by Guest » Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:07 pm
Gentlemen.
It's that time again... and here's another video, this one from this past weekend in Ft Worth. It was my only set this weekend, in fact. Again. Incidentally, this "not opening sets thing" is becoming a problem, but I digress.
To begin to break down the evening, I should note that there was some "friend drama," of which there is no need to get in. ;) Two of my friends were having some differences. So I spent the first part of the night mixed up in that and not gaming, and not in the mindset to game anyway. Well, a little, but of course friends come first. Then, PC and Prodigy show up, and everyone talks it out, and everything is fine, dandy, and peachy.
This pickup occurs immediately after the "friend drama" is taken care of and behind us, and I can divert my attention to girls, which I do.
A mixed three set was sitting next to where we were standing at the bar. I want to open now, but I don't want to just jump in head-first because we had been positioned next to them all night while hashing out our issues, and I feel like jumping in randomly will not work well. I can just tell in my gut.
So here's what I did.
I noticed my target's friend (the friend is there with her bf), get up to use the bathroom, but alas, there's a small line outside the girl's room, I notice, and she is stuck in it. So I "conveniently" get up to use the bathroom too.
In line, I say to her nonchalantly..."hey, your friend is pretty cute, is she single?"
"yeah she is!" and I chat with the target's friend (her name is Jamie) for a second by the bathroom.
I take a leak, head back to my group, and sit next to my target and start talking.
I go in just introducing myself. My new friend Jamie comes up and makes the opening very nice and warm.
For this reason, I did not need any banter or attraction or C&F shit. I didn't do any, because there was no need to take any risks at all. Logistically, an SNL was impossible anyway, so the smart play was to get the number, make the number solid, and get out.
This is probably the boring-est pickup video in history. Yet, its very existence is instructional. She doesn't shit test me or resist even one time. I just go in, qualify, build rapport, number close, and leave. And, it true Peter Grimm style, this simple act takes about 30 minutes. Who knows. (Actually the reason for that is I am making sure this number is not a flake)
But it goes to show... win over the friends, and life is much much easier. And that goes for many things in life.