Official bootcamp thread starting 9/16/04

[Ever onward]

Week 2, Day 3

I got my first rejection yesterday. I had to return the pants I bought, they didn't fit so good. The girl at the returns desk was extremely hot. She was about 5'10", 19, long brown hair, a total wet dream. Normally I wouldn't even bother talking to her but things are changing....

The whole time she was giving me a refund I busted on her and played with her. I had her smiling the whole time. She handed me the copy of the reciept back and said "thank you, have a nice day" But I forced myself to take action for once in my life. I flipped the reciept over on the counter, grabbed a pen, and said "give me your phone number"

she said "no, I have a boyfriend"

I said "okay, no problem" and left.

That was the first time in my life I ever asked for a girls phone number. I know I should just be getting conversations this week but I am getting impatient. I felt good afterwards anyways.
It's like Seraph said in his Bootcamp journal, the hardest part isn't being rejected, it's that moment before you take action. The second you have to push yourself over the hump.

So anyways, I've been getting a few hi's in today around campus. Nothing to write home about. But then I left campus and went to subway. As I got out of my car, a hottie pulled up right next to me and got out. I was hoping she would go into subway and I could get a convo going but she went next door. I didn't even say hi. So I was a little dissappointed that I choked.

I was driving home, and wolfing down my subway sandwhich and I saw this really hot girl jogging down the road. I thought, okay, this is it, I'm going for it. I turned off ahead of her, turned around, and pulled back to the stop sign at the corner. She came jogging by and I waved at her. She waved back and went on jogging by. I pulled out and drove up the road about a half a block, and I pulled in a parking lot.

I got out of my car and walked up to her as she was jogging towards me. She saw me coming....lol. She slowed to a walk as I came up to her. This is how the conversation went....

me: I was just driving by and I saw you, you're kind of cute. Can I have your number?

her: No....but thanks, you're really sweet, I am so flattered. What's your name?

me: Ever onward

her: what do you do?

me: I work at such and such and I go to college

her: oh....okay you can have my number....

I told her I couldn't memorize it so I went to my car and got a pen and my planner out of my back pack. I went back over to her, handed her my planner and she wrote down her number.

She said: "call me in a few days, we'll go for coffee or something."

me: okay, have fun jogging, you look good.....

LOL

Okay, I know I should just be getting conversations here but dammit I can't help myself......I feel like a door has been opened that I've been trying to get through my whole life. two days ago I had never asked for a number in my life and now I've asked twice with a 50% success ratio.

Alright, from now on I'll try not to ask every girl out in sight. I'll concentrate on the conversations.

This is amazing. For the first time in forever, I feel like I'm in control of my own life. I am finally becoming the man I've always wanted to be.

Week 2 convo count: 3
Phone Numbers: 1
rejections: 1

onward,

 

[gav]

well done man.

yeh, henlein had a saying

"if you're on the 7th floor of a burning building, all you need to do is jump. now you've just got to worry about the landing."

 

[Seraph]

They grow up so fast, sniff sniff

Good work EO, stay focused and you'll be done with this in no time.

 

[Ever onward]

I hope so Seraph.....I hope I don't get too distracted with dates to finish the Bootcamp.

 

[MrCode]

Damn Ever onward, I'm almost shocked at that approach. I mean that was ballsy, but look how well it turned out. OK, my Boot Camp is starting to look like crap. Damn you!

 

[Ever onward]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

It is hands down the ballsiest action I have ever taken in my life and I owe it all to Bootcamp.

You know, I don't really fear rejection already at week 2. Why should I let my self esteem depend on if some girl has the good taste to go out with me?

My problem is I'm horrible at conversation and my social skillz suck. I don't know how to build rapport or attraction or anything. But hey, I'm out there doing, which is the only real way to learn.

Don't be so hard on yourself Mr. Code. You and Seraph have been my two biggest inspirations. I am following your progress very closely.

Oh yeah, here is my email: never_too_late2004@yahoo.com

Everyone else who joined BC gave there emails, so I might as well too. For all the good it does.

 

[frivolousz21]

bump good work men

 

[Recluce]

well i've been slacking on the bootcamp the past few days. my roomate bought warcraft 3 and i hadn't played the expansion for that os i downloade it and have been playing it. grrrr i uninstalled it last night though.

i worked at the club thursday night and started up a conversation with 2 girls that night. well one started one up with me but she looked very interested. both about HB 7's.

friday i got up for my class at 8, (i didn't go to sleep till like 430 b/c of work) went to 2 classes then went back home and crashed till 7 when i had to start getting ready for work. friday night the girl that started the convo with me the night before was there so we talked a little bit, she was trying to find out more about me and i was not answering her questions directly. she asked how old i am and i used the,"why? so you can go brag to all your friends about how you picked up this sexy older guy? (im 21 and everyone tells me i look like im 17, and she's 24) i was really busy with work friday so i didn't get to do much approaching.

saturday was boring. i work up at about 10, played warcraft ALL DAMN DAY then went to work at 8. a girl i know that lives an hour away called to tell me that it was her birthday and wanted to know what i was doing that night. we catch up a bit (havent talked in 2 weeks) and i tell her that i have to get back to work to finish setting up. she asks if im going to tell her happy b-day and i say,"i was thinking about it, but give me a call tommorow and we'll see". i should have said,"no, i'd rather wait and tell you tommorow face to face" also some girl came up to the bar and said that her friend lost her purse and wanted to know where it would be if someone turned it in. i told her to just go knock on the door right behind her and she turned around, pointed to the door and asked,"that door?" i reply with,"no...the other door behind you" she then starts to look around for another door and ends up pointing to the one in front of her and to the left and again asks,"that one?" by this time im cracking up inside, trying not to have a big ****-eating grin on my face. i reply with,"now is that door behind you?!" i could tell she was getting annoyed just a little bit, but not by the fat that i was being so hard on her, but by the fact that she couldn't get me to submit. she even went so far as to hit me on the arm. i came up with something like,"be careful or ill have to call the bouncers on ya". then i say," well you've been distracting me long enough, i have to get back to work so just go knock on the door BEHIND you and ask if anyone turned in a purse." as i turned away i turn back and her name and if she has email. she tells me her name and says no so i come back with,"well do you use electricity?!" she laughed and i said well then just give me your number instead, i guess that'll have to do. this was towards the end of the night and i could tell she felt reluctant about doing it so i just said,"nevermind...dont worry about it." and get back to working.

i didn't get a number close but it doens't bother me because i didn't even get upset when she rejected me (if you want to even call that a rejection) and im thrilled about that!

sunday i played warcraft all day again... GRRRRR. then last night we went to one of the clubs to play dodgeball....yes...dodgeball. i talked to a few girls their...not many people oout on a sunday and most of the girls there were just their with their boyfriends to watch them play. i had a blast and that all i was really worried about.

 

[Ever onward]

Week 2, Day whatever

I'm feeling down today. The last few days I have been on such a high and today nothing special happened. I feel flat...sorta let down.

I saw that girl from my marketing class. She waved at me as I was crossing the street but I didn't get to talk to her.

I have had no time to even think about getting into conversations. I am getting so fukking bogged down with school work right now it isn't even funny.

I feel like I've taken a major step backwards. Yesterday I felt confident, today I feel like it was all in my head.

Hope everyone else is having a better day than I am.

onward,

 

[TinyFzzyKiwi]

Originally posted by Recluce
well i've been slacking on the bootcamp the past few days. my roomate bought warcraft 3 and i hadn't played the expansion for that os i downloade it and have been playing it. grrrr i uninstalled it last night though.

lol, i know what thats like, the damned game is addictive. I waste to much time in it, rather than going out and doing other things, like this bootcamp. anyway, if you ever wana play, just wisper me, my wc sn is: BLHK, btw i only play expansion, dont like reign of chaos all that much wit the exp out.

 

[idiot_boyfriend]

Week 1 (again?)

Well, I only have two more days to get 47 hi's or else I screwed up my first week of bootcamp. Realistically, I don' think I can do that so I'll probably just start all over again this Wednesday....

....and another thing. If I'm going out with a girl, should I put a hold to bootcamp for a little bit?

 

[gav]

ok, how many folk are still in this?

today, i made my first number close in a while. she was a 7, pretty fun outgoing personality, which is what i like. i was talking to her for about 15 minutes about all sorts of stuff, but i felt the convo drifting towards the friendship side of things and i am definitely not going to go out with her, unless i can get into the right frame of mind. barely any kino, playfulness in the convo. i've got reading to do.

the good thing is that i was completely at ease with the girl, totally relaxed and having a good time.

 

[Recluce]

got an email close today from this 26 year old. she's about a 7. when i got on the bus she was the only attractive girl on the bus so of course i sat right next to her. she was talking to someone on the phone and as soon as i sat down i heard her say,"well i don't really want to talk about this right now becuase im on the bus" this of course intrigued me. so when she got off the phone i asked her what was so private that she doesn't want strangers to know about. as i said that, another guy chimed in and started to try to pick up on her as well!

well when i realized this i was excited...i've never been in a position where me and another guy have competed for a girl simultaniously. well she says that she just moved down here and is converting to a new religion and she was talking ot her dad and he was getting all upset about it. how amazing....instantly conversation topics opened up in 1 statement.

1)why she moved down here
2)why she is converting to a new religion
3)her relationship between her and her dad

we talk for a little while, i say a few funny statements, not much ****y though, i've been trying to hold back on it. she completly forgets about the other guy and just focuses on me. it gets quiet for a second and she says,"oh...by the way...im katie." i introduce myself and we talk for a little longer. before getting off the bus i say, well my stop is coming up, do you have email? she says yea so i grab a pen and paper and hand it to her. i tell her to go ahead and write her number down there too but she just hands me the paper with her name and email. (not sure if she heard me or not, its loud on the bus)

oh well, this bootcamp is starting to work for me. it almost felt natural to ask her for her email.

 

[Ever onward]

Well it is now 9:20 and I'm at the library studying.

Yeah right, I'm studying chicks!

hahahha

Well I got in one brief convo with some chick who was studying nearby to this computer terminal I'm using so there's another convo for week 2.

I also got another phone #, damn, I'm a phone number grabbing ho.

What happened was I went down stairs to the llibrary entranceway to talk on my cell phone to my best friend who lives out of town. While I was talking to him, I noticed this HB also using her cell phone in the area. So I walked near her and this is what I said on my cell phone:

me: (to friend on phone) yeah I'm at the library right now and there is this really hot chick standing here and I'm trying to get her attention."

I said that loud enough so she could hear me. She looked over and smiled. Eventually she got off the phone and was waiting for something (later I found out it was the pizza guy)

So anyways, I'm still on the phone and this is what I said:

me: yeah I keep trying to get this chicks phone number but she keeps ignoring me...ect ect.

The whole time she is smiling and cracking up, lol. So I whisper to her, "can I have your phone number?"

She said "no, I don't just give out my phone number to just anybody" so then she asks me my name and tells me hers. So then she agreed to give me her number. I didn't have a pen so she gave it to me and I had my friend who is still on the line write it down. Then I offered to give her my number and she took out her cell phone and entered it into it.

Pretty soon the Pizza guy came and gave her the pizzas (some kind of organizational event is going on in the library). Anyways I told the pizza guy "hey, don't be flirting with my gf" and she loved every minute of it.

Sorry if all this is hard to follow. Not one word of this is fabricated. This is fukkin unbelievable. I had one date already today and now I just pulled another phone number while I was on the phone.

Bootcamp works people! Why do people give up? Why do so many people join and don't follow it EXACTLY?

This sh!t has literally made me a new man. My best friend who was on the phone, who has known me forever, was blown away by the changes in me. And this is only week 2!

Week 2 convo count: 4
total rejections: 1
phone numbers: 2

onward,

 

[TinyFzzyKiwi]

ya, i think im gona have to start over. right in the middle of week 1, school homework and sports picked up bigtime, so i had no time. so, im gona restart it and do it right.

 

[david90]

cool work EO. i'm not there yet but I have patience so i'll get there sooner or later/

 

[frivolousz21]

bump!

sorry for not posting guys...too busy with work and school

but i will soon

 

[Lifeforce]

It's the same with me, this next week is awful, four examns and driving license test, had two examns this week, sorry for neglecting this but I do not have time. You may have noticed I'm online more, I am here in my breaks and when I eat.

However, week after next I will join in with full force.

 

[Ever onward]

Should I give up a Bootcamp?

Ughhh I went to the Eye Doctor today. My contact lenses have been bothering my eyes. My Eye Doctor told me to stay out of my contacts for a few WEEKs and (hopefully) I'll be able to wear them again in a few weeks.

I hate wearing glasses! I look like such a dork!! How can I do Bootcamp properly if I'm wearing chick repellants?

I was doing so damn good too. Why can't things be simple? I was hoping to finish up week 2 tonight and tomorrow.

Anyways, I have 6 week 2 convos, 4 to go.

Frustrated and confused here...

 

[frivolousz21]

im glad Im not alone....i work 40 hours...have 3 classes..and its cardinals playoffs in stl.

and im a huge fan. they say to do the things you want and right now..im watching baseball.

but its not all bad..im dating 2 girls...well more like talking..ill practice on them till i can get out there


ever onward you are 27?

dont give up