I use public transport a lot. Sitting on a bus/subway car is incredibly boring, so you end up doing a lot of people watching.

Earlier today on the subway, I saw a rather unattractive woman. She looked like she was in her mid 40s, quite overweight, weirdly dressed - just your textbook white trash. She was with another slightly older looking woman who was similarly unattractive (I later discovered this was in fact, the other woman's mother).

Some guy came up to them and started making conversation. He wasn't particularly attractive or charming, but hell - he's talking to a bunch of land whales. He was doing great - they were laughing, the younger one was dropping very obvious hints that she's interested. It looked like a pretty much done deal.

That is, until a few stops later - he asks her if she's married, she says she's divorced but has kids blah blah blah, and this guy proceeds to just completely shoot himself in the foot. He starts going on about how he's never had a girlfriend, girls never give him a chance - the usual incel lamentations. You could quite literally see her interest completely fizzle out with this sob story.

Let that sink in - this man was turned down by a 40 something obese single mom who was all over him 5 minutes ago. Why? "Nice guy game" or "sympathy game" or whatever you want to call it doesn't work. I see this unbelievably often - I've had girls show me screenshots of tinder convos that basically go from "hi" to "I'm going to die alone because girls never give me a chance, will you give me a chance?" in 2-3 lines, and unsurprisingly it never ends with the guy actually getting laid (more often than not, she'll be showing your convo to everyone she knows and laughing about it)

I wanted to share the example from today not because it's a concept I think most TRP readers would be unaware of, but mostly because I wanted to demonstrate just how much of a game killer this is. If you can't keep a landwhale welfare queen's interest, you need to seriously, seriously reevaluate your strategy. But of course, he probably won't, and will probably add this to the list of sob stories of how girls won't give a 'nice guy' like him a chance.

tl;dr - You are a P I M P with a capital P, even if you're not. Don't forget it.