Hey guys, Will Abel here.

This is my first time in a forum but I'm willing to try it after reading The Game and doing a little research. At this point, I feel i get the basics about inner game and willing to blend any learned techniques that will put me in better with the ladies.

I've been out of a 5 year relationship for a few months and she's started seeing other people, which I want to do too. I'd been with her since I was 17 and she was 15, which makes me 22. High school and the real world dating scene are not quite the same. I dated girls I met in classes, when I was seeing them every day and building rapport slowly.

I know the Laws of Attraction are about the same but I don't know how to do that as quickly as necessary to garner serious interest in bars and with day game. If I do get the number, my text game is seriously lacking.

Here's what happened tonight:

I went to this neighborhood bar that always has pool and has karaoke on Sundays, when some nice looking girls show up; some trashy, some adventurous. I've been here enough times to know the regulars and potentially work them into sets when need be. I'm good enough at pool and a decent enough singer to demonstrate value passively at first and sense IOI's based on that. I could definitely stand to approach more though.

Anyway, after my buddy and I sang 'Midnight Rider,' we resumed playing pool and a girl close by named Lauren (redhead, probably 27 with lots of freckles but huge tits and a loose feel to her) with a guy next to her and a drunk older vulture lurking in the shadows says...

HB: what're ya'll gonna sing next?
WA: shit, you wanna here me sing some more?
HB: Yeah, you were great (extends hand with high five, I oblige)
WA: What're you gonna sing?
HB: Gretchen Wilson
WA: Lemme guess, "Gunpowder and Lead" (A lively country song about a girl's waiting for her abusive boyfriend to come home so she can shoot him)
HB: (nods proudly)
WA: Nobody ever sings that song (dickishly)
HB: You don't like it?
WA: It's okay for what it is. (BLAND but she seems pleased)

I talk with her 4 times, receiving various IOI's from her such as the subtle brush-up-against and about 10 seconds of 'back that as up.' At a certain point, with me and my friend on one side of the pool table and her guy "friend" (her words) and the vulture working their miserable game (excessive touching met by her taking their respective hands off of her, etc.). She walks over our side of the pool table, literally putting a barrier between her and the AFC suitors.

When we talk, I am calm and confident, which was hard to muster. I give her shit and she tries to give it back, which I parry into her seeming unoriginal or I know I look better than the other two guys, but she did come here with one of them and the drunk vulture saying 'damn the torpedoes' with his game.

About closing time, my friend Bruce and I announce our departure before the girl and her 'friend' get to. We say by to the regulars to show that our presence is known. She says bye to my friend Bruce non nonchalantly, extends her hand to me and says 'You're Will, right? I'm Lauren"' (obvious IOI) They walk out the door first and my friend and I leave appropriately soon after.

Her friend goes back inside for some reason, the first chance to talk to her alone. I approach and say...

WA: Hey, when're we gonna hang out again
HB: Idk (playfully) I guess I could give you my number (she does).
Call me and I'll text you when I get home

45 min later, I text her as my friend says its a better idea

WA: It's Will. Whatre you doing later?
HB: No response as of yet.


Sooo now that you're up to speed, where do I go from here to get it in

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Willing and Able,
-Will Abel

On when to call subject i'd say it doesn't really matter if you call her sooner or later.
BUT I like to wait at least one day, and then it depends on how much connection we have when she gives the number.

If the connection is weak, you should call sooner, so that she even remembers you.
But if you have a strong connection - I had that with one girl at some classy party, she was sitting at next table, with her back turned to my approaching path, no way to approach without scaring her. Anyway, we had some eye contact and even a smile actually; I ended with her facebook as she didn't want to give # - you could wait longer, I waited 5 or 6 days, than added her, than waited a couple of days before chatting with her. The chat went like this:

Mago: Where have you been HB?
HB: Hey What's up
HB: Soo you finally added me
Mago: Yeah, don't say, busy week...So what have you been up to?
HB: ) I'm glad that you did
HB: Nothing much,/.../

We haven't met since than, but we have a nice chat every now and than, since the logistics is killing me (she lives far away)

If she doesn't reply...I would wait few days and call her. As i figure, texting is good when keeping in contact and when you don't care about reply so much and not so good in first interaction. At the moment, she has the power because YOU are waiting for her to replay.

And as for the next time, I would suggest waiting at least till the next day, and than later in the next day you send something like "hey babe, you survived the way home?"
It says that you had great time after the party so you didn't think on her, but you still remembered her next day (and I'm not talking about texting her first thing in the morning!) and it's a subtle and funny way for letting her know that you care.