I've never been able to fully grasp the way of the cold open. It would either be in a professional setting where I'm in work mode and my mind is blank or when I'm hanging with my friends and I have to become a social vampire feeding on their extrovert energy. Now after being in this subreddit for a while I said that I will perform a cold open ... solo.

Today I was walking home from the gym and I saw this woman who caught my attention but she had bags with her as if she was traveling. So normally I would just blast my music in my headphones and carry on with my day but I decided to do something different.

I had a bad feeling that if I approached her and spoke about how beautiful she is I would just be bland and ineffective it also didn't help that I was wearing sunglasses [TLDR, I have eczema around my eyes so I became self conscious about showing my eyes to people so yes I became that guy that wears sunglasses at night] so I used my brain for a second and used my environment as my ice breaker. She had blonde to borderline white hair and I've always been fascinated with dying hair especially my own so I walked up to her and asked about how she got her hair the color that she did.

She told me it was bleached and we both laughed for a bit, but in that moment I could feel my heart almost burst out of my chest. We reached an intersection and went our separate ways but before I left I wished her a nice day just to pat myself on the back.

It's not the greatest success story but it was something, at least for me.