I'm not sick of the bar scene. I got married to my first gf and I've been divorced now for about three years. I am older than almost everyone I hang out with, and some of the girls that I've dated are ... young.
I look at it as me being in arrested development for 13 years. I'm just lucky that I look young enough to pass for 25-28, rather than as old as I am.
As far as getting numbers and such... it's pretty hit or miss. I can have a great conversation with a girl for a short period of time or the better part of the night, and she may or may not get back to me. A random number get with no conversation rarely seems to work out.
Giving your number to a girl is always more interesting. The success rate is lower in terms of them getting back to you, but when they do, you know that they're interested. I've got a date tonight from that angle. She asked for my number the Thursday before last, said she never gives her number out to guys who ask, but then didn't contact me. She works at a bar, and I razzed her last Thursday, and then the next day she txted me.
Having a girl give you her number is the most strange in my opinion. It's a huge ego boost but... I haven't been interested in any girls who've ever bothered to do it. Whether it's because of my shallowness (none of them have been hot enough) or something more deep (a woman that eager seems desperate) I'm not sure. I think the former, because if a hot chick gives me her number? I'm calling her a couple days later.
Finally, the bars themselves. I live within easy walking distance of about a half-dozen bars and it makes it cheaper... I can prefunk with buddies at my place and then walk to a bar and be on cruise control the rest of the night. Also, being black-out drunk (which has happened a couple of times to me, unfortunately) is less dangerous knowing I can stagger three blocks to my place.
Ed O.