silverfox
Don Juan
I tried a bunch of cold approaches today. The first was the best.
1) Saw an attractive woman at the train station reading a paper. Wandered over and asked her something about a football match. That was enough to start. We were going in the same direction and travelled and chatted for 20 minutes.
She was an interesting woman, a few years older than me and good company. Turned out we both know the areas where each other lives, she mentioned she lives alone. There was a window of opportunity for a number close and possibly a coffee date that day but I missed it. I should have gone for it as she was good company. Oh well, it was an improvement and I nurtured good rapport out of nothing.
2) Cute Asian girl in the self help section of a bookshop. I made a remark that by the time you read all these books you wouldn't have nay time left to put it into practice. Turns out her English wasn't too hot. Chatted for a minute or two and ejected.
3) Crossing the road with a cute brunette - she looked kinda young though and Eastern European. The traffic crossing was a bit hairy. I said, "you take your life into your hand over here." She didn't hear/understand/acknowledge.
4) Going down into the Tube (subway.) Busker playing dancehall music. There was a pretty Mediterreanean girl in front of me. It would have been killer to say "excuse me, would you like to dance." But I missed the moment and settled for "wow, I figured we'd see a dance in full swing or something."
She smiled, not sure she understood. She was headig for a different platform so I didn't pursue.
5) Foreign looking girl sitting waiting for a train. I sat next to her on a bench. We observed a girl on the opposite platform lugging a massive suitcase. I said, "geez, I'm glad I don't have to lug that thing around." Not a flicker of a response from the girl on the bench. Maybe she was still bummed about the end of the cold war... Whatever.
6) Not really an approach. Waiting at a pedestrian with a young mother pushing a baby carriage. I made some remark and she laughed and we chatted a bit as we walked up.
This one was just more practice with making friendly conversation with anyone, anywhere.
Lessons learned: You can strike up a conversation and get some rapport anywhere (see 1st approach), make sure the girls you speak to understand English!
Onward.
1) Saw an attractive woman at the train station reading a paper. Wandered over and asked her something about a football match. That was enough to start. We were going in the same direction and travelled and chatted for 20 minutes.
She was an interesting woman, a few years older than me and good company. Turned out we both know the areas where each other lives, she mentioned she lives alone. There was a window of opportunity for a number close and possibly a coffee date that day but I missed it. I should have gone for it as she was good company. Oh well, it was an improvement and I nurtured good rapport out of nothing.
2) Cute Asian girl in the self help section of a bookshop. I made a remark that by the time you read all these books you wouldn't have nay time left to put it into practice. Turns out her English wasn't too hot. Chatted for a minute or two and ejected.
3) Crossing the road with a cute brunette - she looked kinda young though and Eastern European. The traffic crossing was a bit hairy. I said, "you take your life into your hand over here." She didn't hear/understand/acknowledge.
4) Going down into the Tube (subway.) Busker playing dancehall music. There was a pretty Mediterreanean girl in front of me. It would have been killer to say "excuse me, would you like to dance." But I missed the moment and settled for "wow, I figured we'd see a dance in full swing or something."
She smiled, not sure she understood. She was headig for a different platform so I didn't pursue.
5) Foreign looking girl sitting waiting for a train. I sat next to her on a bench. We observed a girl on the opposite platform lugging a massive suitcase. I said, "geez, I'm glad I don't have to lug that thing around." Not a flicker of a response from the girl on the bench. Maybe she was still bummed about the end of the cold war... Whatever.
6) Not really an approach. Waiting at a pedestrian with a young mother pushing a baby carriage. I made some remark and she laughed and we chatted a bit as we walked up.
This one was just more practice with making friendly conversation with anyone, anywhere.
Lessons learned: You can strike up a conversation and get some rapport anywhere (see 1st approach), make sure the girls you speak to understand English!
Onward.
