I had a rough week a couple of weeks ago – I was consistently freezing at potential approach opportunities. I don’t suffer from “approach anxiety;” it’s more like my mind just goes blank and I can’t think of absolutely anything to say. I regrouped mentally and decided I needed to hit it hard.
I committed to keeping a log and including a lot of detail. Date and time, what I’m wearing, location, specifics about the girls and as much detail of the interactions as I can remember. I end each one with a Notes/Summary section where I discuss what I did well and what I could’ve done better and should improve upon. I update it as soon as possible after each approach or set of approaches. My next few posts in this thread will be modified from this log. I don’t intend to spam the board with every single one, but I’ll include ones that I think illustrate an important point, highlight a good or bad technique, or relate to an important personal development.
It started with an usual Saturday night.
I got in touch with a buddy of mine that I hadn’t seen for awhile, mostly because I was out of town for 2.5 months. He and one of his friends had been drinking all day and called me over to join them. I said I wanted to go out so even though they were kind of out of it they agreed. I met them at a different person’s place (long story) so they didn’t have any decent clothes. I was dressed decently (long sleeved blue & white checked button-down, dark jeans, nice shoes) and they were dressed like a bum and slob. However my buddy is 6’4, deep voice, good stubble, good hair – overall a pretty quality wingman to have. I’ve always wondered why he isn’t slaying bitches left and right. There could be a lot of reasons so it’s not worth speculating.
I’ve never ever discussed game with my buddy. Not at all. We get to the first bar and very non-chalantly I say that we should be on the lookout for girls. He’s all for it. I say let’s scope the place out and see what the situation is. The best option is 4 girls at a table. They are early 20’s, ratings 4, 4.5, 5, 6.5. They’re drunk and taking selfies – typical behavior. I say I’m going to go over and talk to them.
I come up with something on the spot. I go over to the table and tell the girls I need help. They ask what’s going on. I point to my friends and say that we have a bet and I need them to settle it for us. The bet is we had to guess how the 4 knew each other and whoever was the furthest away needed to buy the others a round. I tell them the options are: 1) work together in HR 2) kickball team 3) sewing/knitting Meetup group.
3 of them like the premise. One (the 4 of course) is offended by the suggestion of sewing/knitting. Not joke offended but really offended. Banter for awhile. Somehow on the topic of sewing I make a remark about them knitting garments for their cats. One asks me how I feel about booties. I like where this is going.
The 6.5 asks for my name, I get the girls names. One says her name is Lynn. I asked her if it was spelled Lin and if she has Chinese heritage (she is blonde). Ha ha. It’s going well, 6.5 is digging it. Suddenly the 4 panics, grabs the 6.5 and storms out saying they have to go. It’s obvious this was only her idea (one says “oh, I didn’t realize we were leaving”) as they all have half finished drinks. They scurried away quickly. The 4 is physically blocking me from the 6.5 (literal cock block!). I could’ve at least gotten her number, but it happened too fast and they escaped.
I told the others not to worry, we played it well but got thwarted by an impenetrable cock-block from the sour unattractive one.
Notes: I think it was pretty cool to just go up to 4 girls and start a conversation. I was pretty funny and charming and I had something good going. I can't think of anything I would've done differently.
2) The friend of friend (slob) left and my buddy and I went to another place to which we arrive around 1AM. This is more of a loud, dark atmosphere (venue for
this approach #3).
There are 4 girls sitting near a fake pay phone with smartphone chargers. 5, 6, 6, 7.
I can’t quite remember the opener. Something about my friend’s shitty flip phone and not being able to charge it or something about calling Ghostbusters. We just talked about random shit, what they do etc. I was standing next to the 5 and ended up talking to her the most. Backstreet Boys, One Direction, random nonsense. Leaned against her a bit, a bit of light touching.
Tip: twice this night groups of young girls asked me who I voted for so apparently this is a thing now. I told them that I voted for myself as a write-in. This led to some funny banter both times.
Advice: Young girls love the Spice Girls, Friends, and Sex in the City. It’s not necessary to know anything about these entities aside from who the main characters are. The song Wannabe came on as it often does in places like this. After it was over I asked them to identify as Spice Girls and then I assigned guesses. One (one of the 6s) called herself (6) “Lazy Spice” – I realized that for the future this would be a good jokey technique. Come up with silly adjectives – Lazy Spice, Clumsy Spice, Slutty Spice if you’re wanting to escalate.
Same concept applies to Sex in the City – the 4 characters are typically known by adjectives 2 of which are “The Slutty One” (Samantha) and “The Hot One” (Charlotte). This provides a very easy way to escalate. During a later approach (for a different post) 3 girls asked me to guess their names so I did Phoebe, Monica, and Rachel – I guessed Phoebe for the blonde ditzy one.
I talked about this and that with the other 6 and the 7. They got ready to go. I asked the 6 if she wanted to hang out, she said she was engaged. “To be married?” Yes. Congratulations.
Notes:
• I was leaning forward too much, should have better posture next time.
• My friend was really out of it so that didn’t help much. He apologized to me later and said he’d be better prepared next time (to which I replied “and better dressed.”) I can’t fault him though, I pulled him out of what he had been doing and it all kind of came out of nowhere.
• I also should’ve targeted the one I had done some touching with and escalated more. I doubt it was a sure thing, but appropriate target selection and isolation are key things I need to improve upon.
• I also hung around for too long. I should have left for a bit when things slowed down and come back later.
I considered some closing time Monkey Game but didn’t feel up to it.
Later on (2:30-3AM) I did a couple Gutter Game approaches. The last one I played very very poorly. I don’t want to go into detail due to excessive lameness but I know what I did wrong so I won’t make those mistakes again.
I didn’t score but it was a really fun night. I was so pumped up from adrenaline that I couldn’t fall asleep until 6AM. My friend said he really enjoyed it too and that he wanted to do it again soon. The idea of him being my wingman and not the other way around is ludicrous but I'll roll with it. It'll be like the legally blind leading the actually blind but we'll learn together through experience.
I’m a couple of weeks behind, so I’ll catch up as time allows.