I've decided to force myself to approach women more.

I need to overcome my fear of rejection by seeking out as much rejection as I can, until I'm calloused over.

I haven't really developed a good routine or picked a method that works best for me yet, so I'm not taking it too seriously so far, just trying to improve my ability to socialize a little, and over come my fear of rejection.

To that end, I took a stroll through wal-mart today looking for some women to talk to.

I saw a gorgeous HB8Redhead who worked at the store, and I was thinking about asking for her opinion on which body spray smells the best. Problem was she was in a rush somewhere and I didn't act immediately the moment I saw her. She disappeared and I must have spent 20 minutes roaming the store looking for her

I saw a slightly older (mid-30s) HB7 in the toy department looking for toys. I tried to chat her up:

"Shopping for a three year old is hard. What do you think this thing is supposed to be?"

*points at some nano-robot-bug toy, the question was sincere, I truly had no idea what that thing was*

"Umm... I don't know. Some kind of nano-bug toy for computers. I think."

A few more sentences about toys were spoken, but I forget exactly what else was said but I felt like I pulled off a successful opener. She was polite to me but not forthcoming.

As I stood there trying to thing of a direction to take the conversation she walked away. lol.

Anyway, I was thinking of doing this with the redhead (or some other girl, or a few):

"Hi, I hope this isn't too random, but I was just noticing how very attractive you are. In the unlikely event that you don't have a boyfriend I think I'd like to get to know you. Would you like to get some coffee or something sometime?"

I actually used this line with success (at getting a foot in the door, I couldn't sustain the relationship long but I got a foot in the door goddamnit!) quite some time ago with an HB8 long before I decided to start putting effort into developing a methodology for picking up women.

I'm guessing the line would suffer because it lacks a good neg. Any ideas how I would go about incorporating a good "neg" in there?

I saw a hot chick at work today and thought about negging her, but didn't want to risk losing my job. But if I had, does this sound like a good neg to you guys?

*Points to oddly colored retro looking floral design purse*
"Hey I like your grandma-retro purse."