Location: North Beach, San Francisco
Date: May 11th, 2008
Objective: Get sarging again
Outcome: Got sarging again, no closes

Some of you may have read my tale of woe in the PUA Lounge about the oneitis situation I had with my new roommate.

Tonight I arranged to meet some friends for drinks in North Beach. Straight into the bar I planted myself at the bar (without wrecking the room) beside a 2-set, 6 and 8, next to HB6 where there was room. After ordering a Red Bull I stood for another while and eventually opened HB6 on a comment HB8 was making about something she saw on the TV.

That little warmup set went well while I waited for my buddy to show up. HB8 mentioned her bf fairly soon though. After my buddy arrived I kinda drifted in and out of that set while chatting to him. Soon we moved away from them. I was thinking about opening some more sets but succumbed to AA.

We bounced to a more upscale bar. On the way I stopped into a fudge store for free samples where I opened a young 2-set just for a bit of practice. No big deal, carried on. Might have been able to work it better but could have ended up looking like I was trying too hard if I'd stuck around.

At the upscale bar my 2nd friend joined us. There was a 6-set, all 8 and above, having a boisterous party. After about 15 minutes I opened up on a HB9 asking her what the occasion was, it was a birthday party. I ran a routine which seemed to hold her interest, ignoring one of her friends who seemed interested in getting into the conversation, but after that I lost her as her attention turned back to her friends who were having a great time watching one of two dudes who were totally working the set jumping around an dancing like comedians. She eventually got up and danced so I let her go and went back to my friends.*

We bounced to another bar where a little set opened for us with some HB7s but I didn't get involved, I didn't consider them hot enough to bother working on since they were a bit bottom-heavy.

Then it was off to a restaurant for food and then home.

*Post-mortem: Need to work on my inner game. I wanted to transition to another routine but didn't have any handy, I think I could have held this one better if I had more material at the ready. I got DHVs in but no real effective negs, and I had no sense of having built any attraction. When her friend showed interest I should have brought her into the conversation and developed the set better.

On the plus side, I had just one drink all night, the rest was soda water or Red Bull. This Red Bull is helping me to overcome the 'oh boy I'm tired I think I wanna go home' syndrome.