This story is going back a little more than half a decade. I was fresh out of college and graduated from what we now call the anger phase. Ditching the "woe is me" attitude" I decided I wasn't going to accept being a door mat for women. I wasn't going to settle for bitchy 5/10's and I wasn't going to beg a girl for a date while I saw other guys having much more success.

I didn't know how at that point, but I knew everything I had been taught was wrong. Being a nice guy got me absolutely nowhere. So I began devouring everything I could from the PUA community. It didn't take me long to start shucking the good advice from the bad advice through trial and error (lots and lots of error). I got in better shape, had a better car, but I was still not doing much better than I had in college. This is when I got my first lesson on plates.

She was 19 and a sophomore at the local college when I met her at the local hookah bar. Long black hair, nice body, and a nice demeanor. I got to talking to her and found out she was a religious girl with conservative Indian parents and a boyfriend. Old me would have shied away, but this time I didn't. We ended up with light flirting and sharing a smoke. I used what PUAs called KINO escalation which even led to us blowing smoke into each others mouth.

This was completely out of character for me, she had a boyfriend, and my god I didn't even ask permission to get so close to her but she loved it. Could it be that this PUA stuff that people mocked on the internet worked? It sure seemed like it, she invited me to her birthday party, of course I assumed she would never leave her BF because NAWALT (laugh).

I got to the party which was at a restaurant and much smaller than I thought. It was only her and two girlfriends, two guy friends, and her boyfriend. I looked at him and realized he had very poor posture, was shy, slim, and non assertive. I figured if he had the girl and I didn't so he must have something I didn't.

Throughout the night she's getting less interested in him even though he desperately wants her attention, he even had some expensive gift for her to show his love, this only seemed to turn her off. I'm doing the cocky funny approach I learned from the PUA community and not only is she eating it up, but her two guy friends are too, the boyfriend is steaming because while I'm not hitting on her in an obvious way I'm dominating the conversation.

Then I remembered I had a bottle of flavored vodka, I told her said I had a present in my car and asked the boyfriend if I could take her out to give it to her. Like a beta he sheepishly said "whatever". We went out and did a few shots alone then came back in. I didn't mention what her present was. 15 minutes later I asked her if she wanted another present and we went out to do more shots. At this point her beta boyfriend must have assumed I was messing around with her and was tearing up when we came back, he looked like a crushed man. He excused himself, left the party, and his girl went home with me that night.

This girl was nothing but a plate for me and we only saw each other a few more times. But this was the first time I was on the Alpha side of the AF/BB. It felt empowering and I couldn't believe how easy it was. I did nothing but meet a girl twice, keep frame, show a higher SMV than her current boyfriend, and she went home with me. That was it. Old me would have said NAWALT and a nice religious girl would never leave her boyfriend for a guy she met twice. Old me would have said that even if I could get a girl like that, she was just a slut and NAWALT. Old more would have professed his feelings for her and tried to make her a girlfriend instead of a plate. Old me was an AFC and couldn't have been more wrong.

I learned a lot more since then and Red Pill knowledge isn't an epiphany, it's more like weight lifting that improves gradually over time. If I told this story in any other forum I would be called an asshole for ruining someones relationship, but if you've unplugged you'll know that it's natural for a women to leave her man for someone with higher SMV. I'll share other stories later in this thread if there's interest.