proud of my courage last night, but no success to speak of.

First set was a 2-set. One pretty and one not so pretty. We'd been standing near them for a while, but nobody had the balls to open, so I went up to them and made a comment on her dress (only 'stock' opener I tend to use that sometimes lends itself too an actual conversation which is half of the battle here) and we got to chatting. Found out about them, made some jokes, brought up topics that I could DHV from. To be honest, I feel I done well, but I never sense much attraction from my target. My wing eventually joined me. Not my ideal wing as he tends to get a little 'competitive' and will take any opportunity to put me down in set to make him look better lol. Nothing vicious, but just little barbed remarks here and there. We invited them to join us at the next bar. They said they'd find us.

Next I Opened a 3 set. This was a table of 8.5's! All about 18 and super hot. I was feeling brave last night for some reason and I actually went in with an old school opinion opener! Nobody uses them anymore and I do find them a bit cringey at times, but for groups, I find they feel more natural and tend to land better. We got talking about the opener and I had all of them asking me questions and stuff and it was a decent set again, but it just kind of didn't go anywhere. In hindsight I guess I should have actually CHOSEN a girl (they were all so damn hot that my attention was scattered!) and made a few statements of intent. After a while it kind of fizzled out. My friends still hadn't joined me, and I just bailed when i'd eventually kind of ran out of things to say

Next bar the girls from the first set walk in and stand near us. We open them again but for some reason it feels much harder this time. I was probably a bit too drunk now too, but they (especially my target) seemed kind of guarded. I honestly don't remember how it ended with them 2, tbh.

Then went back to my home town (all of this was out of town) and burnt down my regular venue with some fairly direct approaches, but didn't get any bites.