Day 10
So I was now out again at a really bad time. But I was determined to do some approaches and the drill I posted about before. So my goal was to open, transition, get on to the topic of travel and deep dive on it. I could approach two women today.
1st Approach- She was a girl standing on the tram stop not that great looking but still a set I could practice on. So I went in with my low key indirect opener I had planned. Made a comment about that particular tram line and how crowded it gets at this time and she was staring at me blankly and I continued and made another comment which was another opener I had planned. So I stacked my openers and then told her I was waiting for my friend and now she opened up a bit and told me she was not from here so she does not know much about the city but agreed as to how sometimes she too feels that the city is crowded.
I had planned a cold read as to where she was from but since she said she was not from here it gave me an easy opening to segue into asking where she was from. I knew the city she was from and told her when I had been there and what I thought of it. Then I used my transition gambit of how beautiful the city we were in was and how once I started living here I realized how easy it is to forget about its beauty and she agreed and said she however prefers smaller cities and that gave me my perfect opening to transition into the topic of travel.
I then told her about my favourite cities in Europe and asked her
“If you could go/live anywhere where would you choose to live?” She thought hard and mentioned some cities but she did not seem to really be up to talk much about travelling. I presumed this was maybe because she had not travelled that much. Anyways I had accomplished my objective of getting the conversation on to the topic of travel in a smooth way.
Then I moved on and spoke about learning languages and how we learn swear words first and by now she wanted me to continue the conversation and had turned towards me fully. I had hooked her not sexually but socially. She was giving me better eye-contact and we spoke about curse words and laughed and she brought up the curse word “I will fuck you” in her language which I thought was very interesting.
At this moment my phone rang and it was my mother and I had to take this call as I had to help her with something so I just got her name wished her a good day and left and she was beaming.
2nd Approach- I had to get going soon to go to a class at Uni but I wanted to approach more as the first set had taken a good 15 mins. Saw a woman sitting on a bench outside a train station. She was late 30s but I went for it anyway. Sat down next to her looking at my phone waited for a minute or so and opened with my low key opener asking if this was the platform that is closest to x entrance. She was very curt and gave me an almost annoyed look but she answered, but I stacked my opener and asked her if she knew whether there was another entrance to the train station, this time she answered a bit more elaborately and asked if I was going to another country. I told her that I was not and that I was just waiting for a friend.
That gave me a great opening to transition telling her that I have been living here and going to Uni here for two years and I told her I have been trying to learn the local language and said two sentences in the local language which made her chuckle and put a smile on her face. She then empathized with me that the language was hard and that I would have to stay here many more years to become proficient and then we spoke about learning languages and what languages she studied in high school.
I then recited my prepared gambit which goes something like
“You know, this city is so beautiful, when I came here two years ago I was fascinated at how beautiful the city is and felt that it was so strange that some locals did not appreciate it. But now after two years I realize that after we start living in a city we get so consumed by our day to day tasks that we forget to appreciate the beauty of a city, and it fades into the background. So I take time out to sometimes sit and just look around and admire the beauty of the city” This opened her up and she shared her experiences with the city and where she hails from and what she misses etc.
(I was like wow was this the same woman who I felt was annoyed when I opened her!!!?) She then peppered me with questions asking me where I was from and how I found the city and how it compares to my hometown etc.
At this point it was easy to transition into the topic of travel and I told her about me traveling to various cities in Europe and how I think travel sets you free and expands and shapes your personality
(I am working on a proper routine about travel that has hooks which I can then use to transition to talk about sex, adventure, sense of freedom etc.) She told me she loved Prague and Italy and she asked me a bunch other questions and I had achieved my objective of talking about travel and deep diving about it. I did very little to further the conversation from then on and she continued the conversation and we bantered a bit more.
I was not really attracted to her and she was quite older so I was not planning on a close. She then mentioned that she had to leave and I did not say anything to that so she waited for a second and then said it was nice talking to me and then she added that I could add her on Facebook if I wanted to talk to her some more or if I needed any help from a local. I did not have internet on my phone and asked if she could add me on Facebook, she whipped out her phone and I typed out my Facebook name and she sent me a request and just looked at the first few pics and said
“Oh! Wow. Seems like you have lots of friends and that you have a lot of fun”. To which I replied telling her that yes indeed I do and that I believe in living an interesting and fun life. She seemed impressed and again said something about how colorful my life seemed from my profile and then we exchanged names and she left. I texted her after going back home and we have been texting up until now but nothing sexual.
(I could only do 2 approaches but I am still happy I did them and I worked on this drill and will continue to piece my Game together bit by bit.)