If someone opened with 'sorry i'm late' and then went into a routine where you pretended to know the girls, and it worked and you got laid, and then you done the same thing the week after and it worked again, would it make sense to always open in that way!?

I hate the idea of relying on kind of weird routines for various reasons (e.g - that opener would be very odd in certain situations and they wouldn't find it funny and it always feels a bit unnatrual), but i'm wondering if I should just accept that for whatever reason, they work for me!

Obviously I still get shot down lots, but if I open and just say 'hi' or whatever and then start making assumptions and asking questions, it never even gets off the ground.

With certain routines, we are bantering very quickly and my odds of success sky-rocket.

I'm conflicted