Long story short, I used to be a frequent member here and then got a girlfriend. Dated her for 3.5 years, about a month ago she said she needed time to figure things out and wanted a break. Since I don't do breaks, we broke up. During that 3.5 years, I've forgotten most of what I learned. I realize one month is not enough time to fully get over her, and my confidence is still a little shot from everything.

The past couple weekends I have been going out to the bars on Friday and Saturday nights. My friends and I are pretty good looking, so we tend to get the girls that hover around us and wait for us to open. I will focus on last night, since that is fresh in my memory. This happened at least 6 or 7 times, where they would stand over by us and keep glancing over. They were all fairly good looking girls, but my confidence is not what it used to be and I failed to open on almost all of them. My buddy kept psyching himself out and did didn't really talk to them either. He was on tilt pretty much the whole night because a couple of girls who he used to talk to, that didn't even know each other, were there and I guess things didn't end well with them. He kept obsessing over them, nothing I said helped.

The girls we did talk to, nothing really happened. One girl that my buddy was interested in, after staring at us for a couple minutes, ended up plopping her purse down on the table we were at and searched her purse for a good minute. I asked if she was looking for something, she pulls out a tampon and her and her friend start laughing. Then she throws it back in and magically find the chapstick right away, and my buddy says, "I can see how you mixed them up, they are very similar." They laugh and stand there for another minute, and then they head out. Another set we were sitting near had to open us before we talked, and that was brief as well. Then another set, one girl that I had been eying for a while, comes over and stands next to us for a while. Finally one tries to get my buddy to take a picture, and her friend (the one I kept glancing at) gets really close to me and tells him don't do it. I kept telling my buddy not to take it as well, and he goes at does it anyways. One of the girls said it was someone's birthday, so I asked the girl who's birthday is was. She then said something about they were celebrating college or something, and I just left it at that.

Not sure why I can't keep the conversations going, and why I can't open myself. Like I said before, my confidence is still lacking after the breakup, and I'm hoping to work on that... It was also shocking to me how many chances I had, and how many I blew. I don't want to continue that, so I'm looking for some help on how to get out of this slump and get my game back.

yea, and just a heads up the more fun she sees you having now that shes out of the picture, the more shes gonna want you back and prolly ask the "do you miss me" question.
when it comes to openers and everything man, i would keep a note card in your back pocket with a few written on there. some people with AA usually have their mind go blank when they see a HB

Forget the notecard, put evernote on your phone and put some material in there. You can always glance at your phone like you're checking a text, or if you want to be discreet go in the bathroom and stand in the stall and read over it a few times then go back out.

But easiest is just look at the phone, read over the routine, THEN look up and do the 3-second rule.