Preface (skipable; the message is I felt unconfident)

Here's the deal-

I was out daygaming with a mate of mine, but ended up just chilling with him and an ever-growing flock of his friends. Good times, just hanging in the sunlight, BUT! during all of this I felt my state/situational confidence sink, I generally didn't feel that awesome. This led to me thinking negative thoughts, which I didn't quite get under control.

Then, on the tram home, something very interesting happened. Feeling a bit down, but keeping my head high and posture looking confident (open, straight up, self-amused look), I sat down next to a solid 9. A very pretty girl, earphones plugged in, but with a very bored, almost slightly sad, expression on her face. She looked at me like I was the devil for a moment, then seemed resigned to the fact that I'd sit next to her, and resumed staring either at her iPod, or out the window.

'Fuck, son', spoke my inner PUA, 'you gotta open that.'

'Nooo!' whined my inner AFC 'she looks so uninterested!'

This battle raged on for a while, until two things became clear-

A) I had nothing to lose. If I could make this girl smile any effort would be worth it, and everybody would win.

B) She wasn't about to get off before I would, so I might as well wait until having to get off the tram would give me a timeconstraint, and I could avoid pinning her down in a potentially awkward situation that way (an excuse, I know).

Actual FR

So, just before it was time to get off, I smiled at her, gave her the universal gesture for 'take out those fucking earphones', saw that she shot me a beaming smile (very unexpected!) and said (in English, which she visibly loved/needed):

"Excuse me, I have to get off here, but you have the most beautiful shining eyes I've seen all day. And I'm not even saying that to hit on you (this was true), since I don't have the time to do that."

She lit up like floodlights, it was awesome, thanked me profusely and said:

"That's ok, this is my stop too!"

"Oh, that's either a very lucky or very unlucky coincidence then!" I answered with a smirk, then, realizing this was not a good line, I added "But, you know, it's great to make somebody smile."

She lit up once more, and we both got off the tram. Outside, I introduced myself, got her name, and said something along the lines of "I don't like smalltalk, 'cause it's boring, but I'd love to get to know you better" (or something like that; credit to a sedditor whose name I forgot for most of tha tline). She agreed.

We talked for maybe half a minute more, I slyly complimented her on her smile (god, her smile) and did the C's versus U's routine out of pure habit, which went over well.

It went something like this: "You have a beautiful smile, like a hollywood smile. 'Cause you know there are two kinds of smiles, a C-smile and a U-smile, and you really have, like, the big, friendly C-smile.' She said: "Well thank you! Well, it's genuine." and proceeded to compliment me on my crooked grin :P

She complimented me on my English repeatedly, so I jokingly said:

"Are you hitting on me? ;)"

She laughed, and said no, she's not good at flirting. I told her that was OK, with a big smile, but that I sadly didn't have much time to keep talking, since my day was packed.

"I understand that this is pretty sudden, but do you want to give me your number?" I asked, only at this point deciding that, fuck it, I was gonna go for it.

"Sure! I don't usually do that, but you are so charming."

...And so I #-closed. I think I could've kissed her, too, but my balls ran out at this point, and we'd only met about 2 minutes ago, so we hugged, I kissed her hand (with the comment: "if I'm doing the gentleman-thing, I might as well do it right) and then went our merry ways.

Just txted her so she knows my number too and for the sake of pinging, let's see where this goes.

Honestly, I'm high on life right now. When you're down, life sometimes just throws you a freebie.

But wait- she didn't fall in my lap. She was nearby, but I had to still take the step to do it, and I'm proud that I did. Fuck Yeah. Even if she flakes, which I doubt, this was an awesome boost. I made her smile, I made her day, I got her number, I feel good.

I am the Lizard King; I can do Anything.

Edit: Oh shit what a wall of text that became. I'll ad a

TL;DR Felt down, met hot girl on tram. Opened despite lack of balls, went direct. She lit up with total happiness, accidentally got into a short but awesome conversation. Ran a little routine, was very natural, very direct. Numberclosed the hottest girl I've met in quite a while, and made her day.

Edit 2: bad thoughts are trying to creep in again; what if she was only being nice? Well fuck that. I know that I just did something epic, my limiting mind won't convince me otherwise.