Preface: Before reading seddit I’ve known of PUA but never employed PU tactics. I’ve never been one to touch other people and decided to make a habit of initiating contact much more often on everyone I meet. Several days into the exercise I encounter a chance to use it in a PU situation

FR Start: My buddy (B) and I head to a brewpub to catch some college football after a long day of classes. We are in grad school, well traveled and speak several languages so we have a lot in common to talk about. A friend of my buddy (FOB) emerges from the back dining room. Introductions are made, hearty handshakes exchanged. I make a playful joke at B’s expense and we go to join FOB and his GF plus several friends of GF. I learn through a quick convo that FOB’s GF has been trying to introduce B to one of FOB+GF’s friends.

At their table is FOB+GF, 2 girls, X (HB6) and Y (HB5) and another couple (AC). I introduce myself first to FOB’s GF with a simple handshake. Next I do the same for X who intentionally avoids eye contact with, but still shakes my hand. Instantly put off by this, I decide she’s not worth my time. Y is much friendlier. FOB+GF saddle B up to Y, who they’ve been trying to play matchmaker with.

Appetizers come in, they ordered calamari among other things, which they have never tried before. B and I, being more traveled than this group have no problem taking up their dares to eat the miniature squids whole. We begin to regale them with stories of the actual strange things we’ve eaten. A little buzzed we begin to converse in one of our common non-English languages while the group is distracted by AC and X’s departure (good riddance). B indicates to me a total lack of interest in Y. The rest of the group parts ways, B and I indicate we aren’t finished drinking yet, I encourage Y to come along and we change venues.

During the walk I get a better view of Y’s body and upgrade her to HB6, but I was also pretty buzzed. The new venue is a smaller pub, packed with people. B can’t really handle his liquor as well as me so he’s pretty quiet most of the time. Random guy comes up opens our set, buys us all drinks and starts kino on Y. I call him out on his shenanigans by making fun of his canned opener and moves, Y is actually somewhat aware of PUA and makes fun of random guy. He quickly leaves (thanks for the drink).

At this point I start kino on both B and Y. B and I exchange some epic high fives, back slaps and other awesomely masculine things. I begin to brush up against Y lightly for incidental contact, but I have yet to square my shoulders to her. The crux comes when I see that she tries to make an insightful comment regarding a current issue. I square myself to her (B is too busy trying to make the room stop spinning so he doesn’t care that I’ve closed him out of the loop. I don’t consider this to be isolation perse). I escalate to deliberate touch like a hand on the shoulder or arm. B gains some of his wit back and I am no longer squared up with Y.

A friend of Y (Z HB7) makes her entrance. Z is with others (mostly guys) but breaks off once in a while to join us. Z is very open and sex positive (but really dumb so I’d just call her a loose lady). She makes some very flirtatious remarks, I reciprocate and start kino on Z in front of Y. We exchange some crude banter while I’ve my arm around her back and she rubs my chest. As soon as she arrived, however, she was gone to her pack of adoring followers. Y basically tells me Z is a whore and has a menagerie of STIs, so I concentrate back on Y.

I restart kino, but escalated. At this point I slide my hand across her lower back as I put my arm around her hip, and without any pressure pulling towards myself she leans into me. Eye contact is solid, she’s definitely beyond my comfort zone with how close she is to me.

By now B has had enough and I am also on the cusp of making a fool of myself with how much I had been drinking. B sets out to leave, Y has work the next day and needs to leave too. However, another group of friends walk into the bar at this exact moment and I’m reeled into another group. Before Y and B leave I # close and even get hug.