It was just after 11 and I had already had 2 cups of coffee. I was pacing, I wanted to socialize. I always do when I'm amped up on caffeine. The counter help was busy. I walk to the bookshelf. I looked at the books and said, "I'm not even looking at the books. I know there's nothing here I want to read. I always come here and look at the bookshelf when I've had too much coffee."
We fluff, she offers me "The Collected Sketches of Monty Python" She has a sense of humor. "I've read it" I hand it back.
I pull the psychic test. She's responsive, I get it wrong. she's laughing. I high five her because we just proved what Millions of dollars of government research can't. ESP doesn't exist. IOIs galore.
Then it breaks down. We trade a little history. Too early, to standard. I'm AFCing. I shut up and stop facing her. lean back on the couch I have taken to when it was working. No "so". I've lost her.
As I get up to start walking away. I say, "caffeine won't let me stay still," and start to eject. She re-initiates. We talk a little more. She is interested. but I can't maintain it. I eject.
I can open the sets, DHV, get IOIs and initiate kino. I'm great up to that point. then
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What is the next step. We are alone in the coffee shop. I don't have to move. I can't bounce, I'm trying to close a deal so I can get paid. I'm waiting for my client to come back another appointment he had to make.
Of course the above excuses are just that, excuses. This is usually my sticking point. I quite ofter get Power Kino'd, girls literally grabbing my arm and pulling me back into a set I'm ejecting from because I am out of material.
This girl liked me, I KNOW she did. I just sputtered and died on the side of the road on the way to the races.
