Hit the bar again last night, this time I had someone driving me so I was doing some pregaming. Show up at the bar, peacocking a little more than usual, (suit jacket, jeans, purple dress shirt, tie, black shoes). I always feel overdressed, but I definitely get more attention. Seddit reassure me that this is ok?

So we get to the bar and walk around a bit. I'm still having a fucking hard time with the three second rule. I'm sure I'll get it with practice eventually but for now I'm slowly building up the courage to talk to people. So I run into the girl from this post:my first [FR] and she immediately starts giving me crap about trying to hard. Points to her friend with a tshirt and tells me thats how I should dress. Of course I didnt take her shit, i'm over that, (not over her just taking shit in general), so I something along the lines of "I look fly as hell, I dont know why you're giving me a hard time". She asked if any girls have hit on me yet and my friend swooped in to give her an affirmative. (wingmen are good to have).

So we move on to set number 2 which is a chick and a dude. I actually met the chick once before and had a pretty epic doodle battle with her in the bar. (she thinks she won because she drew the death star blowing up my drawings and I drew the enterprise blowing up her shit) So we talk for a long time and joke with eachother about our doodle battle and such. But she's not really a target just a cool chick.

So we move onto set 3 which is a chick by herself. I know that this is not optimal but how can you pass up this type of opportunity? she was an hb8, sitting alone at the bar! So I walked up to her and give her some major eye contact, she says "dont I know you from someplace" and I admit "I'm kind of embarrassed but I recognize you from okcupid" turns out she remembered me from high school or something, but I definitely had just sent her a message on okc like 3 days ago, she hasn't gotten it yet.

Anyway I'm talking to her, major kino, my friend is super jealous because he wants this chick too, but I opened and he came over uninvited. I wasnt too worried, just felt really awkward about that, I was making good progress and he just wouldnt let me go. He's wingman 2, wingman 1 is great, the one i mentioned before. Anyway dont think i'll take him next time lol.

So then this really overaggressive guy comes up and starts chatting up this chick i'm with. Like i'm standing right next to her with my hands on her legs, why do all these dudes insist on coming up and interrupting! So he's like lets do a shot, and I'm telling the girl in her ear "get him to get me one too ;)" and she says "oh i cant do that, but i'll buy you one" and I say "i'm pretty sure you could convince him", but i dont push it. Anyway they start talking about world of warcraft and its all over my head even though I played the game. I gave them a bit of a hard time for that but then i just walked away. I was going for "dont seem too interested" but I think it probably looked like I was giving up. I did give her lots of eye contact when i got up.

I went on to talk to this hb7 that I used to work with like 8 years ago. She told me "I used to have an std but now i'm fixed" Wow what a turn on. I passed her off to wingman 2 so he has something to distract him and go back to check on my hb8.

She's still talking about WoW with overaggressive guy. Apparently there is some one player version of wow as opposed to the mmo? I thought they were talking about warcraft 3 but I really had no clue. So I said "a one play version of wow, you must be reaaally lonely then, no wonder you come to the bar by yourself! ;)" Every time i poke a little fun at her, aggressive dude is super quick to defend her, "oh she came with her friend but he left" *rolls my eyes. So this type of back and forth continues for a while and shit its like i can't make an emotional connection with the girl because this dude wont go away. In hindsight I probably should have extracted her to a seduction location at this point, but I'm still learning. So my friends are leaving and I ask if she wants to come to bar 2 and she says no. Probably should have got her number, :-\

edit: forgot to say, she did buy me a shot and did one with me in front of the other dude. I felt like I was so in, but I didnt know what to do. Guess I need to keep studying. I have the negs down pretty good, and initiating is going ok, and the kino even is good, but I hit a wall eventually. How do I break the wall?