Okay, I can logically understand if you were alone but were wearing a ring. If your husband was with you then they must have been total jerks. - caj needs a haircut

Pretty much, Alan. Always kept a safety ring on me when I was single, just for the rare times it did work. - FFing Enigma

ha! you think we care what your social status is? - NoahDavidSimon

Three bloody mary's made me think you'd care, Noah. - FFing Enigma

Being single sucks. But then again, it's nice sometimes too. I was never into the bar scene myself. I was a whole lot social about 8 years ago, but have turned into a social introvert. - Beau Liening

Rings don't matter for skeezy guys. They might even make it more challenging. At least it's over. :/ - caj needs a haircut

I like being single, personally. Doesn't it bug you to have someone always in your space? Or does that not matter once you've found the right chappie to marry? - Soup in a TARDIS

I liked being single, at least so far as having time to myself was concerned (but not the going out and meeting people part). Dave and I spend a fair amount of time apart for a married couple, though. Between one of the bike clubs and pool league he's out of the house three nights a week. With that, work, and sleep, we see each other less than some dating couples I've known. - FFing Enigma

They do if they have guns. - tehKenny

So, for single people, the only choice is the bar scene? - Anthony Citrano

I love being single but I must admit, douchebags make me want get married or turn gay -- whichever comes first. ;) - Mona Nomura from fftogo

Or I should say - the rational choice? I don't get why single people hang out in bars for exactly the reasons mentioned here. - Anthony Citrano

Of course not, Anthony. I'm saying I'm not cut out for the bar scene and I can quite easily avoid it now that I'm married. When I was single it was safer to go out in a group than by myself, and when the group consensus was bar, that's where I went. - FFing Enigma

Heh I know Tina that was the reason for my quick (but not quick enough) follow-up comment. :) - Anthony Citrano

Kind of funny from the opposite point of view, friend of mine, married, was mystified why this guy was hitting on her- she went out with him, and a couple they knew (her husband stayed home), and he walked her home, and they were totally trashed. I'm like, uh, as a single woman I wouldn't be in that situation if I didn't like the guy... - anna sauce

Honestly, as a single person, the bar is the last place to meet people. Where, you can meet Mr Right.... Now haha. I don't think anyone goes there expecting more, really. - anna sauce

@anna wow that's playing with fire, i'd say... (your story about your married friend.) Sounds to me like there's something there. - Anthony Citrano

@Chris: I do a lot of things my square, Christian friends don't approve of, but married chicks ain't one of them. ;-p - Anthony Citrano

When I told her that, she was honestly freaked out that I'd think that. I'm serious. I think married/coupled people get this weird security blanket and they never think their behavior could be construed differently. Another case: at a convention in Utah, my colleague (male, married) was playing shuffleboard with a few of us at a bar, he'd been talking to this girl all night, they were both drunk, the bar closes, she invites him back to her room. Him: completely surprised. I'm like, uh, what did you think was going to happen?? - anna sauce

Him: "I have a ring!" me: your behavior speaks differently... - anna sauce

It's not their fault at all, it's also mostly that they don't know slimey married people who act that way & continue on with the propositions! - anna sauce

Making a bad name for married people everywhere, ha. There are douchy single people, douchy married people, blah blah blah - anna sauce

totally agree anna. - Anthony Citrano

Didn't like bars when single don't like bars when married. I didn't get it, too loud to talk, to dark to see, and too poor after a few drinks to afford a date anyways. I pick up girls the old fashioned way now, on the street corner with a 20. - SteVe C

My friend got his wife at dance lessons. The woman he dated before her was also found in dance class. I know another guy who tried finding a...uh...dance partner. At first, I couldn't figure out why any guy would want to go to ballroom dancing. Gah. - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

yeah. [sigh] - edythe

I was married for 32 yrs. Now I meet women with my camera. It is amazing how easy it is to start a conversation with a stranger. Now I say I arrived alone and leave alone, but have a great time in between. - Russellreno

I could go into a whole diatribe about allegedly straight men I've met in (non-gay) bars and how their behavior belied their self-description, but I'm thinking that I really don't have to. - Derrick

sorry to hear that, Tina. Take it (them) as a compliment(s) and have another Porter, or IPA, or... - Vicarbott

I never did teh bar scene. I met my wife at a bar though. 18 years ago. If something happens to her I'll stay a lonely old man. I can't imagine having to "get out there" again. Yuck. - G Dub of the Carolinas

does hubby swing then after a drink Tina? - NoahDavidSimon

Not a bit, Noah. However, there was a couple at the bar last night that was very obvious on the prowl for a 3rd. - FFing Enigma

I'm on the prowl for a woman that is rich so I could buy prostitutes - NoahDavidSimon

Why not just buy your own and cut out the middle man? Or woman, as the case may be... - FFing Enigma

an Obama dollar won't buy me a greased rodent to shove up my sphincter. I figure best to find some woman with a nice tax shelter in Bermuda and have a blast. I'm also considering running a pyramid scheme on old ladies from Canada. I'm writing a very gay musical. I'm calling it "Springtime for Robert Scoble and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad" - NoahDavidSimon

Thankfully managed to find a great one without needing the bar scene. Whew! - S of 2C

The really sad thing for me is that I am single and I have realized that I am no longer cut out for the bar scene. D'oh. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker

Mathew - nothin' sad about that at all, as I wuz sayin’ - it's the single-folk-bar-scene that's sad. - Anthony Citrano

or maybe just a pyramid scheme on the female members of our U.S. government. cronyism always goes in style with totalitarian governments... ripe for the pick'n. consider it a public service. - NoahDavidSimon