I have a new favorite magazine. Its called Radar and it has some hilarious articles in it. I found this one titled Awkward: 100 Ice Breakers to Avoid. And all of you thought that there were no good openers left.
Here are some of the funnier ones:
1. “You might recognize me from your window.”
4. “This bar used to be cool. Now it’s mostly losers.”
9. “I can see you’re not one of those ’shallow’ people who’s super-concerned about appearance.”
15. “Can you see my junk through these jeans? No? How about now?”
22. “Were those earrings given to you by a pimp because you’re his favorite baby doll?”
24. “Tell me honestly: Do I look like a rapist to you?”
32. “Bulimia. Pro or con?”
17. “Let’s talk about knives.”
36. “You really need to get gastric bypass surgery. Like, today.”
10. “Listen, my daughter needs a kidney real bad.”
For the rest of the list check out Radaronline.
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September 25, 2007
Those are so money!
September 25, 2007
How about: “I suppose your one of those uptight girls that hates stalkers”
good stuff.
September 25, 2007
Has anyone field tested these yet?
-Seraf
September 26, 2007
And while I’m here, I have a bit of a pick-up story of my own. This is probably the best I’ve ever done since first learning about the game.
Last Thursday I went to a multi-club gathering where speakers of every club were going up in front of an audience to talk about their club.
During one of the speakers time up in front of everyone, I noticed this cute girl asking the speaker a lot of questions. Physically she was cute, maybe about an 8 1/2, but what made me really attracted to her washer curiosity and ability to stand out by asking so many questions. He showed me she had personality.
Honestly I most likely would have pussied out of talking to her, but my friend gave me something to say to her: “All those questions you asked were very interesting.”
Not exactly your typical PUA opener, but I went up anyway as soon as the last speaker finished and the meeting was over. I applied the 3 second rule and approached her.
“I think all those questions you asked were very interesting.” I said.
Then I noticed standing right next to her the whole time was a mutual friend of ours, LN.
I asked LN, “Whose your friend?”
“This is RK” and she introduced us.
From there, PUA mode kicked in.
I forgot exactly what happened next cuz it all happened kind of fast. From there, we just kind of kicked off. We vibed really well.
I was doing all the PUA basics that I have learned up to this point: Balls busting, DHV (not using routines, but by showing off some of my spoken word poetry when someone in the group asked for a sample), Cocky Funny, Kino (went from hand shake, to high fives to touching her arm when we share a laugh) and negging.
There was one point where I turned my body away from her and to a friend and said, “can you believe this girl?” and as I said that, she put her hand on my shoulder and physically turned me around so that I was facing her again. She wanted my attention. She knew I was the Alpha Male here.
There were tons of moments where people from my club that I’m in tried to cock block me and talk to her while I was talking to her. However, me being the PUA that I am and knowing that they were all AFC, I fended all of them off.
There came a point where our mutual friend LN had to leave. She was RKs ride back to her friends apartments place.
At this point I didn’t exactly know what to do. I knew I had to get her number but I felt like I would be DLV if she would be the one to leave on me.
“…..unless Seraf can give you a ride…” I suddenly heard LN say.
Well well, whether she knew it or not, she was being my Wingwoman. She knew I had a think for RK since I approached her.
I told RK it was fine since I was heading back to my home town that night anyway, but I first had to go back to my dormitory to get my keys.
“Should I wait here?” she said.
I knew I couldn’t let her wait her. I would risk leaving her here for not only the AFCs to hit on her, but I could also lose some emotional momentum.
So I kino her lower back and said “come with me. I ain’t giving you a ride for free. You can help me carry some of my stuff to my car. Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.”
So she came with me to my dormitory. Now she is a Christian girl so I couldn’t exactly make that kind of move on her at my dorm. But while we were there, I did some more PUA stuff.
I showed her to things she could carry: A blue back pack and my lap top case.
“Choose one” I said.
“I don’t know” she responded.
“I don’t care, choose.”
She pointed to the lap top case.
So I gave her the blue backpack instead. She laughed at that.
While I was packing my computer, she told me “I need help setting up my internet around her.”
I had this girl hooked.
So I did what Alex did in his live street day game PUA video: I gave her my phone and said, “Put ur number in here.”
Then I went to pack some more stuff in my room as she put in her first name and her last initial as well as her number.
Anyway, I gave her a ride to her friend’s apartment, more balls busting and C&F on the way there, finished off the night with playful Kino: a secret handshake. I do that a lot.
Even tho I kicked into PUA mode, sometimes I would switch in between PUA and being myself (if there is such a thing. That’s the only way I can describe it really.) I would say 85% of the time I was PUA, then 15% myself.
NOW, The Problem.
I called her three days later on a sunday night. I used Call Back humor to rekindle our flames and it worked, but she had to go cuz she was working and she said she would call me.
She never did that day.
She called me the following day (Monday) to explain she got out of work at 10pm and didn’t kno what time I go to sleep. We chatted for a bit, read some lines off Magic Bullets (and it worked), and I told her I had to go cuz my friends was here but we should meet up around 1130 am tomorrow inbetween our classes.
So now it’s tuesday. She ends up cancelling the time to go somewhere with a friend, but she suggests meeting at 2pm instead. I say okay.
So I meet up with her AND the friend, not exactly what I wanted. I chatted with both of them for a bit and the friend eventually left.
Then it was me and her. I showed her some pictures from going out to dinner with friends from the previous night, but I accidentally flashed a picture of me kissing the last girl I dated on the cheek. Is that good? She didn’t say anything about it and I kinda said “forget that…” and went on to the other pictures.
Anyway, even tho I had minimal one-on-one time with her, I didn’t have a chance to do more routines (palm reading, magic).
She actually closed the meeting, saying “I need to get to work and YOU need to get to class” Which was true, I did have class at 2:30.
Anyway, I kno I want to ask her out, but I haven’t exactly known her that long. How long would u say u should kno a girl before asking her out?
-Seraf
September 26, 2007
September 26, 2007
great story.. you seem to be using all this stuff perfectly,
from the sound of it..you’re in… now you just have to get her out alone. Its not to soon to ask her to hang out. not at all.
keep me posted!
September 26, 2007
dont ask her to dinner though.. just ask her to do something casual with yuo..
September 27, 2007
How about this:
“You might recognize me from your window.”
[her confused reaction]
“I suppose you’re one of those uptight girls that hates stalkers”
[you laugh/smile then quickly go on to the DHVs/routines/stories]
September 27, 2007
Seraf,
My personal opinion is that you should have kissed her that initial night. Just because she is a good Christian girl doesn’t mean that she is a prude, and it’s only a kiss.
I think you are concentrating too much on the routines. Do them when there is dead air or you notice things are kind of at a halt.
There is a fine line between being cocky and being a dick. Don’t cross that line.
I think you are having the same problem I was having. Escalation… You need to progress the relationship with more kino and a statement of intent.
Tell her you think she is sexy. Let her know your intentions, or you will be caught in the friend zone.
As far as asking her out, there is no correct time to ask. What you should do is run into her somewhere randomly and then say something like. “I’m hungry, I think you’ll have to join me for lunch today.” Then put your arm out for her to join you.
Like from the movie “Cruel Intentions” in the beginning when he is leaving his doctors office.
If she says no or blows you off, make no big deal of it and formulate a new strategy.
Good luck and keep me posted!
September 27, 2007
“This bar used to be cool. Now it’s mostly losers.”
Ha…. this is gonna be a fun weekend!
September 28, 2007
September 28, 2007
Those lines are perfect for cock funny type stuff. I’d definitely see them getting a laugh.
November 21, 2007
Guess what? For the AFC’s, they are no-no’s to say! How ironic.. Happy PUA practice
January 6, 2008
Mike and Bobby,
I didn’t read your responses till now. Stuff has happened since RK.
I initially gave up after I felt I lost a ton of emotional momentum. She came to one of our club meetings. There was an AFC that tried to cockblock me the night I met RK.
He did it again, this time he succeeded in not only fucking things up for me, but fucking them up or himself too.
I invited her to three different places that night the AFC cockblocked me, but she declined all of them.
This was AWHILE back, maybe back in October. I forget when.
My game has become a lot tighter, well-tuned and calibrated since then.
I felt like chatting it up again with her towards the end of december, so I called her. She tells me she’s seriously considering becoming a model and dropping out of college with the ultimate goal of becoming an actress.
I tell her I have an ex who is a model that could try to help her out (She’s not really my ex, she is actually a close friend I have known since middle school. I just told RK she was my ex in order to convey pre-selection. My friend who is a model is in on my intentions, so she’s okay with me calling her my ex. Basically, she is my wingwoman).
We’ve been making small chat over text here and there, but I’m going to meet up with her again sunday.
Thanks for the advice Mike. I feel I need to make an intent with RK. Otherwise I’d be in the friend zone. I think that’s one of the parts that have been missing from my game (more specifically, my social circle game).
I have already used disqualifyers such as “you and I shouldn’t date.”
But I may have accidentally put myself in the friend zone cuz she kind of agreed when I used these disqualifyers.
I was thinking along the lines of “Hey, I wouldn’t be helping you with this whole model thing if I didn’t find you attractive,” in order to state my intent.
Honestly, at this point I don’t know exactly how to transition into taking her on a date. That’s always been another of my sticking points.
I was thinking of hanging out with her more (as in she hangs out in my tribe) until I finally say “hey, what are you doing wednesday? Nothing? Good, I’m taking you out on a date. We’re going Ice Skating.”
-Seraf
January 7, 2008
Final Update with RK.
Hung out last night. Got LJBFd. Won’t go into too much details.
All I did at the end of the night was kiss her on the cheek. Probably should have gone for the lips and get slapped/rejected than LJBFd.
-Seraf
January 12, 2008
Hi Seraf,
more luck next time. Was great to read your posts.
February 1, 2008
I guess this guy doesn’t read the seduction bible. If he had, he might still be in congress.
Quote,
“Wouldn’t this be real nice inside of you?”
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/15194251/detail.html
Beep..Beep…