Pickup is like a muscle, if you don't exercise it often it will atrophy. Personally, I love pickup for the sake of pickup. Seeing where and what you can pull on any given night for me is a blast.

So I show up at this young professionals mixer. For any of you that have never been, just imagine a bunch of uncomfortable young, doctors, lawyer, and accountants trying to socialize. The upside to this? $10 open bar in one of Miami's swank bars on a Thursday night.

One thing that will really help your game is to dress well. Now, it may not always be the place for it but I think everyone should drop some cash on at least some nice jackets and shirts. Anyway just put some work into dressing well or at least wearing clothes that fit. It makes a big difference.

The place is very crowded and I'm pretty much just working the crowd, saying hi to friends and associates and making new friends. I always work on my subcommunication so I make sure that my walk is confident my head up but relaxed, and smile. When you get good at this you will see that people will want to approach you. And sure enough this is the case and dudes I don't know are coming around to chat me up and have some drinks, so I introduced them to my other friends, so they could have some people to hang out with. It's all about giving value.

So I go around and see an HB 7.5* with her fat friend. I come around and open with "you guys look like CPAs." As soon as they hear me there necks snap in my direction, I think at this point my Social Proof was pretty high but also I could tell I was very relaxed in a situation with a lot of uncomfortable people around me. We chat for a bit and i get the 7.5s number. We shoot the shit and I do a takeaway.

One interesting note is I actually was able to pull off one of the tougher Mystery maneuvers and generated attraction between myself and some dude's girlfriend by opening the dude. So as I'm making buddy buddy with this girl's boyfriend, all of a sudden she just can't stand being outside the interaction and jumps in and starts peppering me with questions while turning away from her BF. Didn't really pursue this but this is something that I've read about but actually was able to pull off.

I go back the HB 7.5* and her group (did kind of a mini takeaway). We're talking then out of nowhere a new HB 7* just jumps into the convo giving me heavy vibes and kino and basically chases the other group off. I pick up on it and I know its on. Since she is showing so much interest I pick on her a little bit while I work the kino. We get to talking about golf and I ask to see her swing. I then tell her that's she's doing it wrong and come up behind her and wrap my arms around hers to show her how to swing (great excuse for kino). So I'm in a packed bar of uptight professionals and I'm bending this girl over in front of me with a drink in my hand. I introduce her to my buds briefly.

Now, one of the dudes, not really my friend but in my circle always tries to bust my sets. Dude always tries to mess with my sets and invariably fails. Anyway, pull a location change and grab her hand and take her downstairs and out to the riverfront. This is where having a strong reality comes in. I start telling her about all the awesome shit I'm involved in she's all about and we kiss.

Here is where I think I missed something. After we make out and get into some petting for a while I start pointing out the buildings on the skyline (mine is like 2 blocks away). I ask her if she'd like to share this new wine I bought on my balcony. She definitely thought about it but turns me down (maybe because Thursday and she had to drive?). In retrospect, I probably should have pressed her more, (wash rinse repeat), I was kind of tired too and had to work though. But fuck I felt like if I wanted to I could have closed that by just not saying shit and grabbing her hand and walking home. Anyways, I'll try to close it next week.

*Miami HB Scale, Your Mileage in Other Parts of the World May Vary.