Soooo I don't quite know if this is really considered a field report... but I'll just say what happened to me today.

Little background: I am a type of person that can mostly maintain a great conversation with anyone and easily be funny and entertaining HOWEVER I do not approach anyone. Usually people I don't know will say something to me first before I say something to them. This hasn't hurt me TOO bad considering I have great friends and all, but I HAVE been in many situations when I've just wanted to compliment a girl or simply talk to her but pussy out.

I have been reading tons of posts on here for the past few days and just seeing people's techniques and such.

So today I decided that I would finally do something about it and talk to a girl. I went to take my final for college and at the testing center there was a girl with a really dark red color hair and I wanted to compliment her SO BAD but I stupidly convinced myself to say nothing. Felt a little regret. Then later after my test was over I was walking out of the building and there was a girl walking exactly next to at the same pace. She wasn't walking faster or slower. I'd say maybe a HB7? So I saw her and decided "Fuck it yolo swag" and I just casually said "What test did you just take?" and she replied with something about dance. I asked her what major she was and she said engineering. So I teased her about taking dance as an engineer and she laughed. I decided at that point that she would be open to jokes and I started asking her about generic things like "do you commute", "what year are you in", etc and expanded on topics and made her laugh when I could.

We eventually walked to a point where I had to go a different way and if I had done this shit BEFORE reading through seddit, I would've said something very similar to "hey, I was wondering if you'd like to give me your number, if you're okay with that." Yes, I would have sounded that passive. Instead I went with "Hey, why don't you give me your number and I'll text you sometime." I felt for a split second that she hesitated ever so slightly, BUT she still did give me her number.

I have not messaged her yet, so I don't know what to quite expect. My idea at the moment, is that if that hesitation was just shyness/nervousness then she should be fine talking to me when I message her. However, if that was genuine hesitation in trusting me or something, then I don't think she will reply. Either way, I am still happy.

TLDR: I finally decided to approach a girl instead of being approached. Wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would go. Wasn't awkward. Good conversation and got her number. HUGE milestone for me because I feel like now I won't think NEARLY as much about talking to a stranger and simply just say fuck it and do it.