So I just wanted to share a story that happened to me tonight. It was sorta similar of what happened to Mark in his German pub crawl, and it really made my night because of what happened.

So I tonight I went speed dating, which seemed like a fun way to get some practice in without the pressures and messiness of cold approach. Anyways, I get there and the event is generally not great - the girls aren't that attractive and there weren't as many women there as I would've liked. I still had a great time talking to the girls there, but I ended up checking yes on only one of them.

Anyways, I wasn't super into the girls at the speed dating event, but the hostess was really really cute. She was a bit older than me (I'm 28 and she's 39) so a little cougarish, but very attractive and just had a down to earth personality. I ended up talking to her during the event and after, and I felt like we were really vibing. At one point I leave to go to the bathroom, and when I come back this other guy is talking to her. I come back into the conversation and he immediately gives me a "who the fuck are you" look and tries to ignore me. The lady keeps on giving me invites into the conversation and I just end up eventually shutting him out and taking over the interaction completely. I wasn't trying to AMOG him or anything, we just ended up talking about something personal that had nothing to do with him and he got shut out.

Anyways, I'm talking to Ms. Cougar for a while and the guy kinda circles the room and about 10-15 minutes later he comes around again and says to me dismissively "You're STILL working on her??" Now it's clear he's trying to quote unquote "AMOG" me and disrupt my game. He refers to me as "sonny" referring to the clear age difference between me and Ms. Cougar. I had never actually been AMOGed this aggressively before so my brain started to think of what to do. Traditional "game" might dictate me to try to "AMOG" him back or something, but then I remembered Mark's post and I thought, I'll just give him enough rope to hang himself. So I smiled, nodded, and shot Miss Cougar a knowing look, which she returned. Things got awkward FAST. My silence created tremendous pressure on him to perform and he immediately started wilting under that pressure and started mumbling random and ridiculous stuff interlaced with long awkward pauses. During this entire time I didn't say a word, I just looked at him and kept shooting looks back at Ms Cougar and grinning, a look that essentially said "can you believe this guy?" That's all I needed to do and eventually, he retreated with his tail in between his legs.

Anyways, I realized that my connection with Ms. Cougar was strong enough as to where I didn't need to do ANYTHING and this guy took the rope I gave him and hung himself. So, thanks Mark, for relating that story on your blog! Sometimes less is more than enough indeed.

Hahah great story; I too am starting to get intrigued by the simplification of social interactions. But i think an important question you negelected was, Did you at least get Ms. Cougar's number?

(08-07-2011 03:11 AM)Poet145x Wrote:  Hahah great story; I too am starting to get intrigued by the simplification of social interactions. But i think an important question you negelected was, Did you at least get Ms. Cougar's number?

Of course

Cool story bro!

No, really.

Very cool!

(08-07-2011 04:07 AM)Trickster Wrote:  

(08-07-2011 03:11 AM)Poet145x Wrote:  Hahah great story; I too am starting to get intrigued by the simplification of social interactions. But i think an important question you negelected was, Did you at least get Ms. Cougar's number?

Of course

Attaboy!!

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