Right, never posted a field report before so here it goes:
Me and a group of friends went on a massive Pub Crawl on Xmas Eve, so by the time we got to a certain pub we were rather drunk.
I saw the glass collector, and she was cute, made some solid eye contact a couple of times in the pub, each time I smiled, she would blush and look down then back up.
Anyway, we went on to the next pub, but i quickly got bored so I went back to the previous pub, had a pint, as soon as i was ready to leave i went to the bar, beckoned her over, and said straight
"Look, I'm not going to beat around the bush, I saw you earlier and I think you are cute, whats your number?"
She says very little and walks off, telling me to wait, she comes back with her mobile number on some kitchen towel, so i say i'll text you and say Merry Christmas
Which I did, (i also had to text her my name, as i overlooked that part), and set up a date for Wednesday
So i guess sometimes direct can work, although I'm still a massive fan of Indirect Game.