10th August

Today I went out with the intention of being genuine and positive. I didn’t want to just go up to the girls and blurt out random compliments. I was going to chat to them and flirt.

Girl 1: 2 girls in Aldi, both nice. They were looking at cakes, I stepped into the situation - ‘Are you looking for some English cakes to try?’ They giggle and I tell them which cakes they should be buying. The target girl was preening her hair and loving all the attention. I tried to get her mate involved, but she was very shy, possibly as the target girl was trying to hog the attention. They decide they are going to crack on with their shopping, I go for her number, she has a boyfriend. Cheeky.

Girl 2: Girl walking past me on the high street grabbed my attention as she was so beautiful. I told her and she tried to walk on, so I carried along walking with her and finally got her to slow down to a stop. She said she was in a rush, but I ignored this and chatted some more. Finally she said she was going. I got her Facebook as she said she had no phone.

Girl 3: again moving target on high street, she had hot pants and lovely legs. Again this one tried to escape, but I ignored this getting her to stop. She stayed for a minute but claimed she had to meet a friend so she left, no number for me.

Girl 4: Girl in Aldi caught my eye, such a great hairstyle. I went over to tell her, she loved this and we chatted for a good 5 mins. She asked me questions which was a bonus, and I end up telling her I am going to take her out, so got her number.

Today my eye contact was a lot more solid, I tried not to look away when thinking and talking, as a result girl 4 seemed rather transfixed.

11th Aug - Day Game with a non-forum buddy.

So my mate had heard me chatting about picking up girls' number in the day and wanted to know more. He came to join me in town.

We went for a beer to relax ourselves and chat about stuff, i then thought about how he might be eased into the lion's den.

I told him I would approach a bird then he could watch what happened from afar. I spot a nice chick and head over. The interaction was decent athough she then decided her friend was ringing her and slipped away. Anyway, I told him this can happen but you learn to press on.

The poor lad was struggling to pluck up the courage. It really did remind me of the first time I tried approaching. Anyway, I do another girl in a shop and get her number. He could see that it could work, at least.

He's up for it again, I will have to get him into this, he has the will, particularly now he has had a taste. It would be pretty cool to have a sparring partner.

13th Aug

I was feeling pretty raw today, had a ridiculously heavy session on Sat night with the dnb blasting in my basement til the early hours, anyway.

Approached a couple of chicks and it bombed. I was probably too weak in my intent (of course they could always be in a shitty mood). Perhaps I looked like an oddball... who knows!

Girl 3: I was thinking of just fucking it off and going home and I see a cutie at the bus stop. I go over and comment on her hair. We have a nice chat, turns out she was on her hols in Manchester. I chat some more, then leave her.

Girl 4: After this I felt a little better and head into Quality Save to grab some rice. There was a lovely Japanese girl. I tell her she is distracting me from my shopping as she is so beautiful, and we chat about Manchester and drawing pictures. She doesn't try and escape, I number close, then she asks me what I do (this I am now learning is a great sign that she is interested). We chat some more, I head off.

Girl 5: Hot chick heads into Primark. I tell her she keeps catching my eye and had to come and say hello. We get into a cool conversation about food (a passion of mine). She says she has to go, I go for the number, she tells me she has a boyfriend and that's why she was trying to run off. Shame.

Girl 6: Nice girl with great body wandering through the Arndale. I ran up to catch her. I tell her I saw her and thought she was really beautiful. She loves this and we chat about Stockport and uni stuff. After a few minutes I tell her I need to go and would like to see her and get to know her better. I ask her name, take her hand and we chat whilst I continue to hold her hand. The tension builds and I let go of her hand telling her she has nice soft hands. she giggles and I take her hand again. I change the subject and continue holding her hand for another 20 seconds before getting her number. I chat a little more, then tell her to hug me. We hug and I give her a kiss on the cheek and let her go. She'd better not be flaky bloody pastry!!

Today i was trying to lean back more and allow them to speak. I wanted them to impress me and sell themselves to me more (flip the script). It's going to take practice to do this. Perhaps this will go some way to stopping my high flake rate. Although as I have addressed in another thread, my text game was fucking things up somewhat.

This is great stuff man.

Now that I'm living in Belfast, I should be doing a lot more of this daygame shizz.

Ive not yet stopped a girl in her tracks as she is walking, but I'm gunna go for it. Fuck it.

Try hitting on girls in the shops if you're phased at first by the moving targets.

I'm gonna try and limit the conversation time a little more to try and create more intrigue. The girl i was walking with and got the Facebk name off accepted my request and replied to my initial msg. This interaction was very short perhaps one minute tops. Interesting paradox when compared to the more solid feeling closes which have flaked.

Interesting paradox indeed.

She can gleam loads of info (for better or for worse) about you off Facebook though to slightly offset that lack of face-to-face. On negative side, maybe she is just a social network virtual "friends" adding addict, trying to reach 1000's of "friends".

Anyway, great reports -- stick at it, Nova!

as rebus said.. to me that just sounds like a girl who is bored and likes the attention and time wasting facebook can offer.

i very rarely think of a FB request acceptance and a reply as anything more than her maybe remembering who you are and manners.

not to say u can't woo her on there tho..

It's not that paradoxical in my opinion. The thing you've got to remember is you don't know what's going on with these girls. Their cat might have died, they might already be on and off seeing someone or in an LDR, they might be busy with work, or travelling, or blah blah blah. The point is when it comes to numbers there's a billion factors other than what you do that might affect it. You can mitigate this sometimes, but there's always flakes when you're going for numbers. Once you view it that way you realise it's nothing to really worry about.

This will be the second one I'm working on as a result of Facebook close in the daytime. However I might add in both instances there was a genuine reason for the Facebook. In the first case, we had no signal in Poundland so couldnt get her number up and as soon as we spoke on Facebook she gave me her number. In the second instance she had no phone as she arrived in UK a few days earlier (now she does apparently).

I guess the paradox for me comes from the lack of conversation with this second girl, not the lack of phone number. She is intrigued it seems. I need to work out how to play this.

ah thats cool then.

i'd probably talk to her about shit or something on facebook.

recently i've been dropping a wallpost like "hiii thanx 4 da add, jus wanted 2 say u r bewtiful xoxoxoxo".. usually gets a few likes as people know im taking the piss, her friends will talk about it like who is that guy and she'll tell you about it all.. of course it requires the girl to get the joke/mocking you're trying to do.