I was laying in bed thinking of a new routine to try and I came up with this little gem. First thing is first, I have not field tested this yet so I am not 100% positive on how it will play out but I have a good idea. Next, might need to have a dog if you plan on taking this further than just a day 2.
So you're in the grocery store and you see a HB worth approaching. Ask her "Excuse me ma'am" a little kino on the arm to get her attention. "I can never find what I'm looking for in grocery stores. Do you know if this store sells dog food?" Most of them do but make sure that the one your in does or else this does not work. She will most likely respond with "yea, it's on the 10 aisle" or whatever aisle it may be on. Next you start to walk in that direction but stop as if you realized you have another important question and ask " OOH! one more thing. Do you think you can help me pick out a particular brand... you see last night I was driving home and there was this dog in the middle of the road, I almost hit it on accident! I pulled over and got the dog to come to me to see if it had a tag or something but it didn't have a collar or anything so I took it to the vet to make sure it was ok. The vet said that she was healthy as could be. So I decided to take the dog home until I could find out who she belonged to but once I got her home I realized I didn't have anything for a dog and I know almost nothing about how to take care of one. I love dogs I just have never had one of my own." its kind of long but it's about a dog so the target will most likely listen. I predict she will respond in one of 3 ways. Either she will know a lot about dogs in which case you can neg her with something like "Wow you sure know a lot about dogs, you must have a zoo at home!" or she will know nothing about dogs in which case you can neg her and say "well you sure were a lot of help." in a sarcastic voice otherwise she will probably get really offended. and the third way is she will say something like "oh this is the kind I feed to my dogs." you can respond to this with random banter about what kind of dogs she has at home to build up a little rapport. after one of those three scenarios plays out put a time constraint and say something like "well I really gotta get going, I don't have a kennel at home for the dog at home so she is probably just running around chewing up stuff but I really appreciate your help, you seem really nice! I would like to continue this conversation some other time." At this hopefully she will cough up her number and you go off on your way.
Wait the appropriate amount of time (I like 3 days) and give her a call and say something like "thanks for your help with the dog food dilemma!" so she remembers the conversation and then fallow normal protocol for phone game. You can also give a status update on the dog, if you don't have a dog say you found the owners, I however, like saying something about how the dog is doing awesome and it has really warmed up to you. This path opens up the possibility of a day 2 where she can meet the dog, however, you must have a dog for that to work.
The great thing about this is it has some great spikes in it. Again I want to reiterate I have not yet field tested it. Any suggestions on how to improve this would be appreciated!
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