OK so I went out tonight to a pub with a couple of AFCs, not intending to PU at all. Anyway, I was pre-warned by said AFCs that the pub was really full so I thought I might as well chance my game (it's practice!) so got in the mood for it. We arrived and there was lots of talent around so I met my friends and sat down outside. Almost immediately I noticed a 5 set of girls ranging from HB7's-9's so I took a sip of my drink, excused myself and approached. Now as a relative newbie it may surprise some that my issue is not the approach, I generally feel no fear (except a pleasent adrenaline rush) and I think I open pretty well; I put an FTC on and immediately had them all laughing with the 'If a gay guy finds you attractive do girls find you attractive' line and we fluffed a bit etc.
I then went into an ESP routine, intending to do it with my target (smoking hot blond HB9) but since I now seemed to have all of them enraptured, each giving various IOI's I was like a kid in a candy shop - I didn't know who I was trying to game! They all played the ESP game and it worked on nearly all of them - they were impressed. I then used Style's 5 lies thing and that worked nicely as well. By this time they were begging me to do more so I threw a couple of negs - particularly to the blonde who had fallen spectacularly for the 5-lies game.
Then I had a major problem, 4 guys, all AMOGs who were bf's/friends came up and I didn't know what the hell to do - I had already done the comfort routines, I was already sitting down I couldn't really endear them to me (they didn't seem the friendliest of guys anyway!) so I did what any AFC would do and left, thinking I would hit on the girls later.
Bad idea; this must have immediately lowered my value hugely because when I next approached the HB9 and her friend (also HB9) I got massive bitch shields and was just cut out (if I had had time I could have overcome this but my wit wasn't sharp enough to respond). I am also thinking that a lack of kino was a major issue. Apart from that can anyone think about what I could have done to disarm the AMOGs or what I could have done to improve generally?
Really frustrated with myself, despite my AFC friends telling me how much 'respect' they had for me (
), I still feel like I totally fucked it up and was reluctant to approach other sets for fear of not knowing how to transition properly etc. I must add that it was only my second time out sarging but I set myself such high standards in all areas of my life that it really got on my tits (it happened on Friday as well when I went out, although I did get 1 n-close and 1 k-close then, probably more by luck than judgment though).
Sorry for the long post, thanks in advance for anyone who responds!
CHAT