**This is not a post to disparage the girl I met, with the mutilated face, it is a lesson I learned in confidence
I went to a coffee shop today, and thought I would practice talking to strangers/girls, whomever I could.
About 20 minutes after being there, a girl with a cap on, came and sat close to me, and a few minutes after that she opened me, with, "I like your shoes."
I looked up, and a conversation began. We talked for around 15 minutes, about shoes, and Europe. At the end, she asked for my Facebook and went on her way.
The lesson: this girl had a mutilated face and only one eye, and here's the zinger... She had more confidence than I would have known what to do with. She knew how she looked, and she opened me anyways. I can learn from this girl. Imagine the mental hurdles she may have had, being disfigured and talking in a slow drawl, but she did it anyways.
And another lesson to myself; she didn't have some routine, something that I've always wondered if one must have to open a cold approach like that. She merely mentioned my shoes. From there, conversation flowed to wherever it naturally went.
Also; I wasn't attracted to this girl and wouldn't have accepted a date; In fact, about halfway through the conversation, I was putting together excuses and so forth - just like I suppose plenty of girls would do if they were talking to a guy they weren't attracted to. But what was so nice about her method, was that she didn't ask any of that, she put zero pressure on me. No questions about a girlfriend, or if we should go out or yada yada. Just a simple opener, an easy conversation, asked for my contact info, then said goodbye.
This girl knows what she's doing! And I was lucky enough to be able to feel what it was like to be approached, as girls might.
Do you guys concur with this sort of approach? Does anyone care to share how their cold approaches typically go? As a total beginner; there is so much information out there about specific ways of going about it, routines, prepared stories etc.
Does what this girl did, work? - An easy opener about a prop, then ramble?
I went to a coffee shop today, and thought I would practice talking to strangers/girls, whomever I could.
About 20 minutes after being there, a girl with a cap on, came and sat close to me, and a few minutes after that she opened me, with, "I like your shoes."
I looked up, and a conversation began. We talked for around 15 minutes, about shoes, and Europe. At the end, she asked for my Facebook and went on her way.
The lesson: this girl had a mutilated face and only one eye, and here's the zinger... She had more confidence than I would have known what to do with. She knew how she looked, and she opened me anyways. I can learn from this girl. Imagine the mental hurdles she may have had, being disfigured and talking in a slow drawl, but she did it anyways.
And another lesson to myself; she didn't have some routine, something that I've always wondered if one must have to open a cold approach like that. She merely mentioned my shoes. From there, conversation flowed to wherever it naturally went.
Also; I wasn't attracted to this girl and wouldn't have accepted a date; In fact, about halfway through the conversation, I was putting together excuses and so forth - just like I suppose plenty of girls would do if they were talking to a guy they weren't attracted to. But what was so nice about her method, was that she didn't ask any of that, she put zero pressure on me. No questions about a girlfriend, or if we should go out or yada yada. Just a simple opener, an easy conversation, asked for my contact info, then said goodbye.
This girl knows what she's doing! And I was lucky enough to be able to feel what it was like to be approached, as girls might.
- No routine
- The utmost confidence, she acted as if her disfigurement didn't exist
- Casually asked for my contact
- I could tell it wouldn't have been a big deal if I would have said no, or continued reading my book
Do you guys concur with this sort of approach? Does anyone care to share how their cold approaches typically go? As a total beginner; there is so much information out there about specific ways of going about it, routines, prepared stories etc.
Does what this girl did, work? - An easy opener about a prop, then ramble?
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