Monday, November 28, 2005

Crash, Burn, and AMOGed.

Saturday night in A-Town.. A pretty successful night for finding sets. I join up with two of my buddies who had AFC'd all night and didn't work up the courage to open any sets. So I sit down and we see a three set at the bar. I try my new opener out on them. It goes over well and i had a lot of IOI's from my target. I ejected early just cause i felt sucessful in front of my wings. No more of that anymore..

We hit a few other venues and couldn't get one of my buddies to open a single set all night. We even pushed him close and did a freeze out on him. He was more content standing by himself with our backs to him then go approach a friendly 2 set.

My other wing hits 2 really good sets and is pretty amped. I approach a 2 set but made some major mistakes. The Target looks over at me and i hold her gaze for what was like 5 sec. I look away.. Mistake one. I hit the bathroom real quick to change the direction of approach and sit down next to them. A guy pushes me out of my seat AMOGing me immediatly killing my alpha state. I am left basically kneeling trying to present my opener. My Target actually gets up and leaves. The Obstacle listens with obvious annoyance and her BF comes in and makes out with her right between us and i just try to continue a bit knowing i was sinking fast. She answers my opinan opener saying, "She should just dump him". I try to continue a bit more and then eject.. Later i am playing pinball and the BF comes over after i was hitting the flippers a bit crazily and touches me on the back and AMOG's me again saying "Take it easy buddy". I completely AFC and say "Hey sorry man"...

Regardless I still approached and felt good about it. It wasn't the worst rejection but i was stoked cause i did it and i didn't care about the results.. It was also good for our buddy who couldn't approach to see a bad set wasn't the worst thing in the world.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow! Looking at you at Borders in Ann Arbor, having effortless conversation, I would have never thought that you started out like all of us :)

SocialHitchHiker said...

Hehe Thanks, although any of us still have a lot we can learn. The tools Charisma Arts teach really changed my life.

It was great to see you guys in Ann Arbor. I look forward to seeing your future progress.

5/11/06