Last friday I completed my first REASONABLY GOOD pickup. I go to clubs a lot and before getting into this stuff properly I had a few fool's mates, but I never saw them again. After reading Mystery Method I realised I wasn't building comfort and rapport nearly enough (I thought making out with a girl real quick and barely speaking to her was the way to do it lol.) I'm going to go into detail and brag and stuff because hey, I've never been confident with women and it FEELS GOOD MAN.

I was at my favourite local club, and as university had started again recently a lot of freshman students were there and the place was crowded with attractive women. I got talking to a few girls but I got majorly cockblocked by my drunk friend (it was his birthday.) Eventually I managed to get away from him and was scouting the place (probably like a creepy predator) and a girl literally bumped into me. She was very pretty, about an 8 and she smiled at me and apologised, without even thinking about it I said "Hey, did you just grab my ass?" and smiled back at her. I think I'd recently read that part in The Game where Grimble uses that opener.

To my surprise she laughed and we got talking, though this was hampered by loud music. Pretty soon she moved closer and was giving a LOT of kino and we ended up kissing and making out in the queue for drinks. Normally I'd think "AWESOME!" but this time I was frustrated because I didn't want a fools mate, I wanted to be different, I wanted her to remember me. So I stopped her and said "Whoa, are you always this forward? I need a lot trust and comfort first" she apologised and told me she thought I was goodlooking, I carried on busting her and being cocky and said I was high maintenance, needed to be wined and dined etc. All with a smile. She struck me as kind of low-self esteem so I decided I wasn't going to neg her very much, if at all. Is that generally a good tip? Or is the neg universal?

After getting drinks (she paid for hers) I said "We can hardly hear ourselves think, let's go upstairs to the quiet bar... But all I can promise is good conversation for now" and without waiting for her to reply I grabbed her hand and led her upstairs and we sat down on a couch together (I'm getting a lot better in clubs

Normally in this situation I'd do boring talk about what we do etc and lose it. But this time I was armed with interesting stuff that would hold her attention, because I don't think I'd quite gotten a solid hook on this girl yet. I did the cube on her, albeit not a particularly smooth version because I haven't used it often, but I managed to make her laugh rather a lot by telling her that it meant stupid stuff before telling her the real analysis etc and she said my reading was fairly accurate (yeah, she was definitely low self-esteem, small cube.)

I also did the ESP trick of guessing her number between 1 and 10 and the rings routine. By now she was really enjoying my company, she was American and as we were chatting and getting to know each other she expressed an interest in English history, and at this point I was able to DHV immensely with my knowledge of an area she had an active interest in. By this point she was hanging on to my every word and when I fell silent she was starting things up again by saying "So..." and asking questions etc.

I'd already kissed her, so didn't really need to kiss-close, but I used Mystery's kiss-close anyway (never fails me) and we made out a lot and really got quite physical. Then I walked her back to her bus stop, made out some more and exchanged numbers and she texted me right away. I went on a date with her yesterday that went extremely well due to stuff I'd read from David DeAngelo and she wants to see me again tomorrow night

I want to stress that despite a few routines and stuff from David DeAngelo, it was mostly basic principles in ways to behave and act rather than a contrived falsehood. I didn't feel comfortable with canned material as I initially thought it false, but I want to stress that I was totally myself during the comfort building I just utilised a few tools to capture her imagination, just to dispel a few myths to AFCs that think this stuff is fake etc. I'm sure most of you don't though.

Anyway, that was a really long post. But I finally feel I am making true progress, Mystery's stuff might be a tad outdated these days (not really sure if it is since I am new) but it definitely works