Hey all,

I was on the train heading back home from the city on New Years day, I saw this smoking hot Indian girl get on the train and sit down in the lower level (I was sitting upstairs with my buddies).

The upstairs and downstairs levels are continuous and you can see the bottom from the top, and vice versa. So anyway, my buddies and I were trying to piece together the previous night, and I could tell this girl downstairs was listening to some of our hilarious stories. So after the person sitting next to her got up at a stop, I decided I had to talk to her.

I couldn't think of anything clever to say so I sat down next to her and said 'My friends and I made a bet last night, to see who could make the most friends...so I just wanted to say hi, I'm Dave' (we actually did make that bet).

Afterwards we made some small talk and I made fun of her once or twice but she seemed kinda nervous. Turns out we have 30 or so mutual friends since she went to the same undergrad school I did. I wussed out and didn't ask for her number, but before I left I said something like: 'i saw you get on the train, and I knew i had to talk to you... so it was nice to meet you!'

And then I just walked away to go back upstairs. So anyway I sent her a facebook friend request a couple days later, and I'm assuming she'll stalk me a little so she'll probably like what she sees. One of my friends that was on the train with me posted a video up on my wall though (absolutely hilarious), along with the message 'You should have done this to pick up that cute girl on the train:' I can't post videos yet but basically it was a parody of a completely creepy guy trying to pick up a girl by writing 'I like to touch butts' on a massive notepad and showing it to her.

So anyway After she accepted my friend request, I commented on the post my buddy put up on my wall and tagged her in it: "There's no way this wouldn't have worked, right NAME? hahah"

She responded right away, and said "haha no, most definitely not...loll would have been entertaining tho!"

then "ohh and i like the reference to me as 'that cute indian girl'...morning after nye, i'll take it!"

I posted this in the Field Report forum but since I'm heading to a different state today for 2 or 3 months, everything from here on out will be online game.

Anyone have any ideas on what my next move to be? I was thinking liking her post on my wall, then sending her a message saying something like "so how often do cute, hungover guys hit on you on the metra?"

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-Dave

Hmm. I'd just invite her out with me the next time I went to do something that I liked. Kind of a, "Hey, I'm going to go [whatever]. Would you like to join me?" I like it because you're going to do this thing (whatever it is) with or without her. Kind of like buying a car. She's just an option that you get when you buy the better trim. I mean, it's nice to have heated leather seats, but without them, the car will still go. lol

I hope you didn't want anything more specific.

Thanks for the response! That's a really good idea, but unfortunately I'm going back to grad school, which is in a different state than the one she's going to. So I won't see her again for a while, that's why I kinda wanted to keep in touch through facebook messages.

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-Dave

Ah ok. I guess I missed that the first time through your post. Sorry. lol

But if you have her number or facebook or whatever just keep in touch. It's hard not to go too heavy on the social sauce when you're doing so, but keep in mind that you're just "reminding her you're there" and trying to keep things sexual. It's okay to say hello and tease her about a few things, but you're a busy guy. You've got stuff to do. Make an excuse to break the interaction before she can. Facebook chat and texting are bad, but for long distance, it's kind of necessary. Let her contact you more than you contact her as well. It'll happen if she's into you and/or comfortable with you as a friend. Trust me.

Great post, can you make it back to her state at some point for a weekend? If you could get some comfort going with her online then perhaps you could think of something exciting you both want to do a month out when you'd be in town and then you'd have that to talk about at least in the mean time.

Just gotta make sure she doesn't thinking you'd be traveling just to see her. You have something else important to do there but happen to have some free time too!