Subject: Field Report - First Sarge
Author: Le’ Ttuce’

I attempted my first sarge tonight. Went to an uppity class restaurant/bar with my brothers and their gf’s. The place was pretty empty and there were no HB’s passed a 7. I did fail at the 3 second rule of Mystery’s, but fortunately I don’t let me fears get the best of me. Eventually I decided to open a 4 set with a HB7 in it. They were sitting at a rectangular table with 2 on each side. One side had a guy and a girl opposite of me and on the same side of me were two girls plus my target who was on the other side of the girl to my immediate right. I opened the set with saying that they look like a good group to ask for help. I tell them that I’m having a argument with my friends and have to get back to them in a minute, but I wanted their opinions and go with the “breaking up with a girlfriend thru text” routine. They ate it up and the guy who I thought was the AMOG of the group was definitely not. The girls got all into it, including my target. They blah blah blah their opinions, and for good measure I make sure I involve the guy one more time just to disable what’s left of him. I neg the target after she inputs her opinion by saying, oh she must’ve been broken up by text before. I then proceed to move to the right of my target locking out the guy and the girl that was to my immediate right. I now engaged my target and her cousin. I continued the conversation and without hesitation focused on the cousin and not the target. The cousin tells me that they’re hanging out because the target went away to college and hasn’t hung out with her for a while. I use that as a neg and say “oh, you’re one of those, too cool to hang out with folks…” (with a smile). The cousin nods and I say, that my brother is the same way. We blah blah blah some more and I add in that I am always the one that goes to hang out with my brother because that’s how I roll. (trying to DHV). During this time, the target is smiling and seemingly engaged and kino from her occurs with her touching my shoulder and arm three times. I kino her after making a comment that she’s a good person by hanging out with her cousin and I touch her shoulder. I decide to try and number close and say to her, that I’m going to go back to my group and that I’d like to continue our conversation and asked how we could do that. She replied with a shoulder shrug and that maybe she’ll see me around later. I smiled and then turned and walked back to my group. I didn’t see her again because as we were leaving they were all in the bathroom or something… I take this as a fail, since I didn’t close at all, but I partially think it’s a win, just because my biggest sticking point before today was the approach and open. So we’ll see how it goes next time.

I didn't number close. any advice or signs of where i might've went wrong?

you went wrong by not asking her for her number.
simple as that.
I think she would have given it to you.
Sometimes a girl wont offer it, so just ask.
its not that big of a deal.