So last week I was doing some Christmas shopping and I spoke to a few girls who worked in the shops. They were all hot. I am very shy and find it hard speaking to people I don't know so this was a big step to me.

Approach 1: Book store
Go up to hot brunette girl who works there, she is on the floor putting some books away.
Me: excuse me, do you sell 3D jigsaws here?
Her: do you mean the ones you build like of big ben and stuff?
Me: yea that's the ones
Her: No we don't sell those sorry. I am not sure where you could get those.
Me: oh ok
Her: You could try argos, they might have them?
Me: Yea ok, thanks for your help any way.


Approach 2: marks + spencers store
I go up to cute blonde girl who works there...
Me: excuse me, do you know where the slippers are? ...for women?
Her: um ye, I'll show you. There's not many left though
Me: oh, has it been busy?
Her: ye, really busy. There's still some but not as many as before
Me: oh ok
So she shows me where they are and I say thanks and she goes away.


Approach 3: Supermarket
So I go into this supermarket most days and I always see this girl there. I am pretty sure she likes me, she's always looking at me. And I like her too but I have never spoke to her before. So a few nights ago I thought fuckit, I need to do this. I went in the shop and saw her working. I finally plucked up the courage to speak to her after wandering about aimlessly for 10 minutes.
Me: Do you sell wrapping paper here?
Then she just like asked me what kind I was looking for and stuff. And she walked me right across the store to where it was. But by this time my face was red and I was so flustered and a nervous wreck I couldn't come out with anything else. So I just thanked her for her help and that was that. I hope to speak to her again and get her phone number maybe if I have the guts. I'm pretty sure she likes me, I just have no balls.


Approach 4: Sports Shop
The first 3 approaches were on the same day. This one is a couple of days later.
I spot a cute short haired brunette working there.
Me: excuse me, do you sell sweat bands here?
Her: umm like what kind?
Me: err like a band for rubbing off sweat?
Her: ye i think they are over here
Me: so what time does this place open till?
Her: It closes at 9 tonight
then she pointed to the sweat bands and walked off


I know this is pretty basic stuff but I found all that really hard to do. Next time I hope to find a way to carry the conversation on a bit more. If you could give me some tips on how to do this it would be great. Cheers

Listen to yourself. You did something that you thought was really hard. Congrats.
Out of those approaches, only the 3rd girl was into you. So next time you go in there take it further.

Keep chatting with these hired guns man . They get paid to pretend to like us hahahaha.

As N2G said, what's important is how hard you found it. The trick is to keep pushing yourself out of your comfort zone by this same amount. I was where you were a while back, but now I force myself to try and get into a bit of banter eg:
"What do you mean you don't do refunds"
"You'll have to speak to someone more senior"

This is where the old me would have said "OK" and wandered off. Now I'd keep it going with something like:

"Basically, you're saying that they don't trust you to do refunds?"
"Yeah"
"To be fair to them, I wouldn't trust you to do refunds either!" (said with a smile)

Well done BanSherman! At least you started, something which 95% of the men on this earth don't have the guts to do!

Shop assistants are a good place to start, next time try asking girls who are shopping. Even just ask them the time, comment on their watch/phone/chronological positioning device and say goodbye.

If it's an analogue watch:
"Hey, I heard something strange yesterday. Cover your watch with your hand. On average, we look at our watch about every 20 minutes. You look like you've owned that watch for a while right. You've probably looked at it thousands of times. The crazy thing is though, most people couldn't tell if their watch has numbers, roman numerals or dashes. What does yours have?"
Her reply - she'll not be sure at the very least
"So ok, have a look."
She looks
"Now cover it up again. So you've just had a good look right? So you'll be able to tell me for certain if it's got a second hand?"
Her: "er...."
If you hadn't already asked the time, there's a good chance that she also wouldn't know the time now, even though she just looked at her watch.

Your bail out option if she gets it all right without hesitation; "Clearly this bloke had no idea what he was talking about. Actually, come to think of it, I hear he was so drunk that he started an argument with a postbox after I left him"

(Stealing this idea utterly from Derren Brown)

Thanks for the replies guys. I need to push it a bit further next time to get some more conversation going and break out of my comfort zone even further.

I thought of a few things I could say to the supermarket girl next time i see her (re:approach 3). Next time I see her I could say something like: "Are you ever not working!? You're working every time I come in here haha" Then just ask how shes doing etc?