

Personally, I couldn't agree more with the bartender.