In the town I grew up in I liked to go to Gibson's [a store that sold alcohol, candy, ice cream cones, new papers, cigarettes, snacks, etc..] get myself a scoop of ice cream and sit at one of the tables in front of the store eating ice cream. Sometimes I was with friends I'd been skateboaring around town with, sometimes I was alone. Sometimes all the tables were full, sometimes they were empty. Sometimes I grabbed the paper, some coffee and a pack of smokes.

So... in the event the tables were occupied I'd ask a group if I could sit with them and I've never once heard a no. I'd sit down and enjoy whatever I was enjoying at the time and cute girls would walk past [this was Oberlin, Ohio. It's a college town]. Even during the summer when college was out [though significantly less girls when there was no school going on].

Here's a few examples of people I've met and the "openers" I used to meet them.
A. I'm out with a group of friends skateboarding and we stopped for ice cream and cigarettes and sat down and just hung out telling jokes and stories and talking when a girl walks buy with a smile on her face and a ninja turtles shirt. I simply said "I like your shirt." She thanked me and she had an art portfolio bag so I asked if I could see some of her artwork and she started showing us some and sat down with us and we started telling jokes and having fun and I got her number and made a new friend.

Plain and simple.

B. I was there by myself and there was a mixed table full of girls and guys and I didn't know any of them but wanted to sit and eat my ice cream and relax. I asked if I could sit with them and they said sure. We're sitting down telling jokes and laughing and stories and talking to the people who walked past. I exchanged Myspace [yes... this was a few years back] accounts with all of them and we'd hung out many many times afterwards. I made out with one of the girls a few weeks later.

Pretty simple, nothing elaborate.


Then there's the in passing "openers"
The bus: Many times while I'm on the bus I'll see a cute girl and she's listening to music. I just ask what she's listening to and start chatting with her from there. Sometimes she's got a video game with her, or sometime like a sketchbook, etc.. Simply asking about it or commenting on things really is enough to start a convo. Just relax and talk to her like you would talk to your friends.

I "number closed" many girls from the bus by just saying things like "I like your eye shadow, it's different.", "What game are you playing?", or even "Hi, I'm Nick." followed by conversation [usually pertaining to the initial opening line] afterwards.

The store: While in a record shop I saw a girl with a sketchbook and asked what she was drawing and from there ended up talking and telling jokes. Later as I was leaving I said "Hey, I'm going to the bar next door you wanna tag along?" and she followed me there and I got her facebook while I was there and hung out with her again.

Again, nothing overly elaborate or fancy to start a conversation with someone.

Telling jokes while waiting in line based on observation and sarcasm seems to work well too.


Point is: Just talk to a girl and don't be nervous, negative, etc..


e.g. I was in a bar and saw two cute girls walk in so I walk over to them and say "You mind if I sit here?" they said it was okay and we talked and joked and I wasn't hitting on them as much as trying to get to know them and they both said i was pretty cool and added me on facebook. Nothing fancy going on there.



In 1999 I was in highschool and went with a bunch of my cousin's to New york for new years. Our older cousin took us there. There were these 3 smokin' hot girls our age at our older cousin's girlfriend's house. Then there was Paul, Isaac, Ben [my brother], Marcus, Caleb, Dave, and Me. Six guys. Ben consistenly made jokes at my expense, Marcus did a lot of times too while telling a lot of DHV stories [some very transparent, other's not so much], Caleb just made fun of everyone, Isaac occasionally made fun of us and told jokes but mostly just chatted with the girls, Paul kept trying to figure out how to strategically impress the girls but wasn't fake about it, and I was annoyed with being picked on and spent most of my time talking to Paul and Dave [who felt the girls were too young for him] who weren't picking on me and was just nice to the girls but didn't go out of my way to act any special kind of way.

All the girls seemed to be flirting with me [according to the rest of the guys] unknown to me. They said they liked that I was so sweet and nice.

Again. Nothing fancy going on there. Did nothing to go out of my way.


Lines I've said that got me into a conversation where I ended up either getting a number/contact info and/or having sex at some point.
"You're cute so I figured I'm come get to know you." [in a bar]
"Hi, I'm Nick." [in a bar, serial abuse of that one that day. If she snubbed me she's too much of a stuck up bitch and there's other girls to talk to so I talk to someone else and say the same thing. If the convo get's boring or filled with red flags I politely exclude myself and talk to another girl. That night I got 13 numbers, 2 facebooks. Of the 15 girls I slept with 4 of them in the course of the next 4 months and had an opportunity to sleep 3 others].

Again, nothing fancy.

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