"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"

You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.

For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.

Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.

The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.

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How to pick up a waitress - Ser3 style

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OK, since I need some distraction away from a term paper I've been working on all day, I'm going to (finally) post a "field report" about how I gamed a waitress the other day.

I usually don't write these, primarily because I usually forget what I said, or they are nothing out of the ordinary. However, this one is pretty much a perfect example of how to game a waitress.

So, I spent all Wednesday snowboarding up in the mountains, drinking all day, all that good stuff. To pay back my friend who drove, I take him out to get some food at a local wing place (NOT Hooters!). When we meet our server, I notice she's a really cute chick. I'll give her a HB7.5 for you ratings junkies out there.

Nothing really happened while my friend and I ate our meal, as I wasn't really considering gaming the waitress yet (snowboarding tiredness and alcohol destroys my initiative).

At some point, I made a compliment on the waitress' cool hair (it is layered and colored interestingly), and asked her if I could see it, so I played with her hair a little bit. Since I give off more of a grizzly adams vibe than a gay hairdresser vibe, I took her letting me play with her hair as a sign of interest. Game on.

So after the waitress leaves, my buddy (a mack who had already #closed a girl on the slopes that day) knows that I'm going to try to game her, so as a friendly wager he bets that I can't pick her up. I'm usually averse to macking on girls that work as waitresses because I think they're just being nice to get a tip, but I figured why not, I had already gotten an IOI.

When she comes back with the check, the conversation goes something like this:
*S3 notices her nametag says "Reynold"*
S3: Hey, you don't look like a "Reynold", did you forget your nametag today?
HB: Yeah, I was in a rush today blah blah... (I told you guys I forget dialouge)
S3: Well then what's your real name?
HB: Lauren.
S3: So what do you like to do for fun, Lauren?
HB: Well, I like to go out...
S3: That's all? That sounds kind of boring...
HB: Well, I like to read, too.
S3: Ahh, a girl after my own heart! You just earned two points!
HB: *giggles* So what do you like to do for fun?
S3: *points at ski pass on his pants* I live to ski and board up in the mountains.
HB: That's cool.
S3: Well Lauren, I think you're a cute girl, I'd like to hang out with you sometime, what is your number?
HB: Number
S3: Right on, I'll give you a call sometime this weekend.
HB: :)

The funny thing is that I fully expected this to turn into a fuckup report, because since I was in the mode of tipping $1 or $2 at the bar all day, I accidentally left the girl a $2 tip on a $25 meal. :woo: If I was a chick, I would never go out with some cheapskate that left a 5% gratuity. However, I called her up tonight, and she was nothing but cool. We're going to hang out this week :rockon:

I'm sure I've left some things out of the report, but that's a pretty faithful recollection of the events. And that's how it's done.
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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Cool. Nice job. (Also maybe she would have felt like you were buying her had you left a big tip. So maybe the small one was smart. ;) )
 

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Smooth man! Yeah T-Roy is right, u left the right tip.
Keep it up.
 
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