With a little help from my wing woman

Mr Miyagi can catch fly with chop­stick, Mr Miyagi don’t need help with the chicks. But for those who do, here’s an inter­est­ing dat­ing ser­vice called a ‘dat­ing mis­tress’ or a ‘wing woman’.

From the Syd­ney Morn­ing Her­ald (Reg­is­tra­tion may be required):

Keen to meet women, yet sick of rejec­tion by those who have heard every line in the book, a hand­ful of Aus­tralian men have decided to con­quer the dat­ing challenge.

Men have long roped in their mates to win over the ladies, with var­ied suc­cess. But for those who don’t have female accom­plices to do their dat­ing dirty work, assis­tance is avail­able for a fee of $60 an hour on weekends.

By day, Jes­sica stud­ies teach­ing at the Uni­ver­sity of Tech­nol­ogy, Syd­ney. By night, she moon­lights as a dat­ing mis­tress, or wing woman.…

…The 22-year-old says the ser­vice is sim­ply cash­ing in on an exist­ing social trend. “I have some male friends where the guy says to the girl[friend], ‘Hook me up with that girl’ or ‘Bring your girl­friends’,” she said.

Jes­sica will meet clients in a bar and get them to point out girls they are inter­ested in. Then she will approach the girl and strike up a conversation.…

…The man appears and Jes­sica intro­duces them, pre­tend­ing they are friends. But she shrugs off sug­ges­tions that such behav­iour is deceptive.

I dunno, might only work for Aus­tralians.

Could you chat her up for me, please? Yep, the one wav­ing at me.