Day 1:
Today i met up with Ken785 to go out sarging for the first time. We went downtown to the Westfeild shopping center in San Francisco on Market Street. The mall was huge and overall for our first day out this was a good start. Today we were mostly focusing on approaching anybody.
We started out splitting up and entering the mall to just say hi to 5 random strangers in 12 minutes i think. I went in and was able to approach 3. Two were some old people in a super market and one was actually a hb who happened to sort of bump into me.
The main issue I had was that when i was in enough distance to say hi to people they wouldn't give me eye contact. That girl that i almost bumped into gave it to me at the right moment. I feel like I could have gotten a few more hi's in if i had more eye contact from people.
After the hi exercise we met up and watched each other approach. We heard some drums on the street because there was a gay parade or a prop 8 demonstration (we never found out which). I approached a guy and a girl and asked them if they knew what the drums were about and they told me they didn't. Kind of lame so i ejected because i opened wrong.
After ken approached a girl carrying a prop 8 sign we decided to go down to city hall because we heard there was a protest. We thought we could open people asking them about prop 8. We got to city hall and there was no protest so we walked back to the mall.
We then did an exercise where ken chose a girl and i would have to approach her no matter what. He chose this asian girl all by herself so i went in.
Path: Hey can i ask you a question really quick?
Her(hesitant and with a heavy accent): sure
Path: I have a 4 year old cousin and i need to buy her a gift, do you know of a good place in the mall to shop for her?
Her: Um..... (4 second pause)
Path: It's cold where she is from so i was thinking maybe mitts for her hands.
Her: Maybe a hat?
Path: Yeah that would work keep her head warm
Her: You should go to H&M
Path: Oh where is that
(She gives directions)
Path: So you think they will have something for her there?
Her: Yeah (she brushes her hair and actually seems interested now)
I walk off saying goodbye. Ken thinks i should have just tried to number close that one. I think i should of too i was never gonna see her again if i failed, but whatever i didnt.
Then we went up to market street and approached people to just talk to them for 5 minutes. I talked to a guy who had a comedy club and learned that i couldnt go because i wasn't 21 (he talked to me for a while so I guess i look over 21 =D). Ken talked to a guy with a camera and we ended up being in a sony ericson in house video. So were going to see ourselves get a newspaper sped up when it comes out.
Then Ken went into the comedy club guy and i asked to different set of girls where macy's was. The only macy approach that is anything significant went like this:
Path: Hey can you tell me where macy's is?
Them: Yeah its up the street i think
(They talk amongst themselves where it was because they were from out of town)
While they are talking i get the vibe like they have been there
Path: Where you guys just there or something
Them: Yeah
Path: Why were you guys there?
Them: Weird look
Path: Well it doesn't matter thanks anyway
and i leave
After this we end the day just talking about where we want to be and we head home. Overall it was a good effort on our first day and we can only get better. I felt like i pushed my comfort zone a bit more than i am used too so it was a success.
Today i met up with Ken785 to go out sarging for the first time. We went downtown to the Westfeild shopping center in San Francisco on Market Street. The mall was huge and overall for our first day out this was a good start. Today we were mostly focusing on approaching anybody.
We started out splitting up and entering the mall to just say hi to 5 random strangers in 12 minutes i think. I went in and was able to approach 3. Two were some old people in a super market and one was actually a hb who happened to sort of bump into me.
The main issue I had was that when i was in enough distance to say hi to people they wouldn't give me eye contact. That girl that i almost bumped into gave it to me at the right moment. I feel like I could have gotten a few more hi's in if i had more eye contact from people.
After the hi exercise we met up and watched each other approach. We heard some drums on the street because there was a gay parade or a prop 8 demonstration (we never found out which). I approached a guy and a girl and asked them if they knew what the drums were about and they told me they didn't. Kind of lame so i ejected because i opened wrong.
After ken approached a girl carrying a prop 8 sign we decided to go down to city hall because we heard there was a protest. We thought we could open people asking them about prop 8. We got to city hall and there was no protest so we walked back to the mall.
We then did an exercise where ken chose a girl and i would have to approach her no matter what. He chose this asian girl all by herself so i went in.
Path: Hey can i ask you a question really quick?
Her(hesitant and with a heavy accent): sure
Path: I have a 4 year old cousin and i need to buy her a gift, do you know of a good place in the mall to shop for her?
Her: Um..... (4 second pause)
Path: It's cold where she is from so i was thinking maybe mitts for her hands.
Her: Maybe a hat?
Path: Yeah that would work keep her head warm
Her: You should go to H&M
Path: Oh where is that
(She gives directions)
Path: So you think they will have something for her there?
Her: Yeah (she brushes her hair and actually seems interested now)
I walk off saying goodbye. Ken thinks i should have just tried to number close that one. I think i should of too i was never gonna see her again if i failed, but whatever i didnt.
Then we went up to market street and approached people to just talk to them for 5 minutes. I talked to a guy who had a comedy club and learned that i couldnt go because i wasn't 21 (he talked to me for a while so I guess i look over 21 =D). Ken talked to a guy with a camera and we ended up being in a sony ericson in house video. So were going to see ourselves get a newspaper sped up when it comes out.
Then Ken went into the comedy club guy and i asked to different set of girls where macy's was. The only macy approach that is anything significant went like this:
Path: Hey can you tell me where macy's is?
Them: Yeah its up the street i think
(They talk amongst themselves where it was because they were from out of town)
While they are talking i get the vibe like they have been there
Path: Where you guys just there or something
Them: Yeah
Path: Why were you guys there?
Them: Weird look
Path: Well it doesn't matter thanks anyway
and i leave
After this we end the day just talking about where we want to be and we head home. Overall it was a good effort on our first day and we can only get better. I felt like i pushed my comfort zone a bit more than i am used too so it was a success.
