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I think I'd begin with the usual small talk just to get the feel of each other, but that's just me. What have you tried so far?
Cliff note version:
Well, it was her first day so there was some confusion about orders. I asked what she recommended,
busted her balls about not remembering all the flavors of wings. Ordered. She came back to the table a few times and when she got close to me,
I gave the line "You again? You must really love us". Sarcastic reply from her. I gave a sarcastic reply back. When she came back to get the bills, I said
"is that your family over there or do you just steal food from peoples tables?" she was eating fries off their plate in a table directly in front of me. It was her family, she moved back from London, asked her why, she said school reasons, asked what she did and then cold-read about her personality based off her reply
then said, "So when Global Warming is solved, I can thank the waitress without a name tag at the perfect pour?" and
she just laughed and said yep, my name is supposed to be on the receipts but thats not my name. I said I wasn't going to guess. She never gave her name to me, assumed that was an IOD and that was that for the night.[/quote]
Your approach seems to be trying to get strong reactions from her through guesses, and then cold-read her to get even more reactions with that. You seem to have succeeded in that sense, but what were you expecting in the end? Strong first impressions are good, they can make her see you as funny/smart/cocky and it's a wonderful thing if you can keep it up, but they can't be all there is to it. You could have tried to build rapport too, or to mollify her when you think you've pushed her too far from where you want her to be. You want to have her in a stable state of mind, not confused or apprehensive or annoyed, so roots can begin to grow. It's perfectly normal for her to decide not to share her name with you since there didn't seem to be much to look forward to development-wise.[/quote]
That was the issue I was having while being there.. How do I get from rapport building in the few moments that she's there after having shown her I'm fun/cocky/interesting to creating a bridge, avenue or what have you to get her to want to give me her name/number and continue this outside of her workplace.