Title says it. I'm [23M] recently out of a 5 year long relationship in which I never did any sort of "seducing" since, well, I didn't have to. My gf and I had a perfectly good sex life (1000x at least) and made eachother feel good. Now that I've been out of it for a month or so, I realize just how socially retarded I am when talking to women I don't already know super well.

For some context, I'm short, bald, and ugly (bad shaped head, acne scarring, very asymmetrical face, etc.) Even with great style, I probably max out at like a 4/10. Luckily I'm in good shape. But that's about it for me.

Last night, I was at a bar, it was crowded but I was sitting all by myself like a loser. I saw two girls come in and sit down by themselves and looked kinda bored. I was going to leave soon anyways, so I beat my anxiety, said "fuck it", walked up to them, and opened with "Why do you two look so disappointed? Waiting for someone?"

At this point, I was relatively well received. They smiled, laughed, and said "No! No one else!" So I just sat down at the table. I thought I did pretty well up to this point.

From here, I absolutely bombed. It's almost like I never expected to get to the point where I actually had to talk to them and be fun. From there, I just kept asking boring, predictable questions like "so what do you do?" "how do you like living around here?" etc. etc. I'm almost sure my body language was that of low confidence and I wasn't speaking with authority or making strong eye contact. I could see the boredom enter their eyes. Eventually, one of them said "look, we're sorry, we're just really not interested in making friends". At which point I said "oh, ok. Well, have a good night." Got up and left. I think I heard them laugh once I was leaving and had my back turned.

Did I get absolutely torched? Yes. Did I pull a Hindenburg? Yes. Do I care? Not really, no.

I guess this is what the start is like, though.