making derogatory comments about my limited wardrobe. I wipe the sweat off my face and in aflash a girl, alone, enters my view.My eyes must have adjusted to the darkness because I see her clearly. She has long black hair, a petite nose, enormous dick-sucking lips that seem out of place with her olive complexion,and small, expressionless eyes. She begins to turn away from me and in that quarter-second profile view all I can see besides her thick, shaggy hair were these two lips that protrudeunnaturally from her face. By the time her back faces me my legs are moving and my right armrises from its resting point besides my hip. I tap her three times on her left shoulder, and sheturns around and looks at me.“Let me guess,” I say, pausing to build suspense, “you are from Argentina.”“Nope,” she says. Her lips curl up slightly, and that encourages me to continue. It’sobvious to me that my appearance meets her minimum requirements.“Colombia?”“Nope.”“Italy.”“No.”“The world has over 180 countries, and I know them all. This could take a while. Giveme a hint,” I say with a slight smile.“I’m a mutt,” she says.“I’m a mutt too. Go on...”“Quarter Somalian, quarter Filipino, half-white.”“Wow… I mean…” I try to regain my composure, “I would have probably never gottenthat.”“Probably not, where are you from?”I go into the whole Persian / Turkish thing, telling her that explains my thick, lusciouseyebrows and generally hairy complexion. She laughs and I realize I’m no longer leaning againstanything, but standing near dancers who are bumping into me and not apologizing. It’s mucheasier to figure out where to put my hands if I’m leaning against something. I take two stepsaway from her towards the bar. At the moment I step back, I leave my right arm suspendedrandomly in the air as if it was a bridge, and ask her where her friends are at, an innocuousquestion that gives her an acceptable excuse to follow a strange man two steps towards the bar