Hi. About me: I'm a very good looking 36 year old guy, 5' 10", in very good shape from a lot of MMA and running. The girl in the story is, in her mid, maybe early 20's, I'd say a 9/10 face and 9/10 body.

So, a few days ago, I'm at the local Whole Foods that I go to a lot. I'm a writer, so it's very nice for me to get out of my house and sit there for a few hours and work in the giant cafeteria and eat salad and zone out. I was wearing jeans and a plain black tee shirt and sneakers. Reasonably well put together, but not fancy or anything.

On this particular day, I was pretty frustrated with what I was writing, so I was mostly spacing out out and looking around the room.

I see this very attractive girl walk past me. She's wearing a low cut summer dress showing off her very excellent body. She is looking for a place to sit and eat her fruit cup and drink coconut water. She looks at me as she walks past, paces up and back the floor, and eventually takes a seat directly in front of me two tables away. She sits sideways in her chair at a somewhat awkward angle so she is facing me most of the time she's there.

And... nothing...

I completely pussied out.

I just stat there dumbfounded, staring at her as she played with her iPhone and glanced around the room in my general direction a few times. I got up to go to the bathroom just to have an excuse to walk by her table, she glanced up as I passed, and then back to her phone. I got to the bathroom, splashed water on my face, stared at myself in the mirror to psyche myself up to talk to her, and then... walked past her table back to mine without saying anything.

I hate myself. I knew I would. At least though I have reddit to publicly flog myself.

Any advice on an opener here, or how to be less of a nervous pussy in general would be awesome.