FR#17: Alternating P&S

Title: How to Overcome Street Game AA - Alternating P&S

Date: 2009-10-27 Tuesday

Place--Subway, St Marks Pl, Union Sq Park

Time--02:00

6 Approached

2 Hooked

1 #Closed

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I like the rain. It's mysterious and romantic - just not when I'm wearing canvass shoes and my feet are cold and wet.

I do not feel like going out, but I go. I am convinced today will be another AA day. Couple that with waiting forty minutes at Astor Pl only to not meet up with a wingman who had a broken phone, I am not feeling it.

In need of comfort food, I go to Dojo because that hot mom from the play date last week had raved about it. The food was extremely cheap and pretty good - although the veggie burger sort of tasted like sand (good sand though).

As I walk back to St Marks Pl, I realize I am wearing way too little. This is a good opportunity to get an awesome jacket. I enter a store on Broadway between 6th and 8th St. The sales associate is cute and I get her to give me opinions on jackets. I buy the more stylish jacket as I chat her up and she tells me to come around and hang out.

I'm feeling a bit better, but when I get to St Marks, I am too nervous to approach. Bootcamp comes (I feel bad calling him ShortAsian - plus, he is taller than I am). We walk around, chat, hesitate a lot, then decide to get down to it. We stake out a stoop at St Marks, but again we hesitate.

Suddenly, I see a cute Asian and run after her. She heads into a Japanese grocery and I follow. "Excuse me, uhhhh..." She glares at me and walks away. Gotta love it!

Bootcamp and I decide to alternate, but as I point out a girl and he stands, he hesitates.

St Marks is winding down, so we head to Union Sq Park. We've warmed up a bit and start alternating approaches on the way up. I talk to a Japanese girl, him an Indian. I talk to a girl on her iPod, he to someone else.

My opener here is, "Hey, I saw you as I was walking by - you have a gorgeous face and I had to come and talk with you." Later, Krishna points out that I'm giving her too much value with this. If I insist on opening with a compliment, I should say something like, "I saw you as I was walking by - you're pretty cute. Do you have a cool personality to back up that smile?"

As we walk through Union Sq Park, a girl on her phone gives me crazy eye contact. I let it go, but we loop around when we see empty streets and Bootcamp encourages me to talk to her. Krishna later advises that the fact I waited so long devalued me quite a bit. When I get the first or second eye contact, I need to go in.

I compliment her on her eyes and we fluff for a minute. She asks me to wait a minute for her to finish up on the phone. I wait like a chump until Bootcamp came and said we had to go.

I'm grateful to get out of there. As soon as she wanted to get back on the phone, I should have said, "My friend and I need to get going. We'll grab some coffee this weekend. What's the best way to contact you?"

Bootcamp then opens a girl wearing a furry coat and earmuff headphones. He number closes and 10 minutes later gets a text from her! Unfortunately, Bootcamp isn't really attracted.

A Korean with a sketch pad crossing the street gives me eye contact. Usually, I do not get this much eye contact. I think it's my jacket. Bootcamp nudges me at her and I sprint across the street. She's very sweet and after a few minutes, she puts her umbrella over me. "This sounds like an excuse," she says, "but art students are really busy. Here's my number though - you can actually call me later." I hope she doesn't flake.

In the meantime, Bootcamp opens a girl about her boots, fluffs, then finds out she's meeting a guy. I think he could have closed her, though - she apparently never said boyfriend.

Bootcamp leaves, so I grab some food and meet up with Krishna. By this time, it's raining hard and nobody is around. We walk around Whole Foods, then catch the train back to Queens.