Great thread and tips.
Couldn't agree more, and in all aspects of life. Some people fuel on resentment and never change. It's so hard to weed those out, too, because so much of it is done behind your back or under the radar. It's so hard to negate that maybe the best thing is to just accept it. These days, I'll "move and circle back" when the CBers come, or just work another option. Male ego is what makes us need to stand and "win." There is no win, just time waste for all, so much that it's better to just shift to something else.
OTOH, I have also learned over the years that people aren't paying nearly as much attention to us as we think they are, and even if they are, we rarely get loaded into long term memory what with all the messages blared at us/them from every angle. Some things that were very embarrassing or shameful in our memories, no one knows about. I can't count the people who come up to me and say, "damn, remember that weekend we went to that show and then did blablabla for 20 hours straight?" and I have no idea what they are talking about. Most of those aren't really druggy or boozy either, just forgotten. Many of the things we think are important "to everyone" involved were only important to us in retrospect, which is fine.
A great book I highly recommend to everyone here is "The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us." It contains lessons for seduction and life generally. Anyone who finds the topic interesting can then go on into heuristics generally, Kahneman and Tversky's Nobel work, and Gerd Gigerenzer's books. They explore lots of the real science behind things like NLP and attraction without being at all focused on it, but the relevance will become instantly clear to anyone who does seduction. In fact, knowledge of heuristics and how they work is a great life and seduction tool generally, have been for me.
Meeting women in stores, be very slow and purposeful. Hang out and look at the same damn vegetables for 10 minutes, don't scoot or zip around. Women who find you interesting and are there to meet will "end up" in the same area and will also be moving slowly. I like the produce and fruit areas because the higher quality women are in those areas. Make no mistake, lots of them are there to meet and shop, not just shop. Don't buy the "what? who? why are you talking to me?" BS. Just smile knowingly and let them know you see through their ruse. Produce is a great ice breaker too, it's legit to just up and ask "what do you think of these?" about pretty much any fruit or veg. "They have these at Xway for the same price, wonder if they're better?"
And don't laugh, but liquor stores are excellent places to meet women, especially those franchise wine stores with events on early weekend evenings. Magnet.