I will not give the America-hating Hollywood even one cent if I can avoid it.
That said, as a former single woman, I would advise you to look elsewhere to meet women. It’s awkward to sidle up to a girl in a dark theater without looking like a stalker of some sort. :)
I am guessing that one of the best places to meet women is in the grocery store. Everyone has to buy groceries, and it does not look suspicious if you cruise an aisle more than once to check out a chick, as long as you make it look like you are looking for a grocery item.
Women like to be helpful and to give advice, and a man looking helpless in the grocery store is kind of cute. (Looking helpless around a flat tire = not cute.)
If my idea sounds like a good one to you, I suggest you do a little homework first. Figure out the time when your local grocery store has the most singles shopping. I am thinking Sunday afternoon or Thursday night, but you need to do your research.
Follow-up homework assignment is to find a recipe and add its ingredients to your regular store list. You now have the perfect premise for asking an attractive total stranger for some help.
“Do you have any idea of where I can find thyme? I don’t know anything about cooking, but I made a New Year’s resolution to learn, so I am going to try to prepare ___.”
Well, you may not want to jump right in that quickly, but you get the idea...
I have men ask me for help frequently in the grocery store. Most of the time they are young men, and I am sure they pick a married 65-year-old woman to ask because she has probably been cooking for a long time. So chatting up a stranger in the produce aisle is perfectly normal, and, when your real motive is to meet a nice woman, you are in a nonthreatening setting.
Well, my inner advice columnist sure is going on today. FReemail me if you want more. :)
In my old NYC neighborhood it was around 6 PM on Monday.
“Women like to be helpful and to give advice, and a man looking helpless in the grocery store is kind of cute.”
Reminds me of a guy I saw on Christmas Eve at the jewelry counter looking very confused, eyes practically begging female passers-by for help and suggestions. I thought it was cute, but maybe it was only his MO for meeting women.