Dear Bartender: What’s a good mixer for Bacardi? I like how fast it works to feel the effects but I can’t stand the taste. Rather than waste what’s left of the bottle, I’d like to numb the bite.
–BAM
Dear BAM: Allow me my personal prejudices. The only good use I’ve found for rum is Bananas Foster. But to be honest, I’ve yet to try the intriguing-sounding Dark & Stormy. I suggest you try it and get back to me.
Dear Bartender: As far as I can see, I am the first German on your page, so “Guten Tag” and “Wie geht’s” to you!
I am very interested in a band member of an American band that will be touring in Germany soon. We have written e-mails almost daily for the last year and a half after I saw him at a gig and fell in love with his shy smile. Our communication ranges from tame to outright flirty.
Yet despite the flirting, he seems strangely evasive. In London, where we first met “properly,” he suggested a steamy night together – then immediately excused himself and said that he was being “too cheeky.” After he had returned to the States and we continued writing e-mails, he mentioned that it was very responsible of us not to have fooled around. I’m not a supermodel but I certainly have charisma and curves in all the right places and – thanks to many years in the service industry – an open and friendly approach to people, although I can be very outspoken at times. My best friend (who is a man) claimed that I probably intimidated the guy. Apparently, I seem to do this to people.
He keeps referring to himself as “weak” and claims that he would get on my nerves after three days. He plays in Germany at the end of the month it’s also his birthday and I would like to give him a nice birthday kiss. A nice DEEP birthday kiss. How do I get past his shyness and his evasiveness and do you think he likes me at all?
–Flustered Waitress
Dear Waitress: Three days? He’s being too kind. He got on my nerves after three paragraphs.
His use of “cheeky” notwithstanding, he’s clearly an American. Americans can be direct in many ways – but sex ain’t one of them.
Tell him you’d love to get to know him better, but you don’t get the whole cat-and-mouse thing. Tell him it’s not the way people do things in your country. Ask him to explain how people do this kind of thing in America. Act interested in his answer – then, halfway through it, plant your birthday kiss.
Note to readers: You may have noticed that I haven’t blogged much lately. Congratulations on being observant.
