Hey guys, I just started getting into pickup a few months ago. I'm 18 years old and haven't had that much luck so far but I feel like I'm making some progress. Check out these stories.

  1. At campus bar with 3 other friends, all of them decide to go outside for a bit but I decide to stay. With no one to talk to I feel more encouraged to open a set. Three girls are standing near the bar and I start a conversation with them. One less attractive, HB6 is impressed with me coming over to talk and I end up separating her from her friends and talking to her more. After a while I #close and go outside to meet with my friends. Later that night I send her a text but she doesn't respond.

  2. At a frat party. I'm standing near coat check talking to my friend when 2 girls come over to talk to him, an HB7 and an HB4. I end up introducing myself and having a good conversation with the HB7 doing some kino by teasing her by pretending to tell her the secret handshake. They both briefly leave but I go talk to the HB7 2 minutes later somewhere else. She brought me over to talk to her on a bench in one of the main rooms. As i'm building rapport with her, her friend suddenly comes over and takes her away. Later I am walking down the stairs and see her through a glass devisor, I giver her a smile and she smiles back but I don't approach because some other guy has his arm around her and she is sitting down with a bunch of people I don't know. I don't see her again after that. I was sort of upset because I liked her but I didn't have the confidence to go after her in that last situation.

  3. I was downstairs near the bar at the same frat party as before. I'm talking to some friends when I notice an HB7.5 standing alone. Every time I see a girl by herself I get a lot of confidence to approach because the opener is always pretty easy. Some sort of comment about why she is standing there by herself or where her friends are. So I immediately go over and start a conversation with her. At some point I tell her that I was going into second year of university next year, she tells me after that she is graduating university and she probably became reluctant to hooking up with me because of the age difference. At the very end of our conversation we exchange names and she gives me a firm handshake with a lot of eye contact. Right after she does this she leaves which was sort of confusing to me. I didn't see her again after that.

  4. This is one encounter that I have many regrets about. I was at this small bar with a dance floor with 2 of my friends. I see one of my friends sitting on a chair next to a couch talking to an HB7, her friend is an HB9.5 and is sitting beside her and there is an empty seat on the couch next to her. I take this opportunity to go and sit down next to her and begin to talk. I was sort of intimidated by her looks and eventually I ran out of things to talk about and began to blank. I regret not doing something else because her face was close to mine when she was talking, but I couldn't think of anything else to do and I sort of knew I was not going to be able to hookup with her before hand because she seemed out of my league. I tried to find her on the dance floor shortly after but she was being hit on by other dudes.

  5. I was at a house party with some of my friends from residence. I was standing in a hall way talking to my friend who was also interested in trying to open sets. He points to an HB4 standing by the wall and tells me to talk to her. I was not attracted to her but I was bored at the party so I decided to get some practice in anyway. I approach her and begin to converse. She seemed into me so it wouldn't be that hard to escalate so I try some practice escalation. I brought her downstairs, a change of scenery which is a good technique to utilize, but the conversation eventually goes dull and I decide that I don't want to hook up with her. I say bye and go upstairs. For the rest of the party I see her making eye contact with me and smiling but I don't want to talk to her again. When she is about to leave she gives me her number and tells me to text her. I never end up texting her and delete the number from my phone.

  6. One of the first times I practiced pickup was at a bar with a few of my other friends who have a lot of approach anxiety. I spot an HB8.5 standing with her friends by the bar that I recognize because people I knew in the past knew and dated her but I had never personally met her. My friends were telling me that I would never go and talk to her because she is too hot. I say to my friend "say I wont do it", he says "you wont do it" and I immediately walk past him and go talk to her. It was a rough approach because I talked about how I knew of her but she didn't find it weird and I had a good conversation with her. For some reason I never had any intention of escalating or even asking her for her number and I eventually said I should go back to my friends. My friends were shocked that I actually approached her and I felt pretty alpha but I didn't have any follow up from talking to her to show for it.

  7. One of the closest times I had come to an f close was at this small club. It didn't take that much game so I wasn't that proud of the progress I made with her. I was walking around the dance floor when I spotted an HB6.5 dancing alone next to her friend who was dancing with another guy. Obviously this was an easy approach because she was by herself so I go over and ask her why she is dancing alone. She responds with "is that an invitation", so i say yes and begin to dance with her. Her friend who was being danced with was an HB8 and eventually the guy leaves. I signal my friend to go take the other guys place. It would have been gutless if I switched girls to the more attractive one. After a while I make out with the HB6.5 and my friend does the same with the HB8. I eventually ask if she wants me to call a cab. She gives some excuses about her friend staying with her from out of town and I end up leaving. I don't insist on her coming home which was probably bad, but then again I wasn't that attracted to her.

  8. At this same club I had also had attempted an f close invitation on another night. I was walking around the dance floor like before and spot an HB8, I opened with some lame line because I didn't think she would want to dance but she actually did. I dance with her and eventually start making out with her. I ask her what she is doing later and she seemed to be interested but she said she had to find her phone first. Now that I think about it she was kind of crazy. I left her and spotted her many times throughout the night looking at the ground trying to find her phone.

  9. I was at a party chilling with one of my friends who wants to start approaching girls but was still nervous about it. I tell him to follow me and I go and open a set of three girls and I introduce him to them. We talk to the group for a while and some of my other friends join in on the conversation. I end up getting bored and leave my friends to talk to the girls but I tell them that I have to take over a shift at the upstairs bar and they should come and hang out there. Later I had to close that bar down and I rejoin the party in the basement. Later on in the night 2 of the girls from before are hanging out with one of my friends. The girls said that they tried to come upstairs to see me but I wasn't there. At this point I was trying to game one of them while my friend talked to the other one. Pretty soon the other girl takes the one I was talking to away to the bathroom for some reason and I never saw them again.

  10. Again I did a pretty easy solo approach on this HB7.5 standing against the wall at a party. I talked to her for what seemed like 20 minutes, I had never talked that long to a girl I just met. She was in fourth year so I was also not really expecting anything as I am a pretty young looking guy. After a while i began contemplating getting her to go dance with me but then she says she has to go. A few weeks later I see her again at a bar and I try an approach not expecting her to remember me. She blows me off and some guy acted offended that I tried to talk to her. Another few weeks go by and I see her again at another party. She is sitting down with her friend and I tell my friend that it has to be a solo mission. Sometimes I feel that when you go in as a pair it can be sort of weird. I try talking to her again not expecting her to remember me but she was acting bitchy so I give up pretty fast. I think she just had a very big bitch shield that I was only able to break before because she was bored and alone.

  11. This is another encounter that I regret deeply. I was at a bar with some of the guys in my frat. There is a group of girls sitting around a table so I decide to talk to 2 of them on one side of the table. One is an HB6 and one is an HB8. I have a pretty good conversation with them, I must have talked to them for 10 or so minutes. After a while, one of my friends says that I have to go do something. The HB6 doesn't want me to leave so she says "Just tell your friend that these two girls want to have sex with you". The HB8 was also smiling. I was really thrown off for a second and pretty much laughed that comment off. Maybe they were joking but that is a pretty strong claim to make me stay. I didn't capitalize on this statement, I should have said something back along the same lines and gone with it regardless, but I didn't. I really dropped the ball on this one and never even #closed or anything. I really kicked myself after about this.