Saturday

I rock out of my apartment all showered and feeling pretty damn dapper in my cool new shoes. I walk into Next and this girl working in there stares at me with her mouth open and says hey. I walk over to the jeans and catch her looking over. I go over and ask her about some jeans I’m looking for. Her eyes are amazing, so fucking big. After a pointless but flirtatious conversation about jeans, her boss comes over and tells her it’s her break, I then leave. I should have suggested we go for a coffee.

An hour later I go back in the store and go right up to her and tell her I love her eyes. She’s all giggly and shy, and walks away around the jeans rack, still hoping I’ll continue talking though. I continue getting to know her, and then she tells me I should know she’s ‘kinda seeing someone’. I then bailed the scene. Should have carried on, I lost my nerve.

I then met up with Luther for a spot of day game action. We’d only been chatting for 1 minute and Luth had legged it over to a girl. He rejoined me and, after only 30 seconds of more chat he was off again. Something that struck me as I watched on was his persistence. Both girls tried to walk off past him, but he wouldn’t let them.

Beyond the Next girl I had a couple of decent interactions with average/cute looking girls. These were fun interactions and the girls were very comfortable with me. I finally got to chat with Luth, great lad. The evening came and I caught up with Dice over some real ale and metal in town.

Sunday

I left the house and was feeling a little groggy, but just accepted it rather than let it in the way, the cobwebs usually blow away once I’m in front of a girl! I wander around the shops, then spot a very cooly dressed Japanese girl. I approach her, and she doesn’t quite stop, I persist, she stops. We click instantly, and she is completely comfortable with me holding her hand. I lead her to the bar for a beer.

I get cosy with her and the sexual tension builds as I’m right in her space. She tells me about a road trip she went on in America, I ask her who she went with, she told me her housemate… and that her husband drove. She seemed to just be notifying me in passing, and then said something about him emailing her less from Japan. Over the course of the date I tried to kiss her a few times, but only got a peck on the lips from her. The husband was never mentioned again. As I departed the scene I hugged her and thought I’d kiss her on the cheek, she went for my lips, and gave me a sexy longing look as I let go of her hand. I think this girl might want a little bit of fun while she’s here in England.

I then hit Aldi for my groceries and naturally see a couple of cute Asians to approach. I end up whipping out my shopping list and telling them all about new recipes I was going to try that night, and they got well into it. Funny.

Lessons? Luther opened up my mind to persistence, and how the boundaries are probably not as close or fixed as I tend to assume, particularly when a girl doesn’t stop straight away. I had unreal comfort with girls this wkd, could probably take some more risks next wkd and escalate faster.