What's up everyone.

I don't intend on posting a lot as I don't really have much to offer other than questions.

I'm new to pick-up and I have a question in an area I need help on. I need 30 posts to start a new topic and I don't want to spam up the boards by posting 29 useless comments trying to build that up.

A bit of what I know: I've read The Game, The Mystery Method, David Deangelo's Ebook and I am on day 5 of The Rules Of The Game.

I understand the interaction. But factual knowledge is no substitute for experience. As I am fairly new to "in-field" operation I am lacking that experience. I am confident enough to approach without any nerves hindering me and I do feel that I am more accepted than somebody who has no game at all. I peacock and time constraint always.

My question: This past weekend I went out and was fine opening sets. Example of what I did:

Me: Hey, you're a girl and I need you to answer a question.

Her: Okay

Me: I was talking to four girls down there (point) and they said I remind them of a guy called "Mr. Big" from Sex & The City. I don't watch the show so I wondered, is that a good thing or not?

Her: Yeah, it's a good thing.

Me: Okay cool. I got to get back to my group but my friend told me something pretty interesting. Check this out. My buddy has been going out with this girl for about three months. She happens to be bi. He was okay with that and things were going really well. Anyway they were in a bar a few days ago and he saw her talking to his ex girlfriend who also happened to be there. When she came back, he asked her how she knows his ex. Turns out, she happens to be his girlfriends ex too! Now he doesn't know how to feel about that. What do you think, you think he should carry on seeing her?

Her: (Laughed at story) Yeah, he should carry on.

Okay it's at this point were I tend to draw blanks. I run out of things to say and how to transition NATURALLY into another routine. So instead of making it awkward I bail and say:

Cool, anyway I should get back to my friends. Nice talking to you!

I figured that because that was were I kept on getting stuck I would just keep bailing at around that point if for nothing other than the experience.

Can somebody suggest a way for me to tackle this problem. Bear in mind that neither of us ever felt that uncomfortable creepy stranger guy feeling. So I guess the little that I did do, I did pretty well. Looking back I should have been body-rocking more. Also, although it was never uncomfortable, I didn't feel it was appropriate to initiate kino without becoming Mr. Touchy-Feely.

I wore a really cool chequered trilby and a lot of girls approached me and asked me to wear it or grabbed its brim. A story I came up with (just trying to be cocky) was that it was an actual hat worn by Usher which he threw into a crowd and I happened to catch. It worked.

Thanks guys and again, sorry for posting this here.

best bet is to post in the newbie questions area

Cant really be much more help than that though as you're probably on a similar level of game to me to be honest, although i always feel one long opinion opener or two short ones is about right and after that its kind of dragging itself out so making it into a situation you have to recover rather than progress from if that makes sense?

I couldnt help but feel from your example the second opinion lengthens it to the possible extent of being on the back foot to progress the conversation.

Yeah, what you said does make sense. That's what I thought going into it. I thought that the story is interesting enough to lead into a natural conversation. Nope. I have to lead the entire interaction until it's picked up. I guess it will only really start rolling once I turn the conversation into something about her. If I can provide her with a conversation lead about her, she should be able to run with it more naturally. So I guess the real trouble I'm having would be in the transitioning. How do I turn a story about my friend and his bi girlfriend into a topic that she will want to talk about? I need to get her engaged into the interaction enough for her to be volunteering information to me. I thought about going from the story into commenting on something she's wearing but that wouldn't be a very natural transition.

EDIT: I guess it would be better if I went on to talk about who lies more: Men vs Women.

From there I could ask her if she lies much and bust on her response: "You're wearing high-heels! You're not that tall!"

Honestly you guys, I think I spent too much time being concerned with knowing the routines and not enough time learning how to tie my routines together. They should be flexible enough to allow her to have an input, but if she doesn't have a great deal to say, they should be flexible enough for me to move on to another topic/routine/game naturally. Make sure you never underestimate the relevance of your segways.

I think we've found a solution to the problem Teaspoon. Thanks!