A Cold (and I do mean Cold) Approach
I was reading a book in the park in the middle of the busy section of town that I mentioned in previous posts. It's chilly as hell yet there I am in two tee-shirts and no jacket. It really is a beautiful park although a skirmish broke out midday a couple weeks back and as a result the trees were cut back to make the entire park more visible. I think they butchered the trees, but i did do landscaping for a bit, so i'm biased on these kinda things lol.
So, I'm sitting there and a cutie is a about 50 meters ahead of me on a park bench. Dark black, and cute, looks a couple years older than me. I am convincing myself to approach when an older dude who was sitting in the park with what looked like either his mother or his drug dealer, decided to go in. Kudos for approaching but really man, stick to the strung out crackheads and prostitutes and leave the cuties to me, haha.
So he ejects after like 5 minutes of what looked like bad conversation and i think I catch her taking glances in my direction, I say fvck it and go in. I had a couple ideas in my head for conversations or witty remarks but of course, as soon as I went in, my mind went blank. It didn't help that she was initially on the phone when I went in either. I thought about turning around when I saw that but my feet kept on moving. She hung up after literally 3 seconds though so I opened
M: So whats a girl like you doing in a place like this?
Her: Huh
M: Sorry, I always wanted to say that? What are you doing in the park today?
Her: blah blah blah (in a thick jamaican accent, like barely understandable)
M: Oh true true, so was it a love connection before *sly smile*
Her: Was it a what?
M: *repeats* I could be wrong but he didn't look like your type (didn't like that line the 2nd it came out, sounds like im puttin him down to bring myself up)
Her: Oh I don't know, he could be, only time will tell
M: True true. So whats your name
Her: ....
Her: Sorry I don't give my name out
Ouch, lol. It's been so long since I've approached though, that I didn't really care and I was feeling good so it didn't bother me
M: Okay thats cool, I'll just call you mysterious lady. So you want to keep a little sense of mystery and allure about you. Well played
Her: haha okay
I heard someone here say something similar before. Rushing Dude is that yours? Anyways, she gets phone call, and after that a +40 yr old construction worker she knows comes up and starts talking to her. I used this time to regain my composure sommore and get my head right. The hardest part (opening) was over.
Mysterious Lady: *Finishes phone convo and talking to dude*
M: Damn, look at you, little miss popular. All these dudes hittin on you on the park, phone calls every 5 seconds, check you out.
Mysterious Lady: Haha no it's not like that *bla blah blah*
M: Okay whatever *smiling*
Then we talked about her job (hairdresser) and whether her hair is real (it's not) and how black women always be puttin fake hair in her head. We talked about where she is from and whey she was visiting, standard rapport but nothing that good. What else can I remember.. Oh yea, i thought this was corny/funny. I was eating some Milano cookies while talking to her so I thought, why the hell not:
M: Hey you want a cookie?
Mysterious Lady: *Scrunches up her face* Uh-uhh
M: *scoffs* thats okay, I wasn't gonna give you any anyways.
Mysterious Lady: *shocked look*
M: Yea, it was just a test to see if you accept food from strangers and you passed. Good job
She did ask my age a little later, which I always take as a sign that she was interested but after she called me too young I didn't have a follow up ready.
After a decent convo filled with a lull or two, she ejects. She turns around and says something to me as she leaves, like the interested women do in the movie/tv shows, but I didn't hear her and she walked away. I coulda/shoulda chased her but didn't.
No phone to close but I doubt it would have been a high success rate with this lady yet anyways. Hopefully I'll see her around and take it from there.
Anyways, this should be the first of many, many more cold approaches to come. Pce.