Take My Picture

How many times have you been out at night, and a group of women are taking those ridiculous digital camera pictures?

I mean really, how many pictures do women need of they and their friends drinking? Now I know most women love putting these pictures up on their online dating profile.

These kind of pictures, by the way, are really poor choices to put on your profile, because if you put up three pictures of you getting sloshed when in fact you don't really drink that often, this will tend to cause a disconnect somewhere. Not only that, but when I look at pictures of women (or men) drinking in their online profile, especially if they have more than one of those kind of pictures, I don't see “fun person” . . . I see “lush.”

This blog is not about your drunken digital pictures on match.com, though you would be wise and take my advice and take down your party girl (or party boy) pictures unless you want to continue to receive emails with the subject line “Party!!!!!!” This blog is all about how to have a fun time with those party girls with the digital camera.

I was out with a client the other night, and we saw one of these groups of girls taking pictures of themselves with their digital camera. My client said to me “I am going to go over there and take their picture.”

I said “No, no, no . . . You don't want to be a photographer. Everybody uses that approach. You need to walk over and say 'Let me take your picture' just like you were going to, but you need to add one more element after you've finished taking their picture.” Then I described to him a better way to approach this situation:

I told him “Hand the camera to one of her friends and say 'Now take a picture of all of you with me.' Stand in the middle of the group for the picture and put your arms around the two girls next toyou. When you're there, follow-up very quickly and say to both of them: 'Now you can tell your friends that I was the crazy guy you slept with that night.'”

“One of them is going to respond, if not both, and they are going to laugh. You're then going to say 'You better tell your friends that I was good.' Then you start talking about the great sex that you had with her.” Then I sent my client over to try it with that group of girls.

This is a far more interesting approach then just taking their picture. It also just leads to much more fun stories, especially when people are drunk and having fun.

So try this approach the next time you're out.

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