So when I was away on vacation I did awesome, the best in my life, but that was two months ago and I haven't been able to approach anyone until today, when I finally did it my first approach in my home city. It went great by my standards but things didn't get much better after that. I spent the next 4 hours wandering around getting nothing done but talking to shopkeepers, security and stuff like that... which is good, but not quite where I want to be right now after all this work.

So my question is am I just going to the wrong places at the wrong times? I feel like I barely see any opportunities. Sometimes there are almost no girls out at all. Today there were probably only two other sets the entire day where I can honestly say it was just me who failed to pull the trigger. Maybe I'm too picky but I don't think so. I've been downtown when there are fucktons of hot girls that look interesting before and that was not today.

I know this is probably culturally specific (I'm in Sweden right now) but is there like some kind of general pattern to this shit? Why is there nobody out on a Saturday afternoon with reasonable weather? Tuesday afternoon was full of girls, while a neighboring city around the same time had none. I don't understand at all. Has anyone written about this? Are there some basics I'm missing? Like when do people go to city centers vs. shopping malls, just as one example?