by Guest » Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:06 pm
[QUOTE=Bull Run;33642]Yeah, I agree with you here. If you invite a girl to tag along with you and your friends, then she can interpret that as you wanting her to be with you in a romantic sense OR just as a friend.
I would suggest that you leave what you're going to do ambiguous. Say something like: "I'm going to take you out and show you a good time" or "You and I are totally going to hang out." It really is that simple. If you make it clear that the day2 is just you and her, then you don't have to qualify why you want her to be there with you. In my opinion, saying, "I like you, let's hang out" is a little weak and, quite frankly, boring. Be a little more creative. You could say: "you're awesome...we're going to hang out, but the only time I can is when I organize my sock drawer. I know you'd be down to shuffle through my undies...I promise most of them are clean" or "I'm going to take you to dinner, and by dinner I mean McDonald's...I'll even let you get 4 items from the dollar menu."
Here's what I think could be a problem with your approach. It may very well be that you're being way too professional about the whole thing. Understand, that the worst thing you can be with a woman is BORING. It's better to be fun and exciting and interesting and to take risks than it is to play it safe. Now, this doesn't mean you have to show her your cards. Just be a little bit more fun with her. Tell her: "I don't think my mom will approve of my relationship with you, so we're going to have to run off and elope...we can honeymoon at The Super 8 in McKinney...you know, the one with the magic fingers beds."
Have fun with it. It's supposed to be fun. First and foremost. I would guess that you're putting way too much pressure on yourself which is resulting in you being too mechanical when you ask them for a day2. Loosen up a little bit. Maybe you are already doing that, but I don't see that in your post at all.
The other thing that you need to think about is how much comfort you've built with this girl. In my opinion, the BIGGEST mistake guys make in PU is that they're too quick close. Take your time. Let her get comfortable with you and your personality. Remember that number closes are virtually meaningless. Girls give their numbers out to guys ALL THE TIME. Seriously, it means nothing.
I learned this dynamic and began to focus more on building comfort and creating rapport and found that although my number closes fell, the quality of those numbers improved dramatically. I can honestly say I went from pulling a day2 1 out of every 4 NCs to pulling a day2 virtually 100% of the time. And, many times I SNL'd a chick before I ever number closed her. It's not linear, it doesn't go number close, kiss close, fuck close. Keep that in mind.
The way I see it, you can easily get 2 - 3 high quality number closes (by that I mean they don't flake and they're IN to you) a night if you focus on comfort. Compare that to getting 6 - 7 number closes in a night and only 1 or 2 of them panning out.[/QUOTE]
There are lots of SOLID points made in this post. I totally agree that a lot of guys in the community are too quick to try to close. Sure, she gives you her number...but you need to remember that this is the south...and women here are a lot nicer and care about a stranger's feelings (at least most.) I spend a lot of time conveying the different intricacies of my personality and gauging how she reacts to them before I even think about closing.
This past Saturday, I went to Sherlocks and met Vector, Prodigy, and another guy who was community, but I don't know his board name. Ten minutes in the venue I get us in a 'bachelorette' party. I put that in quotes because at the end of the night, they admitted that it was a fake bachelorette party...it was actually just their way of celebrating one girl's birthday and her recent break up with a douche. Anyhoo...
The entire night revolved around me cold reading different guys in the venue, telling them how to flirt with them, and how to get free drinks out of them. Some of the time I would even game the guys and bring them over to the girls and get us ALL drinks out of them. They learned my personality, my intelligence, and my personability. At the end of the night they realized that they didn't even ask me my name...but I already had two of their numbers and one asking to add me on facebook.
The point of that whole schpeel was that you need to focus less on the prize and more on the journey to it. I'd rather find out then and there if she's worth investing time in to than doing it later via text or whatever. If you get her to invest more of herself when interacting with you, setting up a day 2 will be no problem.
As for HOW to set up a day 2, I always make it ambiguous (as many have said in this post.) I wait until she's in my car (or a few hours before if she's meeting me somewhere) before divulging my plans. My plans are always simple. I developed a board game that allows us to find out about each other and the outcome of the game picks what we do next. I typically make the day 2 a happy hour meet up, and get a table away from the crowd. It might sound gay, and I thought it would be when I came up with it, but it comes off as fun and goofy to my dates...which is very congruent with my personality. Don't worry so much about what you do...the game I made up has us doing crap like going to a random bar by a university on a random night and seeing whatever random ass band is playing (I'm big in to music, so that's big for me), going to a park and playing laser tag (I've done this since high school and it always ends with me chasing, catching, and kissing), causing trouble at Target or Walmart, people watching at a known 30k millionaire or cougar hang out, etc.
Oh, another thing I'd like to throw in is something I learned from Bull Run...avoid putting things between the two of you. By this, I mean tables. I never sit across from a girl at dinner or happy hour...always next to. It makes it seem less like an interview, and more laid back. Plus, it's easier to get your kino going...reaching across a table is try-hard and creepy.
This post is all over the fucking place, but I haven't had my Adderall in 3 days and I'm basically a 27 year old version of that Mike Meyers skit where he was leashed to a jungle gym...just overlook my lack of flow today.