Today was a good day... *BIG understatement* The angels are singing. The sun is shining. The gods of DJing have finally answered my prayers.
It was Saturday in the early afternoon. The weather was absolutely GORGEOUS. About 75 degrees Farenheight. LOTS of sunshine. No clouds. I was taking a stroll in a very crowded park wearing a plaid shirt, chino pants, Vans shoes, and a bookbag on my back. I just came out of an informal meeting at a cuisine with some friends.
Approach 27 (best one yet)
HB7 is sitting on the bench reading a book. I walk up next to her and face her, while still standing.
Me: Excuse me
*HB7 looks up*
Me: Hi. I thought you were really cute and I just wanted to say hi.
HB7: Oh! *giggle*
Me: What's your name? *extend hand*
HB7: -- *shake hands*
Me: Nice to meet you. I'm --. Where are you from?
HB7: Amsterdam
Me: Oh Amsterdam! *head nod* ...Is that in America? *with stupid confused look on my face*
HB7: No. It's in Holland.
Me: You said Holland?
HB7: Yes
Me: Oh niice. So you're just visiting the states or something?
HB7: No I'm an exchange student here
Me: At [xyz university]? (we were on their campus, which is in the city)
HB7: Yea
Me: Oh cool! I have a lot of friends who go to [xyz university]
HB7: What do you do?
*i explain to her what i do for a living real briefly, which i won't disclose here. sorry. but it is a job*
Me: What is there you're reading?
HB7: Here *hands book to me*
Me: Oh cool *head nod* (so fake since i've never seen this book before). Have you heard of "kindle"?
HB7: I'm sorry what?
Me: Have you heard of something called a "kindle"? You can read tons of books on it. *i take out the kindle in my bookbag and show it to her as if she grew up in a cave*
HB7: Oh yea. I have an iPad, but it's too heavy and bulky. I just read this *waves her book in the air*
Me: I see. Cool. *nod head* You're old fashioned. You can flip through the pages and stuff... (conversation was coming into a lull here) Listen I gotta get going. Let me give you a call sometime.
HB7: *slight chuckle* Sure. But I have a dutch number.
Me: That's fine. Just put it in here *put my phone in her hands*
HB7: There saved. See? *hands the phone to me*
Me: Cool thanks. How do you pronounce your name again? *i forgot it*
HB7: -- (it had a wierd pronunciation THANK GOD. i had a legit reason to re-ask for her name)
Me: --? *trying to re-pronounce it with some wierd "agghk" sound in it. i'm not sure*
HB7: Yep!
Me: Cool. Alright it was nice meeting you! See you around *wave goodbye*
HB7: You too!
Approach 28 (even better)
Two BIKINI CLAD HB7'S or HB8's (i'm not quite sure, too distracted to give a fair rating, but definitely 7 or above) LYING DOWN AT A CROWDED PARK TANNING UNDER TEH SUN caught my attention and I'M SURE everybody else's too. One was blond; the other had dark brown hair. As I walked past them, I thought to myself, "What the hell! I'm on a roll already and I have nothing to lose! Just have FUN damnit! What's the worst that can happen? A rejection! Like you've never experienced one of those before..." I turn right and walk up next to the brown haired HB7.5 (could be either a 7 or 8, not too sure, but she sure was SMOKING HOT in her bikini and short shorts). I chose her at random, since she was the closest to me. They were both equally HOT as far as I could tell. As I stood over her, she still lay there facing the sky with her sunglasses on without noticing me. I think her eyes were closed.
Me: Excuse me!
(both HB7.5's wake up and sit up straight looking at me)
Me: I thought you were really cute and I just wanted to say hi. (didn't sound nervous at all. i didn't sound too forced either. my mindset was "i don't give a F*** wITH GUNS A'BLAZING BI***ES!!!!!!!!!")
*both HB's chuckle REALLY hard*
Me: What's your name? *extend hand*
HB7.5: -- (which I didn't even register in my mind b/c of her damn BOOBS)
Me: Nice to meet you. I'm --. I see you guys are getting um... *little stutter* uhg getting a sun tan!
Both HB's: Yep! Haha!
Me: *I was thinking to myself "F*** MEEEEE!!! YOU NERVOUS POS* I quickly glance behind me to look for something in my surroundings to talk about, since i wasn't thinking straight at this point* You guys go to [xyz university] here? (same xyz school as HB7 goes to in Approach 26 since we were on their campus)
HB7.5: No I graduated already.
Me: Oh cool! What do you do now?
HB7.5: I go to graduate school.
Me: Where at?
HB7.5: [abc university]
Me: Cool. Where is that located?
HB7.5: [some other part of the city]
Me: Oh ok cool. Yea I have a lot of friends who go to [xyz university] here which is why i asked
HB7.5: Do you go to [xyz university]?
Me: No I graduated already (crap she might realize she's a few years older than me)
HB7.5: What are you doing here?
Me: I'm just chillin and going shopping. I just got out of Barnes and Noble (crap she might get a hinch of what i'm really out here doing here)
Me: That's quite a trip you made to here. From [other part of city].
HB7.5: I live in [part of city we are in now]
Me: Oh cool! Then you must be like super rich to be living here then huh!
HB7.5: Haha not really
Me: Because it's like super expensive here.
HB7.5: Yea i know
Me: Oh ok. You're parents must be super rich then!
HB7.5: No
Me: I'm jk (it's taboo to call people's parents rich in this day and age in the US, where our culture is quite democratic and egalitarian i know) Have you ever thought about living in (neighborhood in other part of city that is closer to her school and cheap)? I heard it's like really nice there.
HB7.5: (neighborhood)?
Me: Yea (neighborhood). It's in (part of city she goes to school in). A lot of my co-workers live there.
HB7.5: Yea i've heard of it
Me: Yea and i heard it's really gentrified or something.
HB7.5: Nah. I'm staying in (part of city we're currently in, which is super expensive)
Me: Haha I hear you. (neighborhood) is probably too hipsterish for you anyways for you. right?
HB7.5: haha yea
Me: Yea this is where it's at! You know? You're right
HB7.5: Yea
Me: Listen I gotta get going but let me give you a call sometime. What's your phone number? *whip out my phone*
*both HB's burst out start laughing*
HB7.5: Haha sure. It's ---
Me: Mm-hmm... #### you said?
HB7.5: No ####
Me: #### got it. Are you from [state]? (i recognize her area code)
HB7.5: ...yea... How'd you know? (other girl is laughing)
Me: I could tell from the area code. I'm from (town near hers)!
HB7.5: Oh haha (town x)? Yeaa I know (town x)
Me: What town are you from?
HB7.5: (town y)
Me: Cool! Isn't it like maad ghetto there or something?
HB7.5: Yea kind of
Me: Because there were some people who moved from there to my high school, and they were the like the most ghetto people there (i could be mistaken about the town name here not sure)
HB7.5: Yea it's not that great an area. But I didnt go to (town b)'s public high school. I went to a different school.
Me: What school?
HB7.5: (high school)
Me: Is that like a catholic school or something?
HB7.5: No It's a jewish school
Me: So you're jewish?
HB7.5: Yea
Me: Yooo! I have maad jewish friends! *both HB's burst out laughing again* and there's like maad jewish ppl who go to (xyz university) here too! it's like 33% of the school! even though I know you don't go the (xyz university, which is the campus we're on)
Me: Alright then! I'll see you guys around! It was nice talking to you guys.
Both HB's: Bye! (wave)
Me: Shalom!
(a few minutes later i was having those scooby doo moments inside my head. "roo? wtf happened? i just number closed a smoking hot bikini clad HB?? did i rip into a new time and space cotinuum?")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_C2HJvtRDY
Approaches: 28
Ph No's: 3
Anyone got any funny Jewish nicknames for this girl that I can address her as? Should I text or call? And how do I call international numbers? smh
Clearly, I've been kicking myself in the *** by approaching moving targets all this time. The times I finally number closed, they've both been sedentary targets. But I still want to close moving targets... maybe next time...
shoutout to Deicide and Espi and everyone else who has been keeping me going because that's really all i needed. people to keep me going even after the slew of rejections. thanks a ton. and you can bet i'll keep on chugging along with these approaches going forward
disclaimer to newbs reading these approaches: please do note that i have been working really hard to improve my appearance by hitting the gym and dressing well before making these recent approaches. they may have or may not have been the necessary ingredients for the number closes, but i just wanted to put this information out there. i've been striving to improve myself and my appearance this whole time in the process. i used to dress a LOT worse until my friend talked me into actually focusing on improving my appearance in all aspects.
