1. First day game attempt. I walked into a local book store to "look around". The book store is near a college and has a coffee shop inside of it so I figured it was a decent spot. I was near the self help/dating section and two girls walked up behind me. They were literally standing there talking about how to pick up guys and dating etc... and I froze, didn't say a word, didn't even look at them. Once I hesitate like that I have a hard time coming back from it. Anyway at least I found an okay place to go back to. I have a hard time during the day, especially because I'm completely sober (even one beer helps me a ton). I know what I need to work on.
  2. I went to a concert alone. I am most comfortable in this situation, general admission so no one knows I'm there alone, I can have a few beers, awesome music that we're all there for (easy conversation starter). So I'm standing there enjoying the opening band with my beer and this girl keeps rubbing/bumping into me, everyone bumps into people but this seemed more than normal. She had 2 friends with her and they randomly pushed through the crowd and left her. I immediately opened and said "looks like your friends ditched you". We continued conversation for a while, I eventually asked if she liked sushi and she said "yes". So we arranged a sushi date and exchanged numbers. I continued to talk to her (I dont like closing with a number exchange). She was giving me a lot of IOI's at this point and I asked if she was a good kisser, she said "I'm okay, are you a good kisser?" and I said "why not find out" and leaned in. That was officially my first approach that ended in a makeout session... After we were done we hungout for a bit longer, I noticed that a Pit was forming and the crowd was getting amped up. I had been waiting for a bit to open up so I literally just left her and joined the pit, didn't even say bye. She texted me at the end of the concert and said that she hoped I had fun at the concert and to have a goodnight. I waited and texted her back in the morning. A few days later we met for our date and realized that we were missing out on another concert that we both would have loved to go see. So we decided to go, I had to swing by my place and grab some things and she rode along with me, I invited her in and gave her a tour of my place. We hungout in my room for a bit and then left for the concert. Plenty of dancing, hand holding and kissing happened at the show. While we were driving she asked "where now" and I confidently said we could go back to my place and watch a movie (knowing that she had already been to my house, complimented how clean it was etc, I knew she wouldn't object and it wasn't awkward to offer). She came over and I got laid. This was a HUGE step for me, before this I had never gotten a number that led to a date, madeout right after a cold approach, had a cold approach turn into an awesome date and sex.
  3. approached a 4 set at a concert (3 girls and a guy). I was very attracted to one girl and I noticed that she had a nose piercing. I opened and complimented her nose piercing, "Hey I like your piercing, where did you get it done?" she said thanks and one of the other girls jumped in and said "I did it, in my basement with a screwdriver". She was laughing/smiling and obviously joking. I NEG'd and said "oh ouch, well I guess it still looks good on you". I turned and said something to the guy in the group (trying to keep everyone in the conversation). The two girls walked away about 10 seconds later to go smoke... 2 things that I think I did wrong, I NEG'd which I think was fine, however when I NEG'd I didnt have a smile on my face, wasn't laughing and didnt show that I was just giving her a hard time. Instead I came off very serious, and probably seemed disturbed by her friends comment, which I'm sure didnt make either of them feel good. The other thing I did wrong was try to bring the other 2 members of the group into the conversation, I was already talking to the 2 girls (1 of which was the target) and they seemed fine to branch off from the other 2, so I should have let it change into a 2 set... I should have continued to talk to the targets friend after NEGing the target, it would have held the target in the conversation. lesson learned.

Thanks for reading my first field report, advice and suggestions are much appreciated!