To make it short and sweet for y'all: My cold approaches have gotten better with time, but my text game could use some tuning. So here's a text of a girl I met at a store I was in. My opener was: do you think the men's clothes look like drug dealer clothes?

Me: One of the dudes that was in Foreign Exchange was a crack dealer..
Her: How do you know?
Me: He's from Queens (No offense to any of you that are from Queens )
Her: Did you have a conversation with him or what?
Me: That too, plus he was very edgy. How'd the shopping go?
Her: Still going but I bought cute pants from foreign exchange! How's your shopping going?
Me: Cool, send me a pic. I bet you'll look cute in them
Her: Follow me on instagram & you'll see this weekend hahaha
Me: Lol what if I don't have an instagram?
Her: Sucks to suck then
Me: Ok, you're totally jealous
Her: lol of what?
Me: Obviously that I can have deep conversations with crack deals and you can't
Her: I have no interest in having deep convesations with drug deals so you are wrong my friend
Me: It was a joke?
Her: I know haha!
Her: I wasn't trying to sound serious oops
Me: lol its cool
Her: What did you end up buying?
Me: I actually got a nice pair of shorts. I just hope they're not too short lol
Her: Oh nice nice
Me: I'm gonna be in town center later tonight. You should come and we can get a fro yo or something
Her: Ahhh I can't, going to dinner with my family sorrrry have fun!
Me: You too!
Her: Thanks!

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Most things we're afraid of are simply challenges, so smile because you'll become stronger from it.

Dude don't make it more complicated than it needs to be. Cut out most of the fluff. Send her one rext askin "how's it going" then after she replies with "fine" or what ever say "Hang out with me one ay this week" or something like that. Then just sort out logistics and get the day 2 organized. Remember the only reason for the number is to organize when you're gonna see her again. Don't become her texting buddy.

Hope this helps.

Sly-Mike