Objective: F-close or at least lay the groundwork for an f-close in the near future

Target: Met her online a few months ago. We went out once on a dinner date which was boring and unspectacular. I tried to set up a second date with her, but she flaked out at the last minute, because she just got off work and was tired. I had some other stuff going on, so I just forgot about her and moved on. To my surprise, she texted me a few weeks later, and now I’ve set up another date with her for Thursday night.

Background: She comes off fairly conservative, but she's told me she likes to drink beer (but not to get drunk). I also once asked her an innocent question about her bed, and she replied, "Why do you want to know "

What's the best course of action for getting to my objective?

She moved into a new place recently, and I’ve been asking to see pictures, but her phone is acting weird, and the pictures don’t get sent. I heard that girls are more likely to allow you entry into their place if you’ve been there before and nothing’s happened. So my brilliant plan is when I pick her up, I’ll ask to quickly take a look at her room and then just as quickly leave for the bar or restaurant.

I'm struggling with whether I should take her to dinner and then have drinks after, or just forget about dinner and go right to drinks. Once at the bar, I plan to escalate kino as much as possible, but I’m reluctant to try to do the k-close in a public place. Instead, I think my best bet is to somehow ask if we can go watch a movie at her place. I haven’t figured out exactly how I’ll do this, but I’m hoping that we each have at least two drinks, and when there’s a lull in the conversation, or we start tiring of the bar, I can ask then.

So that’s my plan so far. Any suggestions or advice?

Woah woah, inviting yourself back to her place for a movie can potentially not go over well if it comes across like that.

I like the idea of her feeling comfortable with you in her home. But naturally when you pick up a girl and she has a new place to show off she will invite you in saying "my place is such a mess, blah blah". So if she has taken a few minutes to pick up and make it look nice, then obviously or at least we can assume that there is a chance to spend time with her in her pad.

Making "the movie" part of some spontaneous plan is only appropriate if through the course of the date you can tell you have enough positive convo, feedback, sign's of interest. If there is sexual attraction or tension then talk about movies, new ones .you've seen or want to see and whatever. That convo should lead to picking up a red box DVD on the way back from the bar. This is a good way to make it fun and more like an activity.

"Dinner" and/or "Drinks" though seems plain and ordinary
You already had the "get to know you" date. Doing the same thing isn't a good plan. And mistaking her talking to you and accepting a date for an invitation to come over and fuck makes her seem like a hoe and doesn't make you look very good either.

The bar to home thing works out perfectly. As you are driving her home tell her that you really have to take a piss. Then when you get to her house ask if you can come up for a minute to unload some urine. Once you're in the dragon's lair, just start lurking and become really inquisitive. You want to linger and get her comfortable with you being there. Then try to get close to her and escalate as hard as you can.

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Thanks for the advice! Planning exciting dates is one of my sticking points. The only things that I’ve ever done on dates are dinner, movies, coffee, drinks, and pool. I actually wanted to go play pool with her, but I couldn’t find any good pool halls near where she lives. I’m so shitty at planning dates that on two separate occasions with different girls, the latter part of the date has just turned into sitting together in my car and talking for an hour. So I guess what I’m trying to say is that any suggestions would be appreciated.

Don’t worry, the movie thing isn’t set in stone in my mind. I’ll do what you say and play it by ear. And if that doesn’t work, I’m definitely trying puaninja’s peeing thing! Thanks for that suggestion!