| Strategy
Before I went out I had a strategy in the back of my mind. Me and my friend were kind of tipsy and I wanted to make sure everyone in there knew me. I'm going to approach women and dudes alike. As MUCH as possible.
So:
• Make sure I leave an impression
• Show people I'm having fun
• Be the life of the party
Field Report
For the entire week me and my friend had planned to go out. Continously I told myself in the mirror; "you're not going for girls, you're just going out and have a good time and if a cool lady just happens to come across, you open her." But deep in the back of my mind I was aware that I really wanted to go out there and game. I suppose this is a good thing, because a lot of people seem to have a problem getting in this mind-set.
When we got at the club, there were only a couple of people. I tried using this to my advantage. I walked up to most people and shook their hand and asked if they were having a good time and then just walked off. Some people were friendly, others responded quite surprised, but I never really got blown off. I guess no one blew me off was because I did this to everyone and wasn't really hitting on anyone.
At one point I opened a group with 2 girls and 2 guys. I introduced myself to the guys first and asked if they were having a good time. They responded really well. I held eye-contact with them, trying to show confidence and making sure their presence did not scare me and they really responded well to that, which made me feel quite good! I moved to the girls second and they were really friendly(probably because they knew I didn't move in to hit on them but to just have a good time!). I gave them an opinion opener I made up myself which I thought was good. I basically asked the group, "What do you guys think about tattoos? Because earlier this girl came up to me and started a conversation, but her entire arm was covered in tattoos and I wasn't really sure what to make of it." It worked alright, they discussed it for a moment. One of the girls said, "I can be hot on guys, but not on girls," and everyone seemed to agree. The girl that said this was actually my target so I decided to reward her. I noticed her freckles and complimented her on it, telling her she had the cutest freckles ever. She got kind of shy and said she hated them. Then I used Cajun's "You're such a cutey, I'm going to adopt you as my little sister," and gave her a very warm hug. I was feeling great. She laughed and hugged me back quite intensely. "You know what?" I said, "I want your number." I said it in a way that requires a lot of confidence, but I just didn't get it out with 0% nervouseness and I felt that straight away. "Only if you buy me a drink first," she said. I tried to recover by pushing her away from me and saying, "Wow, that's not my style." It kind of worked because she changed subjects and asked me if I could help her pick the best drink on the menu. I used this to my advantage and told her about Vodka-Redbull and grabbed her by the hand. I took her with me(away from the group) to a table where I actually had my vodka-redbull glass. I gave her a sip and she liked it. I kind of ran out of things to say and so she went back to her friends. I didn't number of kiss close but when she and her friends decided to leave she did go to me specifically to tell me this and gave me a hug.
As the night proceeded I somehow got really confident. I'm usually quite hestitant when it comes up to walking up to women because I usually just stand there, fantasizing and romantisizing about the prettiest girls. But opening went quite smoothly! For ONE reason only: I approached EVERYONE in the club. This sounds like a scary thing to do, but it is actually the best way to get over my AA. I approached more dudes than girls and throughout the entire night I felt amazing. I even had dudes walk up to me and say, "Hey, what was your name again?" and when I told them my name they'd shake my hand and tell me to have a good night. I felt really loved and was really enjoying myself!
I approached a two set of girls. I opened in Dutch and they told me in English they didn't understand me, so I had to switch to English quickly. One of the girls was exactly my type; long black hair, nose piercing, a bit of an emo-look. She was probably one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen. To be honest, I fell in love straight away. She was absolutely stunning to me, absolutely my type. Her friend was pretty chubby and also had a nose piercing, she wasn't really my thing. I could see the friend was more engaged than the pretty one and so I tried a comment saying, "You look like the friendly one," pointing to the friend, "and you look like the arrogant one," pointing to the pretty one. It actually worked, to my surprise. The friend smiled like she was flattered and the pretty one laughed and looked at me with this playful OMG face, while laughing at the same time. Throughout the entire opener she was just uninterested and looking away and now I suddenly had her full attention. Because of my crush I went overboard, though and totally screwed up. I asked her for her name which was Emily(pretty name ^^) and straight away asked for her number. She told me she was seeing a guy for two years now but gave her number anyway. She walked away straight away and took her friend with her. When I called her the day after a guy picked up the phone, so yeah, that was emberassing.
I opened another two-set the same way I opened the first set and used the same way to escalate with the target, using the 'adopting you as my little sister' routine. She seemed into me and really hung unto to me. I noticed her friend wasn't to into me so I just number closed her and left. I did hug her and gave her a few kisses on the cheek when I left, she kissed me back which was good ^^. Later on the place was packed and everyone was nice to me as I opened almost everyone. I couldn't find any interesting girls anymore and I got kind of tired so I went back to the third girl. She and her friend were talking to two dudes. Normally I would never do this but I was so confident suddenly that I walked up to them and introduced myself to the guys and then moved to my target and said "am I being rude?" and kind of laughed mockingly. She smiled and said, "not at all." Funny thing was, the guys just walked off, I totally blew them off. That was a big wtf moment for me! Normally I'm that guy getting blown off. I talked with her for a bit, but her friend dragged her away and they just started dancing in front of me, looking the opposite direction. As a dude, you feel that sort of stuff when you put yourself out there. I decided the night was over and me and my friend went home.
Conclusion
I don't think any of those girls were really into me when I left. The third girl looked like she was attracted to me, but I think I just had to leave it for what it was and text or call her the next day, but I stupidly went back to her. In overall, I am satisfied, though. Normally(if I even have the guts to approach) I just stand behind a girl trying to physically escalate to a kiss-close. This time I felt like I owned the place and I was happy with the interactions with the girls(for now). Of course I want to achieve so much more, but just the fact that I opened them without ANY AA really gave me goosebumps. As read above, I got shot down twice, but it didn't really hurt my ego that much. I was only bothered with the 2nd girl, because she was really gorgeous, but hey, at least I approached her. I remember how often I've seen a girl that looked like my type but instead I just end up standing there all night, hoping she'd approach me.
Some sticking points are that I show interest to early. I think I get physical to quickly too. I'm a very touchy guy, I tend to hug and kiss quite quickly, this probably puts them off if they don't know me yet. I've read a lot of books on stuff like this and this is the first time I actually went out to try it and that actually showed me that I learned more. I mean, the "You look like the friendly one and you look like the arrogant one," line really worked, just to see what it did with that girl really gives me goosebumps. So yeah, I'm excited! ^^
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