What if the shoes you wear are velcro?
And if pinnochio said his nose was about to grow what would happen?
Consider yourself bamboozled.

I want to ammend what I said - when someone is approached by someone of the opposite sex, that someone is either interested, or exceptionally friendly. People like that.

Ah ha! . . . Yes, STUDYING is a great idea; not only for confidence having to do with the situation topic of this thread but for the betterment of ourselves. An orgasm is an incredible gift.

For some reason, your initial post gave me images of the OP fumbling around with a blow up doll, a foot pump, and a 2 page manual.

Personally, I wonder about this sometimes too, but I'm also the guy that'll talk to anyone/anytime/anywhere.

For example, I was in a financial aid meeting at my college that promised to be a long one and the woman doing my paperwork was very pissed to be dealing with me (I was someone else's problem in her eyes), so I ignored it and just answered the questions put to me in a very straight forward manner. After the first hour, though, I decided I was bored and I wanted someone to talk to.

So I started talking. By the end of the third hour she was eating out of my hand. When I left she literally did not have the words to describe "how pleasant it was to meet you". Now, had she been an HB or any level above a 2, I'd have been in like Flynn.

This got me thinking that this is a very common occurrence in my life. People that I want to like me, usually do, and strongly. My biggest problem is getting the HBs out there to not only like me as a cool guy, but want to bed me as a hot guy (getting better at it though!), because they all think I'm a cool, sweet guy (the curse that brings 99% of future PUAs into the fold).

Basically, my advice is to make a game out of it with everyone. Try to make EVERYONE enjoy talking to you all the time (men and women alike), just to kill the time. A big part of the reason most people that don't know each other talk to each other is to kill time. Standing in the line at the bank or grocery store, waiting for a movie, sitting in a boring class, and pretty much everywhere else two people that don't know each other will be within a couple feet of each other. You'll likely never see these people again, but you never know. Can't tell you how many times I've chatted someone up out of boredom, only to run into them somewhere else months later and then you have immediate rapport. Even if they don't remember you, and you don't remember them, subconsciously you do and you have this weird bond that makes another conversation so much easier and more fluid.