The Pool of Options

I have just started watching Offspring on TV and I must say I actually really like it.

In one episode, Nina had what was supposed to be a one night stand and she couldn't shake the 'afterwards' as her relationship hat went straight on.

I think I can relate, I have said it before and I will say it again, sometimes I wish that I just had the emotions of a guy.  For some reason most guys seem to be able to master and perfect the act of a one night stand. I am eagerly looking for some tips to be able to perfect it on my end.  Any suggestions would be very welcome.

I wonder if it has something to do with age, I do remember being in my twenties and it actually was so much easier.  But back then it was also so much easier to have a 'pool of options'.  What pool of options do I have now?  At the moment, not being in my twenties has reduced the pool to about nothing, mainly due to me being more selective, picky, less likely to talk to a random guy and also less likely to go out more than once or twice a week.

I will even put it to the places in which I now frequent.  Last Saturday night me and Janey went out on a little food tour.  I wouldn't say that the three places we went to, which were two restaurants and the newly refurbished El Loco in Surry Hills were prime positions to open up our 'pool of options'.  Alas our challenge 'First to Pash Wins' - did not even get a chance to start.... were we just being too picky? Or are we these days so content to have fun within our small but tight circle of friends that we fail to notice those outside of the circle?

My bestie tells me that Sydney is just too snobby, that people actually don't care to venture out of their comfort zone and are just content to stay in their own circles.  And I do agree.  Take for example the last time I 'hooked' up.  Italian, traveller, not from Sydney.  - Is this the ugly truth?

My chances of venturing out of Sydney will not happen in the near future and even if after the last attempt of a one night stand was a success in terms of me not having the relationship hat on, it failed in the sense that I came out of it grossed out that I even went there.

I dread to think, is that an indication of what's left in my pool of options?

Yours truly,

Miss A