Quick – it’s Friday, you had a hard week at work, and all your guy friends are busy this weekend with their girlfriends. You have three choices: you can spend your weekend playing Grand Theft Auto and eating Funyuns, you can spend another lonely weekend with Palmela Handerson and Handgelina Jolie, or you can get off your lazy butt and go find yourself an awesome girl to occupy your time.
What do you do?
For your sake, I hope you join the ranks of your friends and brothers by going out and meeting a beautiful woman. But what happens when you don’t want just any woman, you prefer women of another race? Yeah, I know, meeting non-Asian women as an Asian man can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. And here’s some good news: Asian women are still a minority, so anywhere you meet LOTS of women you are guaranteed to also meet LOTS of non-Asian women!
That’s why I’ve compiled this list of ten fun ways you can get out, have a great weekend, and meet more stunning non-Asian girls! What are you waiting for?
Go hiking
In this day and age, outdoor activities are more popular than EVER. You can always join a local hiking club (most places take regular Saturday hikes), but even if you go out on your own, the most popular trails are usually so active that you’ll pass tons of women on your way through the trail. A favorite pastime of Caucasian women especially, hiking has the added benefit of helping you burn off the Funyuns and Heineken from last weekend.
Go to a doggie day camp or dog park
If you don’t have a dog, this one’s not for you, because chicks DIG dogs, and if there’s one thing us women love, it’s seeing a man who likes animals. It tickles our warm fuzzies and makes us three times more likely to give up our phone number. Many places offer weekend training sessions, and companies like PetSmart offer a literal doggie day care where you can watch your Jack Russell wrestle with her labradoodle while you invite her out for coffee.
Take cooking lessons
If you’re still single, it might be because the last time you invited a girl over to your house for dinner, she spent the next day praying she didn’t have food poisoning. Like a man with a puppy, every woman enjoys seeing a man in the kitchen who won’t condemn them to a life of Taco Bell leftovers and Hungry Man dinners. Any man who knows his way around spices is guaranteed to be a fun time on the weekends. Ask her to pass you the basil – AND her number.
Go shopping at Whole Foods
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No, you don’t have to break the bank switching to all-organic fruits, becoming a vegan, and throwing away your regular deodorant for some questionable stick of patchouli-scented pit butter. No one is asking you to. But Whole Foods is notorious for a primarily female (and predominantly Caucasian) clientele, and since many of their customers are health-conscious, you’re less likely to run into unhealthy women who make you curse the inventor of yoga pants than you would be at Wal Mart. Don’t be afraid to ask her opinion on which brand of Ezekiel bread tastes better – she will be impressed that you know what it is. An added bonus: most Whole Foods stores have a food court you can use to snag an instant date.
Head to the laundromat
Oh mama. That’s an ass right there.
And no, I don’t just mean to wash the smell of Funyuns out of your clothes so that you can be acceptable in front of a pretty lady. In major cities like Los Angeles and New York, having a washing machine in your apartment is rare. EVERYONE goes to the laundromat. This gives you two advantages: you prove to her that you are neither a mama’s boy incapable of doing his own laundry nor a smelly pig basking in his own filth for weeks, and you get to liberate her from the boredom of twiddling her thumbs for an hour while her jeans dry. If you like Latinas, visit a laundromat in a Latin neighborhood. Black women? Check out a predominantly black neighborhood. You wouldn’t think a laundromat could help indulge your racial preferences, but you’d be surprised.
Take a dance class
Dance class is full of hotties who can groove.
You’re still reeling from that time you went to your friend’s wedding, tripped over your own feet, and made a complete fool of yourself. I get it. But nobody in a dance class expects you to be awesome. The women you run into are likely to be just as uncoordinated as you are. But unless you’re signed up for a bellydancing class or a class in West Hollywood, you’re guaranteed to be paired up with a female partner, giving you the perfect excuse to isolate her and work on your conversation skills.
Check out your friend’s office party
Wait, wait, wait, I know I can hear you groaning. Office parties SUCK. All they ever talk about is who keeps hogging the copy machine and which douchebag forgets to refill the coffee maker. But that’s why you’re awesome – you provide a welcome distraction from boring work banter and you will automatically become the new toy of the party. She will thank you for rescuing her. Plus, any girl you meet there, you know she has a job and probably won’t mooch off of you while demanding that you supply her with shoes and handbags.
Locate your nearest trivia night
Trivia Nights Always Have a Hot Bartender
Most major cities have regular trivia competitions at their hottest bars. In general, women do not like meeting men at bars; we automatically think any man approaching us is just looking to get laid. But trivia night is different. Take a group of single guy friends and offer to combine teams with a group of pretty ladies – you’ll have them isolated and get to talk one-on-one without being creepy, and for once they’ll be impressed with your extensive catalog of Star Wars trivia.
Get a hair cut – a good one
I know you hated being dragged to the hair salon with your mom as a kid, but bear with me on this one. Whenever you watch old movies, where did the men congregate? The barber shop. Where do you think women gather? The hair salon. You are guaranteed to run into scores of good-looking women who seriously care about their appearance, and since the average female haircut involves a shampoo, cut, color, dry, and style (anywhere from 2-4 hours), she’s not going anywhere. Female hair salons will give you a better cut than you can get at Grandpa Joe’s Discount Barber Shop, and the majority of women self-segregate at salons catering to their specific ethnic hair type, so if you’re attracted to a specific race, you’ll be able to find racially centered shops.
Take a yoga, Zumba, or pilates class
Going to the gym in general is a decent place to meet women who care about how they look while burning off your excess Funyuns, but enrolling in a specific class is even better because you know she’s not going anywhere. Yoga, Zumba, and pilates are all heavily female-centric; not only are they more entertaining than lifting weights by yourself, but they give you a great excuse to invite a girl out to a quick post-workout bite to eat.
AND A BIG PLUS: Girls in yoga pants… yum.
Written by Cindy Young