My brother and I both went to the mall the other night wearing hats and sunglasses inside.
We were stopped by two girls trying to sell us stuff...some kind of hand cream or something.
One was pretty cute, like HB7, the other a 5. Anyway, the 7 used all of her girly cute girl charms to try and get me to buy...but I didn't budge. My brother occupied the 5.
He was telling me what she was saying to him:
5: Take off your sunglasses.
Bro: why?
5: I want to see what color your eyes are.
Bro: I can't take them off for 2 reasons...
5: What?
Bro: 1 - we just met and I don't know you that well and 2 I never take off my sunglasses anyway.
At this point, she was really into him.
Then he left. (JERK)
That left me with the 5 and the 7. I told them I wouldn't
be buying, but they should write down their emails and
I'll follow up with them. (Corny, I know).
The 5 did it and handed me the paper. I then turned to the
7 and asked her if she actually used the product she was
selling on her nails.
7: Yes, of course.
Me: Let me see! (I grab her hand and touch each fingernail individually, mmm kino!)
Me: Hmm, it looks like you have dirt under that nail (I point to pointer finger)
7: huh? (she looks at hand) Oh, that' chocolate
Me: Chocolate?! How'd you manage that?
7: ::laughs::
I can see her starting to show some IOI's.
Then I turn it up a little bit with the line from Mystery, even though
I thought I wouldn't use it.
Me: Do you know you blink a lot?
7: I do?
Me: Yeah, your eyes are just...(I bring my fingers and thumbs together 3 times really fast, mimicking a fast blink.)
7: Maybe I need glasses
I turn to the 5 and stick to the material.
Me: Is she always like this?
5: ::laughs:: yeah
7: :

:
I've turned my back to the 7 then she says to me:
7: What's your name?
Me: Bounty, what's yours?
7: Adi
Me: What? What kind of name is that?
7: Stop, it's Israeli (At this point she runs both hands through
her hair, makes a ponytail, let's it down and smile directly at
me...I love easy to read IOI's!
7: Here, let me write it down for you. (She takes the paper the 5 had given me.
Me: Go ahead and write down your email address too in case I want to email you personally.
7: Yeah, for sure.
At this point I could have gotten her phone number, but I felt bad for the 5.
Looking back, maybe I should have gotten both #'s. But, I'm emailing the girl tonight so we'll see what happens.
I forgot to mention that instead of using a False Time Constraint I was using a real one. I had to leave and kept asking them what time it was as they ran through their sales speech.
I also think looking the 7 in the eye (with shades on!) and telling her straight up "No, I won't be buying this, but good try anyway" really opened the door for me. She seemed more interested in me from this point.
But I said all that to say this: With or without shades, it's the confidence level. I never thought I could get 2 girls email address wearing sunglasses and a giant hat at the mall within 10 minutes...especially cute girls hired to sell people stuff as they walk by.
It's funny how this stuff works.
Next Goal - # close!