Wingman

A good wing­man says “no prob­lem bro” when you ask him to go with you, and takes it as an oppor­tu­ni­ty to hang out.

He lis­tens and com­mis­er­ates and backs you up on your feel­ings when you’re catch­ing him up.

He even pays for din­ner when he’s the one doing you a favour.

He keeps a look­out in the sea of peo­ple so he can be aware of the sit­u­a­tion and warn you.

He stands fac­ing the door so you can have your back to it when talk­ing to him, and won’t be caught off guard.

He teas­es you about the cute ones, just like the good old days, when you went drink­ing in places too loud to talk.

He leads when you’re too ner­vous or self-con­scious to do any­thing, and he fol­lows with­out ques­tion when you take action.

He has a great time, and thanks you for the night.

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  1. I thought the wing­man was sup­posed to dis­tract the ugly ladies while the hero gets the “hot­tie” or cov­ers for you when you are actu­al­ly out with anoth­er woman? Then again per­haps we hang around with a dif­fer­ent crowd? :-)

    • The hero, in avi­a­tion terms, is also known as the “pilot”. And yes, that is usu­al­ly the sce­nario (as well as dis­tract­ing any male friends as well), but in my case, I need­ed a wing­man for some­thing oth­er than pick­ing up women. And no, it was­n’t pick­ing up men. :)

  2. Geez, with me and my girl­friends it was “every woman for her­self” attack strat­e­gy. Shouldn’t you just let the girl pick you?

    • I’ve got to agree with Xibee…The lone wolf approach is much, much sex­i­er than rely­ing on some “bro” :-)

      • I dis­agree Lloyd.

        Wingmen are very much need­ed when you have com­pe­ti­tion aim­ing for the same group of chicks. In this case, the wing­men approach allow you to engage and pro­tect the whole group of girls while tak­ing out the unde­sir­able ones one-by-one. Until the hottest tar­get that the pilot wants to engage start feel­ing uncom­fort­able. At this moment, the engage­ment of the pilot with the tar­get will cre­ate a sense of relief and worth for the tar­get that the hot­ness of the guy will increase by at least a scale of 2. Insecurity used to the utmost per­fec­tion. Not pos­si­ble with­out wing­men. Simply put, you get more strate­gies.

      • And all of this offensive/defensive capa­bil­i­ty enhance­ment applies to aer­i­al com­bat too. Wingman is such an awe­some metaphor.

    • Ah, but you see, just like a wing­man in a sor­tie increas­es the offen­sive and defen­sive capa­bil­i­ties of a flight, a social wing­man has many roles, not just attack­ing, such as:

      • moti­vat­ing the pilot
      • mak­ing sure he does noth­ing (under the influ­ence of alco­hol) that may be regret­ted lat­er
      • remem­ber­ing names or per­son­al details of the tar­get

      So you see, the social wing­man has a defen­sive or pas­sive role as well. I agree though that rely­ing on a wing­man can seem a lit­tle emas­cu­lat­ing.

      • Xibee

        Motivation, see among women, that’s a giv­en; but that’s up UNTIL YOU GET TO THE VENUE. After that, Touche.(avec accent I can­not find on my key­board.). Alcohol, true; we do that for each oth­er. But REMEMBERING NAMES AND DETAILS???? ::rolls eyes:: Guys.

  3. I think Top Gun teach­es us every­thing we need to know here…if you are a wing­man in the back seat and you have to eject you are a dead man (god bless Goose and may he rest in peace).

    • Ah, it’s Top Gun which brought the term “wing­man” into pop­u­lar usage, but it’s Swingers that pop­u­lar­ized the appli­ca­tion to social set­tings.

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