My friends and I were at a bar, acting as all AFCs do in a bar, sitting around a table with our drinks, trashing the people performing karaoke. This was all before finding Seddit and looking back I realize now that I was, as Tyler would call it, a "chode."

We decided to go out front for a smoke, where we ran into a homeless man who asked if we could spare a cig. We all said we couldn't, because we were being bombarded by people trying to mooch a smoke. Well, we got into a conversation with him that gave me my first taste of how to really approach women.

The first piece of advice he gave me about talking to women was, "when you go up to a girl, talk to her like you've known her your entire life." I thought this was brilliant, because it makes both parties more comfortable. I asked him to demonstrate for us.

Keep in mind this was an older homeless man with no front teeth. I didn't expect it to work, I just wanted to see it in action. He walked up to an HB8 on her way to a club and says "Girl, you look good in those heels, how much did they cost? I'm not sure if it is just the way you wear them or what, but they look expensive."

The girl, surprised that she just got properly hit on by a bum, just smiled, said thanks, and continued walking.

Then his second words of wisdom came as a result of that experience. He looks at us and says, "Girls are like buses, you miss one, you just catch the next one."

After joining Seddit, doing research, and taking proper action, I still think back to these two quotes when I start to think too much. If I get rejected, I just think to myself, "time to catch the next one."

I wrote this on my phone, so sorry for any grammatical errors or incorrect autocorrects. I just had to share this experience in hopes that it helps somebody else like it helped me.