Hello,

Firstly, a quick introduction so you guys can build some sort of mental picture of me.

I am a 26 year old professional, educated to a Masters degree. I am cocky funny and can switch the nice jokes on as easily as the crude ones. I am Chinese, though I was born and raised in England. I dress well and consider myself good looking. Since joining the company 16 months ago, I split up with my girlfriend of 4 years (this was 5 months ago) and it SUCKED! I loved this girl, was always too nice to her and without doubt, I suffered from 'one-itis'. I am definitely over her now, I don't think about her anymore and do not have the urge to contact her again. Since we split, I have not fallen for any girl until...

My housemate (she's female) asked a girl friend to come round for dinner a couple of weeks ago. When we were on the bus together I did not think this girl was special in any way there was no attraction, although she did laugh at my jokes about my house mate. It wasn't until we started chatting as a group that I realised how beautiful this chick was, inside and out. She had energy, charisma, personality, the looks, EVERYTHING. How the heck did I not recognise this girl on the bus before?! I had to win her over!! One thing though... She is a management consultant at my company and only has a month left on her contract before she heads back to London (about 1 hour drive away).

I suggested to my housemate that we should have a board games night this week and that she should invite this girl again. That night was tonight! In preparation, I read the Game and been on YouTube to get some PUA tips. I admit, I am by no means an expert but I gave some of the theory a test. So this is what happened...

The England match was on tonight and was running in the background whilst we played games. I thought I could use the TV and talk more to my other housemates to make sure I wasn't giving her my maximum attention. I threw some playful NEGS whenever I could (more playful mickey taking) and she laughed at times. She laughed at some of my jokes when I tease the other house mates and some of my jokes in general. At the end of the night I offered to give her a lift back to her hotel, I said I needed to go to Tesco anyway (which is next door) so I might as well drop her off. When we got in the car I threw in a proper NEG. "Is your hair naturally red?" She looked at me with a bit of a strange look and told me some people say that, her mum is a red head so that may be why. On the 5 minute drive to her hotel I tried to build rapport. I asked her about her job and I told her about mine. I tried to add value by telling her I just closed a deal worth £800k and she was genuinely impressed. The hotel approached and we didn't finish our conversation (this was intentional). I said it's a shame we haven't been able to finish the conversation but I'd definitely would like to hear more about her role. "Yeah, we should meet up for fish and chips or coffee" (We had talked about fish and chips in general earlier tonight). This should of been the time I number-closed BUT I didn't!!!! "As I am not usually in on a Friday we can't do the fish & chips but let's go for a Starbucks?", I said. "Starbucks?" (We have Costa Coffees at work not Starbucks, I assumed she wanted to go for a coffee outside of work!). "So are you on Instant Messenger at work?", I said. "Yeah, my name is 'First name... Surname", she replied. "Great, we'll have to catch up!" I said. "Thanks for the lift, bye".

So, that was my first ever attempt with Game theory. Did I do it right and by getting her surname (which means I now have the details to email or IM her at work) did I successfully close? I did bottle it when it came to asking for her number but bear in mind I am not feeling well at all at the moment and I am no expert at this yet. I am also fighting my nice guy side and didn't want to come across cheesy etc. Also, if she said no it would be awkward on the bus for the next month!

Would love to hear your opinions, and obviously how to fine tune and the next steps I should take.

Cheers,

NG