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Although the dating game changes as women age, there’s one thing that never gets old like searching for the right one. After seeing Hitch for the first time a few weeks ago- I know I’m super late- Eva Mendes’ character reminded me about a piece I wrote for the New York Post a few years ago on finding single men at a club or a bar. It can still relate to the single gals out there….

JOIN THE CLUB
I never have a problem meeting guys at a bar, but picking up the right one can prove to be a “mission impossible.”

I went out to two of the city’s top nightclubs, PM and Stereo. I quickly learned that, oftentimes, men claiming to be single at a bar are anything but.

When I arrived at PM, I was ready to mingle all night long. The crowd was filled with twenty- and thirtysomethings from the outer boroughs. There was one particular group of boys who had that urban-preppy look I prefer. A blue-eyed Italian guy donning a spiffy sports jacket was zooming in on me when he saw Post photographer, Graham, waiting to shoot us.

When I mentioned I was working on a story for The Post, he aggressively requested that we leave him alone. When I asked his friends why he changed his mind about speaking to us, they confessed that he (along with most of them) had girlfriends- if their faces appeared in the paper, they would’ve all turned into dumpster material.

Out of all the single men we came across, only two were Latino, and I had the most fun dancing with one man named Carlos.

Doing the wedding ring check doesn’t provide enough certainty these days- a guy could just slip it in his pocket. Unless you tell a man that his photo will be published in a major newspaper, I don’t think there’s any other legal way of finding out his relationship status. -Mercedes Sanchez