I never knew how much potential public transport had, the pickings are gold! I catch the bus every day to work and there's always a few 9's and 10's. If you think about it, you walk on to a packed bus make eye contact with every candidate until someone holds it and maybe cracks a smile there's your opening to engage her, then just sit or stand next to them for the 20minute ride with some playful conversation, the fruit is their for the picking if you have the right tools ...
Besides the usual innocent conversation that I usually engage in, I just find it hard to get a number or organise a date knowing that the whole bus is listening to the conversation....
So PUA's I need you to recommended the best tools: openers and number closes would be greatly appreciated, I'm sure this topic will benefit many besides myself...
Cheers in advance !

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Awesomeee

Very good question - I posted something similar regarding doing approaches on the plane.

Public transport does have rich pickings..

When im in a conversation i try to use following: so do you go out a lot?'' yes/no/sometimes'' if she says ''no' you have to talk her in to going out with you, all the same anyway;) then ask her with who she goes out.. ( by then you know if she has a boyfriend or not) then the last but most important question! Just be casual and say: if your nearby soon we could go out and have a drink or something.. ask it like its a by the way question,followed immidiatly by'' you can text me if you like.. ''if she is interested she says something like ''but I don't have your number?'' give her your number it's better then asking her's:P

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Indeed a good question. I've been thinking about this myself lately.

My problem is having too many bored people around who will definitely listen to me trying to pick up this girl. (Yeah, an Inner Game issue of mine I'm still working on)

So I figured that the best way would be to turn the entire bus into my spectators and even my fans! That way the HB would have harder time to reject me cos' most of the ppl in the bus like me!

Not really sure still how to make this "artificially", but I did have several occasions when it has arisen from situation.

Last week an older drunk woman on the bus started hitting on me, so I started to make fun of her and even pretend to be interested! It was fun as hell, by the end 1/2 of the bus was laughing like mad, especially one HB9.5 who was sitting near by and was also drawn to the conversation at one point.

But I still didn't figure out how to "artificially" make it fun for the "spectators" right off the bat, so that they are on my side when I try to pick the girl up and ask for her number.

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What good openers do you use with complete strangers?

This Post May Resemble A short Novel But it is your New Bible Of Transportation Pickup....Read it and Your Game Will Be 100 times better because you did.

Alright Listen up and you will become a transportation MPA just apply what I say.

I live in the states and generally drive everywhere so coming to costa rica for 5 months has been a new experience......tons of people take the bus here and usually they are a few 9's or 10's on the bus.

Step 1: The most important thing will happen within 10 seconds of you getting on the bus.....it is selecting where to sit.......I scan the whole bus right when I get on and sit next to the hottest girl that is available.....if no spots next to hot girls are available either sit very close or sit in the closest spot to the front with 2 available seats and sit on the aisle.........This way if a hot girl comes in just stand up and motion like you are letting them into the window seat....or you can be passive and as soon as you make eye contact just scoot over and she will sit down........Location will determine your success on these endeavors 95 percent of the time.

Step 2. Talk to her.....over here it is super easy to open I just ask where something is and then have them explain it in detail....this can be used anywhere. Then act a little interested ask where they are coming from/going to etc... I usually have a tennis raquet or something with me and ask if they play any sports.....if they say no call them lazy in a playful way and if they say yes ask them which ones and say do you actually play or are you just trying to impress me???? play with it a little bit find out what works for you calling them a liar always works tell them they are way to short to play basketball that kind of stuff......Just Game.....I have the natural ability to just make people laugh.....don't laugh at your own jokes and keep crazy good contact.

[b]Step 3[/b]. Number close and FB close. Get your phone and say put your number in if there is a lot of IOI's if there is only a couple just say do you have FaceBook....she will say yes and take out your phone and tell her to put her email in so you can find her on there......once she does that just say, well okay I guess you can put your number in as well. This always works.....no joke 100 percent success rate....once people start saying yes it would be uncomfortable to say no....so get the FB first then just tack on the number afterwards.....Find a good reason to get it....depending on the convo it can range from so I can kick your ass in tennis to because I am kind of new around here and need a local to show me around.

Option 2 With a Wingman: My friend and I pull this shit all the time in Costa Rica but it can be used anywhere......If there are no available seets open but a really hot girl who's attention you want have your friend sit near the back and you sit near the front.....then just start talking back and forth really loud.....Start an arguement but be funny about it my friend and I started arguing about who's food was whos in the refrigerator because some girls were coming over and we both wanted to feed them the other ones food....same thing with alcohol.....everyone was laughing (We were loud and Hilarious and everyone was interested because and laughing....Sit in the front so you can make eyecontact with whoever you want when you look back at your friend....everyone will be looking at you.....one time I noticed the hb10 I wanted was laughing at our conversation and I looked directly at her and pointed back towards my friend and said "Can you believe this guy....Like I wish he could just hear himself talk for 2 seconds." She laughed again and touched her hair so I went and sat across from her when it got available acting like I was doing it to get closer to my friend so I didn't have to yell.....Talked to her found out she was going to school to be a pilot.....then I yelled back to my friend yo this girl is studying to be a pilot...she was embarressed and laughing telling me to be quiet she didn't want everyone to know etc....I was like yo this is so cute now she is getting embarresed that I told you in front of everyone....Everyone was laughing she was embarressed and she absolutely loved it.....FB Closed..Number Closed...Went on a Date 3 days ago...kiss closed and will F-close soon.

You can't have any approach anxiety on a bus...as soon as you realize that is what it is tell yourself now you have to do it or else you are going to get off that bus feeling like a loser.

-Guess Again

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Nice thread

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1) Those who doesn't know whats happening
2) Those who watch what happens
3) Those who make it happen

I live in an expensive neighbourhood, and the buses that take me to work go through the local World Trade Center, right next to a huge shopping mall. I get to see a lot of HB8's and HB9's. There is a non-written code that people should use two seats as far as possible. That is specially true with women. If you are seating next to somebody and a row empties in front of you, the person next to the aisle is supposed to move to that empty row. I hate doing that, because I feel it says to the other persona "you make me feel uncomfortable". When I sit next to a guy it is ok and we might keep that way until destination, but women send all kind of freak signals, looking at you as you were some creepy stalker.

Now, I plan to use that as an opener. My idea is to sit next to a hot girl, in the aisle, and if a row empties I will ask her if she prefers that I move to that empty spot and leave her alone. I bet she will reply with a no, just for pure politeness. That would give me the chance to talk about the non-written code and how I think it is offensive and we can go into a conversation from there.

My only problem with this opener is that the driver and the guard (the guy selling tickets) would listen to that opener a few times and maybe could expose my game with a simple joke. Still, I could take a few random trips in the weekend to play the game.

Guess, that guide is great.

Great post! I've always thought of talking to women in public transit as creepy...even though I know that's the wrong frame of mind. I know that if I think it's creepy it'll come off that way too. I'm assuming indirect is the way to go here? Do you think the old "how do i get to such and such".... "actually I know how to get there I just wanted to talk to you" is too forward for the bus/metro?

Now that I'm posting this I want to try it out. If she responds positively you could make a game out of talking about and then doing things considered taboo on the train.... thoughts?

Gill, that "how to get there" routine worked for me once, by accident. I actually didn't know how to get to the pub where my friends and I had to read poetry. The girl was a HB9, short, blonde, blue eyes. We started talking about this pub, which was actually a club, and then about the show I was to present.

I did a number close, but never cared to call again. Don't ask me why, I don't remember.

Thanks for the insight guys plenty of ideas to use on my way to work..
Another thing I think I'll add is that if there are empty seats and you sit next to the HB, this is a very direct message of your intentions, like not empty empty but there are a few seats available.. But a sure fire way to know that a girl is interested is in fact if the tables are turned and you're sitting with a spare spot next to you and out of all the other spare spots HB sits next to you. You could easily say when she sits down "Long day?' if she sits down with some gasp or something you can use that as a subtle neg.

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Awesomeee

Hey man,

First off, nice Job on the HB10 and I really like your post, it gave me some good ideas. But about your first option, what do you do when the bus is really quiete? Do you still sit down next to her even though there's all these free seats? It will look kind of weird so I would think that if you would do THAT, you would have to immediately open with something good.

What do you think?

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