Hey all,

This may have been posted before but I need some opinions on a new opener I have been tossing around in my head.

Basically it goes like this:

PUA: I need a girl's opinion on something, is it too tacky to break up with a girl through a phone call? My friend has been with this girl for 3 years and is thinking about ending it that way. It's really important because he is right outside so I have to tell him what to do ASAP.
HB: Blah Blah Blah
PUA: Well what about ending it via text (or in person or in a restaurant or with a letter).

Introduces an FTC (you have to go tell your friend what to do) and also has a lot of possibilities.

Let me know what people think, I would love to develop this further.

-Clever

whats funny is my 1st ex broke up via over the phone.

and my 2nd ex broke up via myspace message

This is a fairly common opener, though you have changed it up a bit. The normal version is "Hey guys, would you ever break up with someone using a text message?" A handy thing would be to have your friend (the one doing the breaking up) be a girl. Infact maybe not even a friend, just someone you know. It shows you have women in your life and also, generally I think women tend to make judgement on a person on their friends somewhat (I mean other guy friends MAINLY). Like once I said to a 2 set that was going ok something about my wing (who they hadn't met) wanting to hit someone, from then on it just went down hill, they didn't seem to like that and the bad impression I cast on my buddy made their opinion of me drop. It's a bit different but you get the idea, I'm probably just over-analysing yet again lol.

I will say though, try to keep the opener short, the way you wrote it down, you have already told them the whole story and all you'll get is "no that horrible" and no questions about how long they've been dating etc. Them asking questions back could also be considered IOIs (keeping the interaction going). Don't stay on the opener for too long though, after they've asked 1 or 2 questions about it and you've got your answer just move onto something else.

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i really don't like opinion openers -- they aren't direct enough. If you aren't direct it takes you soooo much longer than if you are.

I mean if you don't have much time or whatever and you're just looking for a number, then opinion openers work great, but otherwise i wouldn't suggest them.

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