g.n.o.

It's been a while since I've been on a Girl's Night Out and been single but Saturday night I got a crash course. 4 of my friends and I, all single, gussied up and headed out for a late dinner and drinks at The Ivy. If you live in Atlanta and you haven't been there, do yourself a favor and check it out.

Before my third or fourth Washington Apple shot I was able to group the boys in the bar into categories:

1. Taken

2. Too Drunk

3. Not Drunk Enough

4. Fly Boy/Wingman

1. The Taken boys are the ones you will find the most attractive. They are calm, collected and seem to have just the right amount of alcohol in their systems. They make eye contact and smile at you, apologize if they accidently bump your arm and you think, OK, here's a really nice guy and then up walks his girlfriend, who is usually the girl who just spilled her Stella all over your suede Calvin Klein pumps.

2. The Too Drunk boys are the easiest to spot. Unfortunately these are the ones with the most confidence to come up and talk to you and tell you how nice your boobs look (true story). They may be great guys when they are at home but in the bar they come off as major douche bags who love every song that comes on and think it's necessary to grind on you like you're at a Middle School dance in the cafeteria.

3. The Not Drunk Enough boys are sometimes easily confused with the Taken boys. They are calm and collected but if you try and make eye contact with one, he'll glance at you quickly and then take a sip of his beer while looking away. This comes off as uninterested or insecure. Not hot. Even when he does get up enough courage to talk to a girl he will probably avoid the ones he made awkward sober eye contact with in the beginning of the night.

4. The Flyboy and the Wingman are like a comedic duo booked last minute on Last Call with Carson Daly. The Wingman will usually talk to you first in his overly-confident way, feel you out and then say, "Have you met my friend?" If you want my advice when you meet these two cheeseballs, RUN! The Flyboy may be cute but he's getting his friend to do all of the dirty work. This shows laziness and lack of confidence.

I know people are always saying that you'll never meet anyone of quality in bar and I never believed them. In college, the bar and parties were really the only places you would meet guys. But Saturday night I had an epiphany: This is not college. Of course it's easy to meet guys in college because everyone is a friend of a friend of a friend and you know you already have things in common with this person. They like Alabama Football, your pledge sister is dating his best friend from home AND he's smart enough to get into college.

In the bar, you could end up having a date with an Auburn fan and not even realize it until they come to pick you up and have a tiger tail sticking out of their trunk. I don't have a solution to this problem yet but there has definitely got to be a better way. Stay tuned!