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The chick you don't know with no common friends algorithm
- Thread starter machine gewehr
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And some chicks use fake names, or are just as content not knowing yours. Those are the ones you keep calling back 'Uh, hey you, wanna get busy?' 'Hell yeah!'
You must be having sleepless nights as to what happened so here's a status update.
I was gonna talk to her yesterday,the moment was right but my stomach was not.I got reflux and other serious problems with my stomach so I was most likely gonna belch on her face so I didn't go to her.
However,I added her on facebook last night with a message saying that I was gonna buy her a coffee but she missed it (I needed a few mins till the belching session was over
) but the offer is still valid.
She accepted 5 mins later,but still is silent.
I was gonna talk to her yesterday,the moment was right but my stomach was not.I got reflux and other serious problems with my stomach so I was most likely gonna belch on her face so I didn't go to her.
However,I added her on facebook last night with a message saying that I was gonna buy her a coffee but she missed it (I needed a few mins till the belching session was over
) but the offer is still valid.She accepted 5 mins later,but still is silent.
Hahaha. Typical man advice. "Be straight forward and direct". WRONG.
Be that casual acquaintance she sees around, don't be a friend. When you see her out at the bar/show/party with her friends walk up to her friend and say hi and introduce yourself to her before acknowledging the girl you're actually interested in. This instantly sparks jealousy on an unconscious level ("why did he say hi to her first? I'm better than her").
These things are easy and crucial for the following reasons.
1) you never get put in the friend zone because you are never a "friend"
2) if you come right out and say you want her, she will instantly have the upper hand and think "I can have him if I want him, do I want him?" and make you seem like you have no other girl prospects.
3) the instant you spark her rivalry fuse at the bar/show/etc, she will think "I want him, I don't want my friend to have him" and make her feel that you are attractive/smooth enough that you wont care if she's around or not.
Getting the girl is very different behavior than keeping the girl, getting the girl takes convincing her subconscious that she wants you. Not just hoping she does.
Be that casual acquaintance she sees around, don't be a friend. When you see her out at the bar/show/party with her friends walk up to her friend and say hi and introduce yourself to her before acknowledging the girl you're actually interested in. This instantly sparks jealousy on an unconscious level ("why did he say hi to her first? I'm better than her").
These things are easy and crucial for the following reasons.
1) you never get put in the friend zone because you are never a "friend"
2) if you come right out and say you want her, she will instantly have the upper hand and think "I can have him if I want him, do I want him?" and make you seem like you have no other girl prospects.
3) the instant you spark her rivalry fuse at the bar/show/etc, she will think "I want him, I don't want my friend to have him" and make her feel that you are attractive/smooth enough that you wont care if she's around or not.
Getting the girl is very different behavior than keeping the girl, getting the girl takes convincing her subconscious that she wants you. Not just hoping she does.
You must be having sleepless nights as to what happened so here's a status update.
I was gonna talk to her yesterday,the moment was right but my stomach was not.I got reflux and other serious problems with my stomach so I was most likely gonna belch on her face so I didn't go to her.
However,I added her on facebook last night with a message saying that I was gonna buy her a coffee but she missed it (I needed a few mins till the belching session was over
She accepted 5 mins later,but still is silent.
Way to puss out. Nice passive aggressive maneuver. Fail on all counts. I couldn't go talk to her in person so I'm going to add her in facebook. You might as well walked over to her with LAME sharpied on your forehead.
Read 'Mastering the Art of Selling' by Tom Hopkins.
If you don't think this is a sales job, you are really missing the
boat.
Random asking does produce results, it is a numbers game. True.
However ...
Tommy points out that you can improve your closing percentages
with the way you present your closes, and
gives specific techniques for how to present closes.
Test closes are also very important. They give you an immediate
read on whether you are headed in the right
direction. In this case, a good test close qualifies interest.
Without her interest, you are flattering her ego (wasting your
time) or ending up in the dreaded friend zone (wasting your time).
Test close well my friend, and end up in the end zone, not the friend zone.
If you don't think this is a sales job, you are really missing the
boat.
Random asking does produce results, it is a numbers game. True.
However ...
Tommy points out that you can improve your closing percentages
with the way you present your closes, and
gives specific techniques for how to present closes.
Test closes are also very important. They give you an immediate
read on whether you are headed in the right
direction. In this case, a good test close qualifies interest.
Without her interest, you are flattering her ego (wasting your
time) or ending up in the dreaded friend zone (wasting your time).
Test close well my friend, and end up in the end zone, not the friend zone.
Well the timing was so right that and as she [DEL](I)[/DEL] missed that chance I felt it had to be that day.At least the message I sent her was no way wussy.Its her loss anyway.
I know this thread is now past the actually introducing yourself to her stage, but I'd like to tell a story. During my freshman year of college I was overcoming a lot of social boundaries I had in high school, and one of the largest ones was talking to girls.
There was this girl that I saw all the time and I thought she was absolutely beautiful. She looked like everything I was interested in. However, I had no "in" with her. I had no relation to her at all, no friends, nothing that we really shared other than that we ate at the same cafeteria. Being not so desperate for her, but still finding her rather beautiful, I just kept my distance and admired her whenever I saw her (but never stared or did anything creepy.)
One day during finals week though, the cafeteria was taking particularly long to open in the morning for breakfast. So, waiting outside the door was myself and, it just so happened, this girl that I had been admiring all semester. I thought about approaching her and argued with myself for a bit, thought hard about what I would say, and eventually just threw it all out of my mind, along with my cares, and just walked over and started talking to her, just casually, about how it was taking them awhile to open the cafeteria, how we had finals to get to, blah blah blah. Then the cafeteria opened, we went separately and got our food, and I went and asked if I could sit with her, she said sure and we talked over breakfast. I found out she had a boyfriend, about her major, about how she was probably transferring and all sorts of things like that, but it was an overall pleasant exchange and at the end she asked me if I liked going to shows. I said of course and she gave me her number and then we both left for our finals.
I never called her, or really ever talked to her or even saw her again, but I felt extremely accomplished. I still have the piece of paper with her number on it, and I'm extremely proud of how I acted that day. I learned a lot from it.
There was this girl that I saw all the time and I thought she was absolutely beautiful. She looked like everything I was interested in. However, I had no "in" with her. I had no relation to her at all, no friends, nothing that we really shared other than that we ate at the same cafeteria. Being not so desperate for her, but still finding her rather beautiful, I just kept my distance and admired her whenever I saw her (but never stared or did anything creepy.)
One day during finals week though, the cafeteria was taking particularly long to open in the morning for breakfast. So, waiting outside the door was myself and, it just so happened, this girl that I had been admiring all semester. I thought about approaching her and argued with myself for a bit, thought hard about what I would say, and eventually just threw it all out of my mind, along with my cares, and just walked over and started talking to her, just casually, about how it was taking them awhile to open the cafeteria, how we had finals to get to, blah blah blah. Then the cafeteria opened, we went separately and got our food, and I went and asked if I could sit with her, she said sure and we talked over breakfast. I found out she had a boyfriend, about her major, about how she was probably transferring and all sorts of things like that, but it was an overall pleasant exchange and at the end she asked me if I liked going to shows. I said of course and she gave me her number and then we both left for our finals.
I never called her, or really ever talked to her or even saw her again, but I felt extremely accomplished. I still have the piece of paper with her number on it, and I'm extremely proud of how I acted that day. I learned a lot from it.
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I was gonna say, send her an email. But yeah, Facebook is much better.
Next step, anonymous expensive gifts! Link Removed
Major Fail
She left the door wide open for you. What do you need, an
engraved invitation?
I know it was way in the past, but perhaps some unfortunate
male can learn from this mistake.
Howzit go?
Ask, and it will be given you;
Seek, and you shall find;
Knock, and the door shall be opened to you.
The Thor Corollary:
Fail to ask, and you won't get squat;
Don't seek, and you won't find shinola;
Don't knock, and the door will slam you in the head.
It never fails to amaze me that guys... aw heck, I think
I am talking to myself already. If I was your age, I would be
deadly.
No doubt this is true for many of us. The trick none of us have figured out is how to be his age AND have the experience and knowledge that we currently possess. It seems that Father Time has things programmed so that youth and wisdom are mutually exclusive. The best us experienced guys can do is to offer our wisdom to the younger generation, sit back, and watch them still flail about until they figure it out for themselves.
In short...youth is wasted on the young.
The message might not have been but the delivery came wearing a nice little bo peep dress. Don't justify it by putting it in her court and saying her loss. YOU putzed out on this one. YOU failed to walk up to her confidently and ask her for a date/number. Facebook is secondary at best after you've already established the initial connection.
I predict the next thread will be how to get out of the friend zone because this is where you promptly placed yourself.
Start a conversation with her first unless you know for sure you have a connection then just ask her out and go from there last thing you would want is to express your feelings and she is a weirdo get to know her.
Welcome to TB. Enjoy the ride!
By the way, a reasonable attempt at punctuation makes things a lot easier to understand.
to further piggyback on what everyone else has said, when I was younger all I ever cared about was getting girls. That was it. On top of that, I always worried about what people thought of me. What I looked like, what I wore, what my hand gestures were. So I always kept myself up, always looked good, and chicks always gravitated toward me. But It never got too much further than that, because I was too awkward and worried about how I would look. To quote the great Jon Lajoie, I was "nervous in social situations."
Now that I'm a little older and married, with absolutely no sense of pride or shame, and without wanting to bed many, many women as I once wanted to, I find it very easy to talk to any and everybody I come across, man and woman alike. Of course, I politely decline the further services of women who offer it, but what I learned is...don't care. OR at least don't seem to care. The womenfolk will see that, and get infuriated that they aren't number one on your radar, and will do whatever it takes to be #1
Now that I'm a little older and married, with absolutely no sense of pride or shame, and without wanting to bed many, many women as I once wanted to, I find it very easy to talk to any and everybody I come across, man and woman alike. Of course, I politely decline the further services of women who offer it, but what I learned is...don't care. OR at least don't seem to care. The womenfolk will see that, and get infuriated that they aren't number one on your radar, and will do whatever it takes to be #1
Yea yea I know I failed,for once my best friend asked me to listen to him and send a message "that night",and I listened to him for the first time ever...
Nah,there won't be an another thread,feel free to post the cheese on the head failcat,I desereved it.:scowl:
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