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Re: STICKIED: E's Journal
Determined:
What I mean is that's it's great that both her own behavior and the third-party support worked together to consolidate that attitude in your mind and give you an additional reference point in favor of approaching in this situation. I like your beckoning and I wonder whether you enjoyed, as I did, Chase's suggestion of "motioning them over to you, getting increasingly fun and emphatic about waving them over every time they refuse" in his recent article.
Last Monday I was in a campus bookstore around lunchtime (there are three major universities in my city and this was one where I'd never yet tried day game), and on some sofas there sat a cute girl with black hair and very high sex appeal... not beautiful as such but the "cheeky type", if you know what I mean. I'd guess she was around 19. Next to her sat a guy of around the same age. The guy was totally absorbed in some book and he looked boring as fuck. She was dozing off initially, then distractedly playing with her phone. Initially I had no idea whether they were "together", or indeed even "there together", but later I saw them exchange a few words before Mr Grumpy returned to his book.
Anyway, I was hanging around pretending to look at books and wondering how I might get her attention, without rousing Mr Grumpy from his book, when it became apparent that she noticed I was doing this. She stole a glance at me and looked away very quickly, smiling. Then, a few minutes later, the same again. After that was when she started chatting with the guy and I confirmed my suspicion that they at least knew each other (she was clearly waiting for him to finish whatever he was doing). I could never hold eye contact with her long enough to motion her over, which is what I wanted to do, so I ended up leaving empty-handed, very reluctantly.
As I was on the way out I took a last look and she saw me, moved her head away behind a bookshelf, then back again in a "peek-a-boo" maneuver... I think it was all a game to her! But I'm clueless as to how I could have executed properly in this situation without raising the hackles of her beau (if that's indeed who he was).
I was reminded of this by what you wrote above, and I daresay I might have had better results had I followed your example
-Marty
Determined:
This is tremendous. I like your attitude that you "had no choice" but to respond to an approach invitation. I am now forming that exact same "code of conduct" in my personal principles, aided by the lyrics of this song which I think speak to this exact issue.determined said:Saturday I was walking back to my place and passed 3 girls standing by a club. I noticed one who was stunning, but thought to myself that "Eh, she's with her friends, so I'll pass." But as I walked by she met my eye contact and smiled, so I had no choice.
I turned around after a few steps and motioned over, no words. She said no, she's with her friends, but she said it warmly, as if the fact that some strange man just beckoned her over wasn't creepy or unreasonable at all, just a bit cocky (and attractive). Which is awesome, because that kind of nonverbal approach can easily come off as creepy.
So I approached closer and started talking, first to her, then a tiny bit to her friends, then lasered back in on her, full attention. And the friends took a step back and pretended to play with their phones! No protectiveness, no cockblocking, just left us alone. Found out this girl has a boyfriend and is leaving the country next week to study abroad, but it was her and her friends' reactions that mattered. I was on point!
What I mean is that's it's great that both her own behavior and the third-party support worked together to consolidate that attitude in your mind and give you an additional reference point in favor of approaching in this situation. I like your beckoning and I wonder whether you enjoyed, as I did, Chase's suggestion of "motioning them over to you, getting increasingly fun and emphatic about waving them over every time they refuse" in his recent article.
Last Monday I was in a campus bookstore around lunchtime (there are three major universities in my city and this was one where I'd never yet tried day game), and on some sofas there sat a cute girl with black hair and very high sex appeal... not beautiful as such but the "cheeky type", if you know what I mean. I'd guess she was around 19. Next to her sat a guy of around the same age. The guy was totally absorbed in some book and he looked boring as fuck. She was dozing off initially, then distractedly playing with her phone. Initially I had no idea whether they were "together", or indeed even "there together", but later I saw them exchange a few words before Mr Grumpy returned to his book.
Anyway, I was hanging around pretending to look at books and wondering how I might get her attention, without rousing Mr Grumpy from his book, when it became apparent that she noticed I was doing this. She stole a glance at me and looked away very quickly, smiling. Then, a few minutes later, the same again. After that was when she started chatting with the guy and I confirmed my suspicion that they at least knew each other (she was clearly waiting for him to finish whatever he was doing). I could never hold eye contact with her long enough to motion her over, which is what I wanted to do, so I ended up leaving empty-handed, very reluctantly.
As I was on the way out I took a last look and she saw me, moved her head away behind a bookshelf, then back again in a "peek-a-boo" maneuver... I think it was all a game to her! But I'm clueless as to how I could have executed properly in this situation without raising the hackles of her beau (if that's indeed who he was).
I was reminded of this by what you wrote above, and I daresay I might have had better results had I followed your example
-Marty