Your thoughts on Mall Interactions

[HaleyBaron]

I got about three big malls within 20 mins of where I live here in Texas. They're still pretty active with all walks of life. I'm curious what the forum's thoughts on your view of the mall as a social space and how everyone exists there. Personally, it feels hollow. Everyone is walking around and even gets crowded, but no one is actually socializing. Everyone seems to be avoiding each other if they don't know them. And any kind of kinship is rarily created. Everyone looking busy but not really doing anything at the same time.

 

[DonJefe19]

I think you're a young guy (19-33) and you need to get over anxiety, they're perfect. But I find it easier when you're at an event around folks have similar interest. Warn approaches are easier

 

[HaleyBaron]

I think you're a young guy (19-33) and you need to get over anxiety, they're perfect. But I find it easier when you're at an event around folks have similar interest. Warn approaches are easier

I'm making observations based on how other people interact with others, or in effect, ways they avoid interactions entirely. I'm not included in this.

 

[DonJefe19]

I'm making observations based on how other people interact with others, or in effect, ways they avoid interactions entirely.

Like I said, I think there are better places to socializing than the mall.

 

[SW15]

@HaleyBaron

My experiences in malls are similar to yours.

It's more difficult to approach in the corridors between stores than it is to approach in the stores themselves. Roosh's "Day Bang" book provided a good framework about which stores to use for approaches and certain openers for the types of stores that he recommended. I recommend approaching inside a particular store than doing it in the corridors.

The corridors have options, but you are going to have to Open with a good observation to get her to stop and talk.

I have found it easier to approach inside of grocery stores than any mall store.

 

[HaleyBaron]

@HaleyBaron

My experiences in malls are similar to yours.

It's more difficult to approach in the corridors between stores than it is to approach in the stores themselves. Roosh's "Day Bang" book provided a good framework about which stores to use for approaches and certain openers for the types of stores that he recommended. I recommend approaching inside a particular store than doing it in the corridors.

The corridors have options, but you are going to have to Open with a good observation to get her to stop and talk.

I have found it easier to approach inside of grocery stores than any mall store.

I wasn't talking about just approaching like pick up. Just general socialization. Two people saying hi or talking about something. Maybe someone likes what another person is wearing. General stuff. No one does that. I know this applies more than at the mall, but the mall is a great example as it's meant to be a congregation of shoppers. However, it's like the modern equivalent of a shopping strip on a street. Except instead of booths and personal vendors, it's just an interior path with full fledged shops in place.

It rather gives a metro/ modernist take on where we have went as a people.

 

[SW15]

I wasn't talking about just approaching like pick up. Just general socialization. Two people saying hi or talking about something. Maybe someone likes what another person is wearing. General stuff. No one does that.

There isn't much general socialization in most public places.

 

[BPH]

I lost my virginity to a girl I approached at the mall.

Granted, that was the first and only time that happened, but that's because I went to college and met them at parties and bars after that.

I think it's great for learning how to not suck with women in an environment where failing is less likely to lead to a lingering reputation.

 

[BaronOfHair]

I'm curious what the forum's thoughts on your view of the mall as a social space and how everyone exists there. Personally, it feels hollow

I've found them to be generally gore-free spaces, where everyone exists perfectly well, EXCEPT on those occasions an off-his-meds incel drops by, Glock 19 and hollow points in tow. THEN the scenery gets visceral, and many(though rarely everyone)stop existing as anything more than memories in the minds of their immediate families, the likes of which grow fuzzier with each subsequent year

Remember to throw on kevlar, before walking through the entrance near the food court, in case of rain, OP: Prospects of surviving to "create kinship", as you put it, then become strong

 

[Rainman4707]

@HaleyBaron

My experiences in malls are similar to yours.

It's more difficult to approach in the corridors between stores than it is to approach in the stores themselves. Roosh's "Day Bang" book provided a good framework about which stores to use for approaches and certain openers for the types of stores that he recommended. I recommend approaching inside a particular store than doing it in the corridors.

The corridors have options, but you are going to have to Open with a good observation to get her to stop and talk.

I have found it easier to approach inside of grocery stores than any mall store.

I defo find that in corridors malls etc asking for an opinion stops them in there tracks more than the preferable advised "hey" or trying to comment on something you like about them personally - they just keep walking unless you ask them for an opinion.

 

[Rainman4707]

I got about three big malls within 20 mins of where I live here in Texas. They're still pretty active with all walks of life. I'm curious what the forum's thoughts on your view of the mall as a social space and how everyone exists there. Personally, it feels hollow. Everyone is walking around and even gets crowded, but no one is actually socializing. Everyone seems to be avoiding each other if they don't know them. And any kind of kinship is rarily created. Everyone looking busy but not really doing anything at the same time.

In regards to how people interact, you are right they just walk bout like zombies in their own world. Annoys me how many women walk about with headphones on.

 

[CornbreadFed]

I would recommend a venue that welcomes interactions with strangers. Even if someone isn't an @$$hole, I would expect anybody approaching me at a mall to be selling me cologne or something.