First some background on me. I was married for a long time. Only messed around on my wife once (I know). What that basically means however is that I have very little experience approaching not only women but pretty much anyone.

So I have been reading and watching material since last week. Not very long I know, but I am already 100x better than I was before. I have approached and spoken to more people in the last week than probably the last five years.

I would say I was above average looking, pretty good shape, great job, car, all the necessary requirements for being confident. I have no problem with self-esteem or image issues. I am one awesome motherfucker is what I am trying to say.

Example one: I was at a bar with my wingman (he is bad at it btw) and there was a couple of HB6 sitting down the bar, apparently alone but seemed to know several of the guys in the bar and were pretty friendly with them. I finally got around to going over and talking. Kind of an indirect open asking if anyone had sang karaoke at all that night. Are you guys going to sing, blah blah. A touch of kino, seemingly initiated by the girl I was standing next to. After a few minutes one of the guys that seemed to be friends with her came and gave her a big hug from the back and pretty much killed any connection that was happening. I also kind of stopped talking for way too long I realized afterwards. I have read some more on convo threading now and need to work on that some more now I realize. Either way, that was really the first time I had approached two random females in a bar type setting ever and I was not at all disappointed. Ended up having a couple of minute convo with one of their guy friends about a concert a few days ago and he was genuinely friendly.

Example 2: Daygaming a bit at the grocery store. Ran into a much younger HB7 working that I opened with a hello and then went around the aisle and said, "I didn't think I would be able to break you out of your trance." she said, "No I am fine." and that was that. I had nothing else to say.

Same store wandering around some more. Run into a HB6.5 pushing like four kids. Seemed like another good opportunity: Me: "You must be some kind of professional bringing four kids to the grocery store by yourself." Her: "Yea, I know. Always an adventure or something." Me: "Are they all yours?" Her "Yep, not a daycare here." Me: Nothing again. I had no idea how to continue here. Ran into her again just a few seconds later when one of the kids pulled some stuff off a shelf and made some comment about that and she smiled and stuff so it was not total brush off, she was very friendly.

All in all I am lightyears ahead of where I was just a week ago and I wanted to say thanks to all you guys with a giant wall of text. So thanks a lot.

tl;dr: Newly divorced guy figures out how to talk to strangers for the first time ever.