I keep her around because she's pretty easy going, not to mention a banging body and ass for being a personal trainer.

The 18 year old is stupid, but fun to fuck.

It's not a waste of sexual energy.....at this point. My drive is pretty high - for new pussy.

It's apparent I get bored with old plates.

Wow I just hit on a 26 year 7.5 blonde girl on campus that I first hit on back last August. I hit on her because she looks like shes 22 in fact I was in disbelief when she said she was that old, good shape.

We went on a date back then that ended in a kiss in her car and a second date like 5 months later. She was flakey and full of schedule excuse bullshit after first meet. Second meet ends in heavy makeout outside a bar, she won't come back. I work her for a third date same flakey bullshit schedule, so I moved on until recently I texted her basically to come over and watch a movie since she is really into films and Hollywood.

She accused me of NetFlix and Chill. I had had enough at this point no chase left in me so I just trolled her with how I was worried if I straight up texted her to just come over to makeout with me she would blow up her phone from too much excitement. No response this was weeks ago.

So I see a blonde walking at me today, just my type. She isn't wearing a hat, no sunglasses, hair up. She eyes me like she is flirting. I think wow great can't pass this up! So I turn and approach about some indirect stuff about the area to get a conversation going.

Then the weird stare.

Then it hits me... maybe I have hit on her before? I have now done that to 5 different girls without recognizing them from hitting on them before.

No...

This is a deeper stare...

Shit! It is her I have been on 2 full dates with this girl madeout with her grabbed her ass and been texting randomly for 9 months! I just texted her weeks ago to come makeout!

Travesty: "wait... have we talked before?"

Chick: "...yeah" (stare of disbelief)

Travesty: "...ooooohhh (still haven't recognized who she is)... well ya know I must have a type! Hahaha!"

Chick: "..." (starting to walk off still looking at me)

Travesty: "oh shit! hey... long time no see!" (still can't remember her name)

Chick: "....yeah I have to get going!"

Now... I mean if I played it super cool and recognized her off the bat from a distance I think I may have had a chance a date 3 and bang after all this time. Yet, somehow dissing her that bad (when I first approached her back in August I probably also spewed some indirect bullshit she recognized) that I couldn't recognize her after a full two dates then I approach her with the same bullshit as before...

I am trying to imagine her hamster launched by one of those cartoon gigantic slingshots to the moon.

Still proud I approached a girl I thought was hot when I was in a dour mood this morning. Even a year ago I would have been embarrassed about this, or been sour I missed a bang opportunity, now it is all fun and games after I happened I immediately texted my buddies about it laughing out loud as I was walking. I love trolling Western chicks.

As Gio would say: "Fuck your feelings!"

I hit on a college girl jogging down my street while I was skateboarding outside. I turned around, caught and glided next to her 15 feet off to her right, I gave her a smirk and a friendly little waist high wave as I was rolling slightly ahead she smiled, took out her earbuds and kept jogging.

I jumped off my board, picked it up and jogged with her for a few steps and said hi. She finally stops jogging. I say I saw her jog by thought she was cute. She cuts me off before I ramble:

Chick: "So you want my number?"

T: " Yeah, I do"

Chick: "Well then go for it" (with a smirk and a bit of an annoying tone)

I get out my phone.

Chick: "Not sure how I can look cute while I'm out running like this" In a bit of a little nasty self-loathing tone.

Should have said something like: "a little sweat isn't that bad" with a grin or a subtle jab. Instead I was a bit surprised by her overall attitude.

T: "Hey look you have the right to your own opinion, I thought you look cute"

Knowing this was just an awkward segway I rushed to change the subject:

T: "What's your name?"

Chick: As she puts number in my phone "I'm X"

T: "So you half way through your run?"

Chick: "I'm running to the gym"

T: "Ah gonna finish off the session with some weights?"

Chick: "Yeah I am" with a slight smile

T: "Good luck"

She jogs off.

Bottom-line I have met more than a string of girls randomly now in Southern California especially over the last 2 years where they are cute in appearance and even vocal tone, they try to grab the frame so hard though and act masculine in other ways. Mouths like sailors once they get the least bit comfortable with you. It is very off-putting.

The Southern California girls are very high in the looks department for America, very low in personality. They are chill and laid back and make good fuck buddies. Otherwise though nuh-uh. I would say a girl settling with your average SoCal girl is as crazy as guy thinking about a Colombian chick. You would really have to dig.

+1, college girl in the city for the summer. She's got a crop top and short shorts on, is the perfect type body for me, tall, skinny fit, basically a 9.5 with 8.5 face. Slightly exotic looking. I meet her during daygame because it's so beautiful out. Suggest grabbing a drink she says she doesn't have fake ID, ha. She loves my suit so we bounce to one of my main haunts that never cards any girl I bring in. She likes to drink champagne so game on.

Bounce to the next venue for some japanese food, she is really sweet, a little shy/anxious, down to earth, not bitchy at all, says she's from the midwest and mom was pretty strict. Score. We keep drinking, then bounce to a rooftop bar, damn I forgot how people in college drink. But she's all giggly and hanging on me. Then says 'I am definitely sleeping with you.'

Back to the crib, lead her to the bed. She strips down except for her bra, probably shy because she's light up top but it's really perfect for her frame. I say 'take it all off' and she does. This is the hottest body I've had naked in my bed, ever.
Makeout, she pulls me on top of her and makes these cute animal noises while we fuck. Afterwards apologizes for being 'loud,' I laugh and tell her she could have come even louder it's not like you know anyone in my bldg. She's getting pretty sleepy so I uber her ass home, she asks if she can see me again.

I bet you know the answer!

Hey great job! So going for drinks happened a few minutes after you met.

I have two questions:

1) What was your line to open, and how did the rest of the conversation play out?

2) What type of area where you at outside when you saw her and approached... park, public square, subway, coffee shop, beach?

+1 Russian girl in Denver.

Strictly speaking, does it counts towards my russian flag if she was born in chechnya but moved to the US when she was 13? Former dancer.

Screw that Russian flag. Take the chechen one, that shit is rare as hell. Congrats on the rare notch lol.

(05-29-2016 04:09 PM)Travesty Wrote:  Hey great job! So going for drinks happened a few minutes after you met.

I have two questions:

1) What was your line to open, and how did the rest of the conversation play out?

2) What type of area where you at outside when you saw her and approached... park, public square, subway, coffee shop, beach?

1) I asked if she was taking summer classes or just goofing off. She laughed and said she was planning to spend a lot of time at the beach this summer, wasn't taking classes. Also said she wasn't very familiar with the area so I assumed she just arrived from some rural campus.

2) Public park, so I suggested grabbing a mojito in the AC somewhere instead of continuing to sweat outside. She readily agreed. It was after work, but still early and hot out.

Was really into my look, kept touching the threads and staring at me, I could see she was thinking about where this could go. If I was this skilled at game, I'd do this every day. Definitely some good luck involved.

(05-30-2016 02:17 PM)DonnyGately Wrote:  

(05-29-2016 04:09 PM)Travesty Wrote:  Hey great job! So going for drinks happened a few minutes after you met.

I have two questions:

1) What was your line to open, and how did the rest of the conversation play out?

2) What type of area where you at outside when you saw her and approached... park, public square, subway, coffee shop, beach?

1) I asked if she was taking summer classes or just goofing off. She laughed and said she was planning to spend a lot of time at the beach this summer, wasn't taking classes. Also said she wasn't very familiar with the area so I assumed she just arrived from some rural campus.

2) Public park, so I suggested grabbing a mojito in the AC somewhere instead of continuing to sweat outside. She readily agreed. It was after work, but still early and hot out.

Was really into my look, kept touching the threads and staring at me, I could see she was thinking about where this could go. If I was this skilled at game, I'd do this every day. Definitely some good luck involved.

Nice work Playa!

I am just finishing up a small chapter of my life where I wanted to live a specific lifestyle for a short time and now have.

Today before I move on to a different type of chapter I had my two favorite plates over one after the other. One in the afternoon to drink champagne, make a meal, and smoke weed watch the NBA Game 7 and bang. The next girl came over an hour later we each had a whiskey and we banged.

I feel like I set out what I wanted to accomplish and gave it a concentrated effort. Feels like I left barely anything on the table, still more I could have done which I think is a good hungry feeling to have.

I hope this feeling and motivation persists as the satisfaction only increases. I think the vast majority of my Game goals as well as many other personal goals I would initially have wanted a long time ago are complete. This combine with adding some years on me has lifted a sort of weight off my shoulders. I feel like much of the rest of life I can just be pretty thankful as it is just beyond what I need.

^ Never let your guard down

I recently had a situation similar to Kaotic and Gio;

Just matched with this Dutch girl on Tinder and had the perfunctory few messages and switch to whatsapp (anyone else getting bored of dating, it's always the same flow chart *yawn. Well my summer starts this week so some Euro traveling should inject some new blood).

After I suggest we meet for coffee Thursday afternoon she asks if I have a facebook. I reply, "yea, like everyone else". She asks to see it. I tell her, "I understand and I want you to be comfortable" but my facebook is set to private so you wouldn't be able to see anything anyway. I suggest we face time/video call instead.

Next she suggests, I turn off my private settings long enough for her to look. Of course I reply, "I won't do that just to meet for coffee" and I move on. To be honest, I'm not even mad at her. She is probably one of those girls that plays it real safe or just had bad experiences on Tinder. However, I find that tedious and boring and honestly she wasn't even attractive enough for me to put in that much effort. But I know deep down that I am quite impulsive and adventurous and girls like that would just bore me after a date or two anyway. In my younger days I would have probably would have caved just to get the date but thank goodness I have found this thread and learned about the game. I now find myself nexting decently attractive women just based on characteristics I don't like about them, normally characteristics I would have previously suffered through just to get laid.

Even as bad as dating and women in general have become, having game, high value, etc still amounts to getting laid. Maybe not every single day but enough to keep one satisfied. I guess what I'm saying is that it is nice to have realized this now, especially after learning so much here.

(05-19-2016 12:29 PM)Travesty Wrote:  any approach is seen as taking zero energy and is about sexuality and self amusement.

You took the words rights out of my mind!

"Self Amusement" is a big part of my personal philosophy.

People always ask me.. How do I stay motivated? How do I continue to have fun? How do I avoid burnout? How do I stay passionate? How am I able to deal with constant rejection?

The answer is Self Amusement!

Entertaining myself is my #1 priority. Entertaining myself keeps things fresh and fun.

--

"Sexuality" is another key component of my strategy.

I am honest with myself about what I want. I am true to my sexuality. I refuse to settle.

For the past 8 years, even though I was in my 30s, I wanted 18 and 19 year olds. I only talked to cute 18 and 19 year olds. I talked to them everyday.

I had no shame or embarrassment about my sexuality. I made no apologies for my sexuality. I embraced my sexuality and went after exactly what I wanted.

This also helps me to stay fresh, motivated, and excited about gaming.

--

"zero energy"

Approaching girls and trying to fuck them should be fun. It should not seem laborious.

We must Learn to do it in a way that minimizes our emotional and psychological cost.

More fun, more self amusement, more in line with our true sexuality, and more energy efficient.

--

(05-24-2016 08:59 AM)WestIndianArchie Wrote:  I'm a bit obsessed with train pickups lately.

I just need to open my mouth. Yet I can't

Mornings can be tough if you are not a "morning person".

Sometimes, it takes a little bit of effort to get into a chatty mood.

I am not a morning person but when I have approached in the morning, I have been pleasantly surprised by the response of girls.

Generally speaking, I have found that:

- Girls who are headed to work or often chatty and open to conversation.

- They need the social "warm up" as much as we do.

- They don't feel threatened because they are not expecting to get hit on in the morning.

- Coffee makes people talkative in the morning

- Before you open your mouth, its important to demonstrate congenial, warm, pleasant facial expressions and body language. We want to appear completely non threatening.

- Giving a fuck hurts our success, NOT GIVING A FUCK is the most important thing! On the train, we often have to game in front of other people who are listening.. Fuck'um! Let them listen and learn!

- Look for cues to talk about. Her clothes, her bag, her coffee, her station, her shoes, her jewelry, her hair, her phone, etc. All of these things are potential topics of conversation.

Like you said, you just need to open your mouth!

^ 3 of my last 4 campus day game bangs were approaches in the morning.

In the morning I think girls are more amped up than guys in general, also they haven't had the stress of the day hit them yet.

It is too early to have a bitch shield.

(05-31-2016 01:18 PM)Travesty Wrote:  ^ 3 of my last 4 campus day game bangs were approaches in the morning.

In the morning I think girls are more amped up than guys in general, also they haven't had the stress of the day hit them yet.

It is too early to have a bitch shield.

Mornings are the best. Its so random and unheard of, it makes the interaction memorable, and she wont forget about it. From what I hear girls are dumbfounded when they hear one of my plates met me from an approach, supposedly it never happens, making it all the better. Weekdays and even weekend mornings. I'm sure Gio has tales of SDL's using a "oh they just don't make the lattes like they used to" elderly opener at 8am.

Ouch... May was brutal. Had only 1 bang, a 5. Maybe a 6. Whatever. Had a makeout and brief fling with a 9 which was a high point, and lost her and an 8 to shit tests I wasn't mentally prepared for. Right now going into June all I have are 3 8's who will answer text messages but not much more. One comes and buzzes around me when she's drunk and I'm at work. Haven't closed any of them yet and just trying not to scare them off for various reasons. One is newly divorced, one is pining for her ex, one is just about to break up her with BF, so she claims. Furthermore financial and time constraints are going to make going out much more difficult this month. No Tinder matches in several days. I was really hoping to have more than this going into the summer. Frustrated...

I wonder about guys stories and scales.

You had a brief fling with a 9 and are working on three different 8's?

I really would pay good money if a genie could send me pictures of these girls from members that throw 8s and 9s out and of the member in question to compare. Not saying I don't believe.m

I have never met a guy in real life that had a fling with a Victoria Secret caliber model and then has three high end bottle service caliber girls cooking where I could verify it.

Where are you? How old are these chicks? Are you Gmanifestos roommate?

(05-31-2016 11:24 PM)Tapestry Wrote:  Ouch... May was brutal. Had only 1 bang, a 5. Maybe a 6. Whatever. Had a makeout and brief fling with a 9 which was a high point, and lost her and an 8 to shit tests I wasn't mentally prepared for. Right now going into June all I have are 3 8's who will answer text messages but not much more. One comes and buzzes around me when she's drunk and I'm at work. Haven't closed any of them yet and just trying not to scare them off for various reasons. One is newly divorced, one is pining for her ex, one is just about to break up her with BF, so she claims. Furthermore financial and time constraints are going to make going out much more difficult this month. No Tinder matches in several days. I was really hoping to have more than this going into the summer. Frustrated...

Please change your username everyone is going to confuse it with Travesty especially if you are posting in this thread.

We're the same guy.

Speaking of being the same guy, you asked this question below and apparently relating to a post by DD2015, but DonnyGately answered. I went back 3 pages and couldn't find another post it might refer to. I don't know what's going on here, I think I'll go back to Everything Else where things make sense.

(05-30-2016 02:17 PM)DonnyGately Wrote:  

(05-29-2016 04:09 PM)Travesty Wrote:  Hey great job! So going for drinks happened a few minutes after you met.

I have two questions:

1) What was your line to open, and how did the rest of the conversation play out?

2) What type of area where you at outside when you saw her and approached... park, public square, subway, coffee shop, beach?

1) I asked if she was taking summer classes or just goofing off. She laughed and said she was planning to spend a lot of time at the beach this summer, wasn't taking classes. Also said she wasn't very familiar with the area so I assumed she just arrived from some rural campus.

2) Public park, so I suggested grabbing a mojito in the AC somewhere instead of continuing to sweat outside. She readily agreed. It was after work, but still early and hot out.

Was really into my look, kept touching the threads and staring at me, I could see she was thinking about where this could go. If I was this skilled at game, I'd do this every day. Definitely some good luck involved.

^ Yeah what the hell is that I didn't even notice.

Took May off to focus on my business. Business is good, back to crushing puss. Goal is five soft approaches a day for June (i.e. minimum elderly opener with no intention)

Tinder girl, 21yo, messages me out of the blue after flaking weeks ago can she come over.

Met at my place. She was 40lbs heavier than her pics which included a full body shot. Out of sheer idiocy I brought her upstairs.

Thankfully I did not bang.

Still, once again I could not escalate appropriately... This time my heart wasn't in it.

I worry that I have a lot of circuitry designed for MIMITW game, banter, slow escalation, that sort of thing and fuck up by trying to do the same thing for the fat chick I pulled off tinder. There is a lot of chemistry at the beginning that just deflates if I go into banter. I think the girl expects me to be more aggressive. How to do?

Or maybe it was me being sober...as some of the forum members mentioned at the Denver meetup I can be very serious while sober.

(06-01-2016 02:34 AM)storm Wrote:  Tinder girl, 21yo, messages me out of the blue after flaking weeks ago can she come over.

Met at my place. She was 40lbs heavier than her pics which included a full body shot. Out of sheer idiocy I brought her upstairs.

Thankfully I did not bang.

Still, once again I could not escalate appropriately... This time my heart wasn't in it.

I worry that I have a lot of circuitry designed for MIMITW game, banter, slow escalation, that sort of thing and fuck up by trying to do the same thing for the fat chick I pulled off tinder. There is a lot of chemistry at the beginning that just deflates if I go into banter. I think the girl expects me to be more aggressive. How to do?

Or maybe it was me being sober...as some of the forum members mentioned at the Denver meetup I can be very serious while sober.

TL DR

She lied to you about her weight, and has come to your place to fuck. But you have to seduce her, get her in the mood. Typical female behavior. She has a problem, and you have to solve it

If she was skinny, and she invested by coming over - what you do is check for red flags, and then escalate smoothly but quickly. You probably don't realize that verbal and physical sexual escalation - the confidence and dominance inherent in doing so - is also very attractive and comforting at the same time. A guy that takes charge, takes the responsibility off of her, and gives her maximum post bang leverage.

In this case, you need to push the fat girl away, and make her qualify herself to you.

If you can hide your disgust at her flab, in this particular situation - you get on her about flaking, and that she really doesn't like you.

She'll qualify herself to you verbally, but that's not good enough.

Deeds not words.

If she threatens to leave, show her the door.

Now's the time to teach and correct, because having boundaries and rules again makes you more attractive. She has to work for the dick. So she invests.

So instead of trying to draw her out like she was a pretty girl, you make her work for it like the dog that she is.

And once you get that dynamic, start treating your pretty chicks the same way.

________________________________________________________________
The Too Long Explanation

1. You did good by not banging her. However, your ego is hurt.

- It would have been second best if you shut down any chance of romance from the beginning. That would have preserved your ego, and it would have been a chance to enforce your own standards. It's easy to not approach a chick. It's hard to tell a chick to stop.

It's a necessary thing to develop as a player.

- It would have been best if you could have gotten a great sexual experience out of it, and made her and yourself feel good about the session.

This is really done by rewiring your own brain, rejecting society's judgment, and getting her to feel great about a sexual encounter that is fun in and of itself, not her bargaining chip to get into a relationship. (which is what fat girls do. They trade their blowjob skills, which at best last 87 minutes and occur infrequently, for relationships and all the shit that comes with putting a man in bondage.)

2. She was playing the cards she was dealt
- She expected you to bang her, even though she was overweight. Because she feels entitled.
- Society lets her feel entitled.
- Her genes want her to have sex (before it's too late)

I'm not mad at the girl for playing her part. Neither should you be mad at her for pulling a bait and switch. As we say in the community, Big girls need love too.

................

In terms of raw technique - do you need to move faster with girls that you aren't as attracted to?

I think that's your question. And my experience is that the answer is two fold

- Yes, by moving faster, by escalating quicker - your increasing her attraction towards you - because the act of escalation is sexy. It shows confidence and dominance. During night game, A real pro will see a girl, walk over, and start chatting - but before the three minute mark passes, he has her in arms.

But

- Being forced into action by a situation that she created and then made awkward - is her running game on you. She wants you to seduce her. She's making you do it. That's the dirty underhanded part, that's the thing that doesn't sit right in your gut.

"You put me in the game when we're down by 20 points. And you're expecting me to win!"

So the way to play this situation is that you need *her* to turn *you* on, as opposed to you moving first and fast to turn her on.

Most guys are used to pulling a chick. Pulling is doing what she wants, things that she likes.

You need to push her away, and get her to qualify herself to you.
She qualifies, she invests.

From there, you give her hoops to jump through. She qualifies herself to you, chases you, by doing things that turn you on.

A fat girl, depending on how fat she is, and where the fat is deposited, can sometimes be sexy visually - but more often than not, she needs to entice YOU verbally.

So it's a weird situation, where she comes over and expects you to seduce her - but you have to turn the situation around to where she seduces you. And she has a huge mountain to climb, because you don't think fat girls are sexy. Further, she might have never been in this situation - because most guys take charge - so she can get vulgar real fast. Vulgar in the sense that she can start rutting like a cow and it will turn you off.

Patrice talks about this somewhat. A certain kind of woman can appeal to your masculine energy - and motivate you to do things - as opposed to manipulate you.

So you're in the position where you have to teach her the womanly arts of how to get you to act right, even though she's not attractive....

Tough work, but doable.

WIA

Last night, I had a date whom I matched with on Tinder 2 weeks ago.

I called her on Sunday night to get it going after we failed to meet last week. She was receptive then, our conversation somewhat flirty.

I got her to meet at the tram stop on the main road my street leads onto. Running a bit as usual, I found her at a bench where I clapped my hands on her shoulders from behind. Our greeting was enthused; clearly, we both found each other more attractive than our photos. She's 29 but looked younger, a fair bit shorter than me, with features that implied Scottish heritage. Kind of hippie-ish — she wore her hair in dreads and those saroual pants. I'd rate her a high 7 — she may well be an 8 when naked.

She was reading her phone (düh) and told me about her friend's upcoming trip to Mongolia. I asked her what she was doing not smuggling herself in their bags. That set the tone for a really playful banter as we walked to a park near mine.

Along the way, while talking about where we headed to, I uttered, "Promise me you won't take advantage of the fact that we're going to be alone and abduct and murder me."
"Promise me you won't, either," She turned to me and replied.
"Pinky swear?" I smiled. We shook pinkies.

She asked me about work. I made sure to go over that cursorily. She remarked on the eeriness of the park as we walked along its outskirts, and how different it looked during the day. I said something about how it's close to her natural habitat (She's a wildlife firefighter). When she brought up how she was hungry, I was glad there weren't any eateries within the area....apart from my place.

At the park, we let loose through the playground with, well, childish abandon. It was expansive and wooden. She darted ahead of me when we were making our way through the ropes course, then we stood on a swing that had a massive seat. I grabbed her midriff and pretended to toss her (her belly was flat — that put to rest any fears of her being a SIF). We fell off, laughing.
I told her, "I'm guessing you've got a navel piercing?"
"How'd you know that?" She exclaimed.
"Oh the swing told me." (I should've said, we'll find out soon)

She was feeling hungry and thirsty, and thought we should head to the 7-Eleven. Since she'd asked if I had weed on the swing, I suggested bouncing back to mine; because have a wild guess where I'd left it?!

On the way back, we joked a bit about her cooking. Then she brought up how she had an interview the next day, and asked me to throw her a few questions. I used that chance to ask her cold-read questions, to which she lightheartedly scolded me for not taking her seriously. Upon asking, she told me her interview was at 1pm.
Enough time for us to fuck, I thought.
"Enough time for you to get there," I told her.

"How's Tinder been going for you?" She asked me a few minutes later.
I drew out my answer to tease her. Told her what did she think, with someone as attractive as I was.
'"It's pretty addictive, isn't it," I added.
"I know, right!" She agreed.
"All those people out there waiting for you."
"Yeah, it's almost like...a game."
"It's kind of like Pokémon with real people," I declared.
"You know, I've never even played Pokémon," she confessed.
"What! You haven't lived," I mocked.
"Don't say that," she pouted.
"I know...because at the end of the night, I'll look you in the eyes and tell you you're the most fascinating person that I've ever met."
"Which is what you say to every girl you meet on Tinder," she accused.
"Of course, but in your case, I'll mean it."

Upon reaching my house, she'd reacted in amazement at the interior, which only increased upon getting to the kitchen (which is pretty uniquely furnished, I'll admit). We hung there for a couple of minutes before I suggested the backyard. I drew a bottle of wine and glasses along the way.
She continued to be struck by the house, a feeling that I was sure was genuine. This awed reaction of hers had been, and was going to be a running theme of the night. My suburb is full of Victorian-era terrace houses characteristic of this part of my city, many of which are heritage-listed. Still, her impressionability was more than that of others I have over, and I commented to her later on that she looked like a kid in a lolly shop, it was that adorable.
I've got a set of steps set into our backyard wall which we ascended and perched ourselves on top.
I don't recall what we rambled about, but she was going on about the picturesque appearance of my neighbourhood. I fed her ideas to egg her on as I listened. Somehow the topic turned to art, whereby I suggested heading upstairs to check out my paintings. She more than willingly complied, OK.
I held out my hand, which she took, as we headed back inside. I'd been pretty good at keeping up kino.

We were in my bedroom, studying my painting, and I complimented her on interpreting it the way I had envisioned it when I was working on it. At the same, I motioned to my bed, sitting down, which she followed. I rambled on what forms of creativity did she have going for her, which I used to segue into a kiss...
...which she prompted backed away from, with a semi-jocular reaction along the lines of "Whoa, easy there tiger." (I don't recall what she said verbatim.)

She'd said, either then or earlier, that she wanted to take it easy after having left a 7 year relationship, and that she'd maybe kiss on the second date.

The topic was soon changed to my guitar, which she asked to have a go at. She was shit at it, predictably, so I guided her on strumming, chords, and scales, progressing through to a blues lick; it became a full-blown 20ish minute lesson. It was a good way to escalate kino.
She teased me once or twice about me getting blue-balled, which I agreed and amplified. I hoped I wasn't coming across as too thirsty.

By then, she felt like smoking my weed, so we walked to the 7-Eleven and bought tobacco, papers, a meat pie and sausage roll. Back home, I grabbed cheese and white wine before we sat on the wall again.

Our conversation jumped a bit of everywhere and I think we held our attention mutually. She did check her mobile periodically, which I called her out for. She seemed sorry and said that it was her brother or his boyfriend each time round, messaging . That and the fact that she cut me off while talking a few times at that point made me decide against LTR-ing her up.
I took the chance to establish comfort over a number of topics, which I emphasised by high-fiving her a couple of times. This was accentuated by us feeding each other cheese and pie.

We carried on the conversation in my kitchen. I let slip that I speak Spanish, which she told me she wanted to learn when we were on the wall.
I tried to go for another kiss, which she pulled away from once again. Nevertheless she was still expressing her enjoyment of the night, which again I had no reason to doubt - I mean she got a free guitar lesson out of me.

I walked her around the corner from my house and we hugged goodbye. The whole date took just over 2 hours.

TL;DR — I can't help but wonder what was wrong with my game; was I lacking in verbal escalation? Do some girls absolutely not put out regardless of how airtight your game is?

I know I've been doing my best to push each interaction as far as I can, i.e. aim for the first date bang. But I think some of that impetus to strike while the iron is hot stems from a lack of confidence in my dating game, in that she might lose interest after the first date.