"Hey, you look really familiar...I swear I've met you somewhere"

As long as you don’t seem too premeditated with it and don’t just try it with every cute girl you walk past, I think it provides the following ways to:

Initiate a conversation in a way that seems legitimate (even in a fast paced place like a mall where you might only have a few seconds to act and it would be inappropriate to walk up and introduce yourself) - it’s also logical that you stared or smiled at her beforehand

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Makes her intrigued and feel a bit special because she’s obviously memorable in some way - she might even be more eager to figure out where you’ve seen her than you are - and since you’re making it up you can talk for a while

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Check whether she’s single “god I’ve just remembered what year were living in.... it was probably a dating app wasn’t it” and that will probably prompt her to tell you whether she has a boyfriend or not

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Indirectly Compliment them “I guess you’re not the only cute 5’7 brunette girl in this city” / “hmm maybe im confusing you with [celebrity who looks a bit like them]”

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Display your humour “or there’s something your parents aren’t telling you” / “I get confused with Ryan gosling quite often so it happens” / “maybe we have this conversation every day and we both have dementia?”

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Organically find things out about her - where she studies, where she works, what clubs or bars she goes to, which part of town she lives in - and share things about yourself

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A way to close: If you have a good interaction you can say something like “well shit it will remain a mystery if I’ve seen you before but I think I’d like to see you again since you seem like a genuinely interesting person worth getting to know” OR if they’re someone you’ll probably see regularly e.g a new person at your gym you can now say the same thing as a joke next time you see them.

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An easy way out - if you aren’t vibing or theyre getting annoyed or say they have a boyfriend or something - you can just say “shit I guess it will stay an unsolved mystery... anyway please stop stalking me... haha no enjoy your day”

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It’s a bit cheesy and most girls will catch on sooner or later but I feel like it could work better than just walking up to someone with your hand out “hey I’m Todd valentine and I’m here to coax you into sleeping with me”.

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Anyway, what are your thoughts?

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P.S.

Here's the backstory for context:

I was working in my retail job yesterday when a lady came up and was clearly flirting, more so than any other customer I’ve ever had. She stared at me for a moment and said “you look familiar... I swear I’ve seen you somewhere before” So I joked that she must be thinking of bradd Pitt, and then we spoke about what uni I go to and what area I live around to see if that was the place where we may have crossed paths before... the i asked how long she’s been living here and we spoke about her heritage for a minute... we never got to the bottom of it but it provided a good reason for conversation. Unfortunately she wasn’t my type but after I politely declined to talk more I started thinking about what a great strategy it was.