I'm still barely breaking into A2, so I'm often concerned with beating away any anxiety and saying something super duper clever and original before I chicken out of approaching a woman.

But seriously, why are we spending SO MUCH TIME worrying about openers? It's just an opener. You Open, you Neg, and you FTC in whatever order you want to and then you move on. You can literally just say "Hi" or something not too far off.

We put so much thought into these openers that we're going to depend on their content too much. You don't need to drag out the topic of the opener for very long anyhow. And if you're social enough in your environment and people see you interacting with other groups, they don't necessarily demand something more than a simple greeting when you make it over to them.

For you guys who are still extremely nervous approaching a woman, then you do indeed need a scripted opener, but you don't need an opener for every single contingency.

It kind of irks me to see people asking: "what's a good opener for the grocery store? What's an opener for the leg press at the gym? what's a good opener for taking a leak on a dead pigeon in Central Park at dusk?"

Guys, A1 is such a fleeting moment and when it passes by you'll find yourself floating aimlessly in A2 struggling to keep the topic of your opener alive. But all along the topic of the opener hardly even matters. What matters is your body language, tone of voice, and lack of creepiness.

good luck out there, boys.

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-Murdoc