John Mayer stopped to talk to the paparazzi this weekend, just to update the world about his dating status. He’s single, he just wants us to know. This directly contradicts reports last week that he was dating a 23-year-old actress/model/cocktail waitress named Scheana Marie.

Captain Obvious also pointed out the logic to the photographers trailing him: “If I had a girlfriend, she would be incredibly offended by me saying, ‘I don’t have a girlfriend’… That’s how you can be sure. I could say, ‘I’m not with anybody.’ That’d be a death wish if you were the woman.” Well played, Mayer. Because if you had a girlfriend, there would be a photo-op. Because if you had a girlfriend, you would get on Twitter to announce the news. Because if you had a girlfriend, you would write a passive-aggressive song about it.

John Mayer swears he’s single!

Despite reports that the singer has found a new girlfriend after his breakup with Jennifer Aniston, Mayer tells paparazzi that there’s no special someone right now.

“If I had a girlfriend, she would be incredibly offended by me saying, ‘I don’t have a girlfriend,’” Mayer told X17 Online after kickboxing in Santa Monica this weekend. “That’s how you can be sure. I could say, ‘I’m not with anybody.’ That’d be a death wish if you were the woman.”

He added: “If you were the woman and you stepped out and said, ‘I’m not with anybody, you’d have to go home and take a lashing for the next three weeks! So that’s the proof.”

People reported Friday that Mayer has been spending time with cocktail waitress and actress Scheana Marie, but to prove that he’s unattached, he approached a complete stranger in a car and asked the middle-aged woman to be his girlfriend.

To seal the deal, Mayer kissed her.

[From US Magazine]

Oh, he kissed a random middle-aged woman! That must have made her day - in John Mayer’s mind. I wonder what that lady was thinking. Perhaps something along the lines of “That was the strangest dirt-lip I’ve even come in contact with.”

Because there are some people out there who defend John Mayer relentlessly, I’ll give him some credit. He’s smart enough to keep himself in the news without employing some hardcore publicist. All of his public relations machinations are pretty open, which is a rarity for celebrities. I’ll give Mayer credit for actually doing his own press work, even if it’s giving those impromptu press conferences for the paparazzi.

Here’s John Mayer leaving the El Ray Theater in Los Angeles on April 22nd. Images thanks to INF Photo.