The Monologues of the Master

Tonight had every opportunity to be an awesome night.I was meeting with the woman I hung out with last night for Lasertag at Strike Moore Park. But it turned out to be such great disappointment... Because in theory Lasertag is the perfect date: You run around and get sweaty while having fun in a competitive friendly environment. In the best of worlds the running around thing has an arousing effect and you finish the night by enjoying each others body.Even when the lasertagging does not have an arousing effect it's still more fun than talking for 3 hours.

 

So why did the plan backfire completely then? Well because the place was deserted due to an Aussie Rules game at the arena in the neighbourhood (it's somewhat reasonable that the ones who play lasertag also are generally interested in sports) So by mistake I bring a girl to a date to an empty lasertag arena. We start play one on one games which are never as fun as multiplayer games. (I reckon about 10 people in the arena is the optimum number when 25 people play it's just chaos and not as fun) One on one can still be a decently entertaining if you are relatively evenly match with your opponent, but if you match the lasertag champion VS a woman who has played lasertag once before in her life it's a very onesided and boring story.(like 40 kills VS 6 kills, no tension or excitement in that)

 

So instead of bringing a date to lasertag to prove what an awesome Friday night pastime it can be, all I managed to achieve was to appear as a totally lame jerk who brought a chanceless opponent to some very boring one on one games in a very lame attempt to show off.

 

Luckily there was one multiplayer game but that is still very unsatisfying as I had hoped there would at least 5 or 6 good games..:(

 

So to summarize: In spite of my good intentions, my plan backfired due to circumstances outside of my control. I am disappointed and I will probably spend the rest of the weekend sulking (which is really not a big deal as I am working anyway)

 

//The Master