There are so many things going on when you are at a bar, that it is easy to forget some of the basics of conversational etiquette.

You're watching people incoming, left, right. You monitor that cute girl on the other side of the room, waiting for the logistics to clear up so that you can approach her. You see the girl at the table beside you is giving body language signals that she's not interested in the guy she's with. Your head snaps over to see the bachelorette party on the left being approached by two geeky guys--you lock on their eyes and see that they are giving each other eyecodes that they want to leave.

You're suddenly interrupted from your train of thought by a cough beside you. You snap into focus and remember that you've been talking to this girl for five minutes already.

Her: "So what do you think about that?"

You already begin to feel the effects of the awkward silence between you two and your heart starts pounding as you realize you have no idea what she just said. You are about to look like a fool.

It's easy to forget to give the person you talk to your full attention. Sure, keep an eye on what is happening around you, but make sure you LISTEN to the people that you are talking to. Nothing looks more disingenuous than wandering eyes. And it's just really annoying when it happens to you.

Give great eye contact. Listen and focus on what people are saying when they talk to you. Otherwise you look like you have an agenda and people will be turned off you. Don't be constantly looking for the next more exciting group of people to talk to.

Make quality interactions with each person that you talk to and your nights will be much more fun.