A quick introduction: I'm completely new to game, and have just started reading Roosh's Bang and Day Bang. I pretty much have to do day game since I'm not old enough for bars and nightclubs.

The Situation

So I go in to this Five Guys and I see mostly groups of friends together. I do see one lone, cute girl sitting on a stool facing the window, but I couldn't think of anything to say. She had her food, a textbook that she was studying, and her bag on another chair.

I decided the elderly opening wouldn't work here ("Excuse me, is that a good textbook? I've always wanted a good textbook. All my textbooks are confusing as shit." ), and I couldn't think of any other openers appropriate for the situation. I started getting approach anxiety just thinking about sitting down next to her with no pretext, but then I started doing Roosh's worst case scenario routine.

I imagined the girl turning to look at me like I'm weird, the guys a few stools over laughing their asses off, the cashier suddenly stopping to take orders and hollering "Dude, that's so obvious! Hahaha!", and when I got on the internet later to ask for advice, everyone laughs and tells me I should give up on pick-up already. Even if all that does happen, so what? Life goes on.

And with that my approach anxiety went away.

The Approach

After I got my food I sat down next to her. I still couldn't think of an opener, so I just started eating my food. After finishing my burger, I realized she's been reaching for her fries a lot. I decided to say something along the lines of, "Hey, can I try the fries?" and then "You come here often?" Not very interesting, but I knew I had to try something if I wanted to learn.

I came back with more napkins and nonchalantly asked her, "Excuse me. Can I try one of your fries?" She silently turned the bag towards me. I reached in, grabbed a fry, dipped it in ketchup, ate and commented, "Hm, seems a bit dry." (Why did I say that? Don't know, just felt like it.) She didn't reply. I followed up with "I don't come here often..." wait shit that wasn't what I was going to say "...so..." well fuck. She remained speechless and turned back towards her textbook.

I finished up and left. That's my pathetic excuse for a first approach.

The End

Personal hindsight: If I hadn't assumed the elderly opener was not applicable, I could have thought of "Excuse me. Are those good fries?" and have probably followed up with a more natural conversation.

So. You guys got any tips, advice, or just general feedback for me?

The more you do the better and more natural you will become. I generally don't go for routines but just be myself and say whatever the fuck comes to my head. Most of the time you will not see this person ever again so who gives a fuck. The important part is you tried this is honestly half the battle. Now you just have to get more confortable with it and realize its really not that important to get a yes because you are going to approach the next attractive female and get a yes.

Good job! The fact that you made that approach is a win. You are on your way. Remember, it's okay, in fact, preferable to go in without knowing what to say. The more you think about the approach (and about what to say) the more nervous you get and the more likely it is that you wuss out. So be okay with just going in without a plan. It will be hard. Getting someone (a wing) to push you and hold you accountable did wonders for me. Good luck my friend.

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Good job on making yourself approach.

I'm gonna be honest and straight forward with you though. As someone reading the approach, it sounded extremely awkward. I thought this was a joke at first.

I'm not trying to bag on you, but I can tell that you need a lot of overall social improvement. Which is totally fine! Most of us hear start off that way. I certainly did.

I personally don't like asking people for their food. It is very intrusive in my opinion. Fuck going indirect during the day too. I'm a fan of Roosh but for a newbie I say go direct off the bat. Walk over and say something like hey, I just had to come over and say that you have a particular look about you that I think is adorable. If you get positive signals then grab a chair and run a quick set.

False time constraints are important when you start off in daygame. Before you ever grab a chair, say I have to meet a friend in ten minutes so I can only stay a minute.

Another sentence you should never ever say is "do you come here often?". Don't use it. Ever. Unless it is clear you are saying it as a joke.

I really hope this post wasn't a troll. Lol. If you really want advice though hit me up.

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The fact that you tried is good enough, now you just need to work hard on your AA as it seems to be causing your problems - not the script. Especially in a public setting where you don't know the people, the risks are very low so don't worry!