It happened few months ago. My long term best friend had a birthday party and I was invited. By nature, I am kind of introvert, and just the idea of coming there to the place where there will be a lot of people I do not know made me feel a bit insecure. Still, I realised it would be unkind to miss her birthday, so I decided to go.
I did feel uncomfortable at first, for two reasons. One was that there were a lot of women there (do not know the exact number), and only two men other than me. The other reason was that most of those people were older than me. In fact, my friend was turning 22, I was 21, there was one more woman aged 21, and all others where 25+ years old.
But I did my best not to look too insecure and “creepy” so I played cool, had few drinks with them and some casual talk. Than we played a game in pairs and I happened to play with that woman, lets call her Lisa.