So I'm in a huge quandry. I got the invitation to mi brudda wedding. I've known this cat since fetushood and so there's plenty of background to the situation so please bear with me.
My problem is that I don't have a girl to take right now. The wedding's still a few months off and the only two options is to either show up with a date or without one. As much as I'd love to show up without out and be all fucking Stiffler to the max, I can't just bathe myself in eau de confidence and breeze through this one. For one, I've met a lot of the people who are gonna be there.
Ok, time to rewind a bit further; me and mi brudda, despite our bond, have drifted apart ever since the start of high-school because of living in different towns and going to different schools and getting to know different people. I know his high-school crew will represent. Now, I met a couple of them very briefly here and there, but the one time I chilled with all of them in one place at an NYE party a few years back I made a complete ass of myself. I remember it very clearly (ironically), because it was the only time in my life I've been black-out drunk. Yeah, it was bad.
So fast-forward back to now. They're gonna be there, I know most of them are already started careers (and even worse, will be gf'd up) and I've got three things already working against me 1) the bad impression I must have left on that fateful NYE, and 2) I'm still trying to juggle low wage jobs and school, and 3) no date.
I've certainly thought about asking a friend to come along, but the only girl I know whom I could trust to faithfully represent me as a make believe girlfriend is pregnant and will only become more pregnant by the time the wedding rolls around so that fucks me quite extensively.
Right now it's looking like my only option is to go solo but it's really, really important for me to be a boss and leave a fucking immaculate impression to completely erase any other memory of me anyone might have left. If all I need to do is stand in a corner all night and look good, I'd have it made; no question. My problem is I shit on myself for never being up to my own high standards, and that makes it impossible for me to just fake confidence while I explain to someone I'm meeting for the first time that I'm still a student and a broke-ass one at that. I just end up feeling ashamed with myself in such situations and pull a disappearing act as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
I absolutely cannot allow that to happen at this event, but I'm a loss at what to do. I have confidence in my appearance; I know I look good and have a killer fashion sense, but from the moment I open my mouth I start heading downhill like a soapbox racer in San Fransisco. I'm thinking I might be able to salvage myself if I take a dance lesson or two and at least present the image of a man's man (the DJ is gonna be spinning some R&B Top40ish stuff I have absolutely no concept of what its like to dance to) but if that and my looks are the only ammo I'm going with I'm still going to freak out and feel like a failure before I even arrive.
So I gotta know, how can I not fail myself and my buddy who is gonna expect me to look good at his wedding?!
My problem is that I don't have a girl to take right now. The wedding's still a few months off and the only two options is to either show up with a date or without one. As much as I'd love to show up without out and be all fucking Stiffler to the max, I can't just bathe myself in eau de confidence and breeze through this one. For one, I've met a lot of the people who are gonna be there.
Ok, time to rewind a bit further; me and mi brudda, despite our bond, have drifted apart ever since the start of high-school because of living in different towns and going to different schools and getting to know different people. I know his high-school crew will represent. Now, I met a couple of them very briefly here and there, but the one time I chilled with all of them in one place at an NYE party a few years back I made a complete ass of myself. I remember it very clearly (ironically), because it was the only time in my life I've been black-out drunk. Yeah, it was bad.
So fast-forward back to now. They're gonna be there, I know most of them are already started careers (and even worse, will be gf'd up) and I've got three things already working against me 1) the bad impression I must have left on that fateful NYE, and 2) I'm still trying to juggle low wage jobs and school, and 3) no date.
I've certainly thought about asking a friend to come along, but the only girl I know whom I could trust to faithfully represent me as a make believe girlfriend is pregnant and will only become more pregnant by the time the wedding rolls around so that fucks me quite extensively.
Right now it's looking like my only option is to go solo but it's really, really important for me to be a boss and leave a fucking immaculate impression to completely erase any other memory of me anyone might have left. If all I need to do is stand in a corner all night and look good, I'd have it made; no question. My problem is I shit on myself for never being up to my own high standards, and that makes it impossible for me to just fake confidence while I explain to someone I'm meeting for the first time that I'm still a student and a broke-ass one at that. I just end up feeling ashamed with myself in such situations and pull a disappearing act as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
I absolutely cannot allow that to happen at this event, but I'm a loss at what to do. I have confidence in my appearance; I know I look good and have a killer fashion sense, but from the moment I open my mouth I start heading downhill like a soapbox racer in San Fransisco. I'm thinking I might be able to salvage myself if I take a dance lesson or two and at least present the image of a man's man (the DJ is gonna be spinning some R&B Top40ish stuff I have absolutely no concept of what its like to dance to) but if that and my looks are the only ammo I'm going with I'm still going to freak out and feel like a failure before I even arrive.
So I gotta know, how can I not fail myself and my buddy who is gonna expect me to look good at his wedding?!
