TOPIC: Mr. Henrys A/A Journal

Hey Chris, in that case im headed out now to redo stationary high 5s and abcs. thanks for the clarification!

Thanks Chris.  It makes sense.  I was already planning on coming back to this one on one my of my days off,  just to master it better.  Kind of like if your bad at free throws, you spend an extra hour after practice working on your free throws.  I really appreciate the feedback.

Day 18 - Yesterday at a college campus and downtown.  To tell you the truth, after Day 17’s drill, I found this drill super easy.  I did 23 approaches in about 45 minutes.  The last dozen I used the “my boyfriend bought them for me,” line.  It was more fun that way.

Day 19 - Today, was at a mall.  I did the first four as gay,  the second four serious, and the rest normal.  To tell you the truth, the gay four I didn’t find to be that hard.  I felt like I was just playing a character.  The really serious one was a little tougher.  I had a hard time not sliding back into “normal” through out the questions. But, all in all, I did about 20 approaches in less then 35 minutes.

It’s been a busy week for me and  a few days since my last log in. Although, I’ve struggled to keep a daily log for this week, I have still been diligent on doing the daily drills.  Here’s my update:

Drill 20 - Monday, all street approaches.  No real difficulty for myself with the drill.  Performed 23 times in about 35 minutes.

No drills on Tuesday because a girl I hook up with was in town.  Figured that was legit reason to take the day off.

Wednesday I was in Seattle and I used the spare time I had, on that day, to revisit Drill 17 (the alphabet one,) since that has been the drill I’ve had the most difficulty with, so far.  I approached about 30 girls through out the afternoon (mostly just on the downtown streets)  Can’t say it was “easy,” so I decided I was going to do it again the next day.

Drill 17, again and again.  On Thursday, I went to an outdoor mall , since it was a nice day.  Not nearly as busy as I thought it would be, but still managed to do 14 approach in about 25 minutes.  I think I’m finally getting the hang of it.

Drill 21, Thursday night.  Went to a club around midnight.  I had a little bit of anxiety going into it, but nothing that wasn’t controllable.  And, once I got started it went pretty smoothly and quickly.  Squeezed 14 arms in less then 20 minutes. 

I would have tried to performed another 10 somewhere else, but on a weekday night I couldn’t find anywhere else that was really that busy.

Day 22 -  Yesterday I performed day 22’s drill, mostly on the street or in the mall.  My anxiety wasn’t that bad at all on these one’s.  I actually enjoyed them.  I performed them 18 times in about and hour.

Day 23 - Today, on the street and in a mall again. Then the last bunch over at a nearby college campus.

At first, I was off to a slow start.  Letting a lot of opportunities pass by, and then the first girl was gave me a super icy response.  I realized that my energy was pretty low and I was just going through the motions.  Because of my work schedule for the last 24 hours I hadn’t got much sleep the night before. 

So, I stopped and got a cup of coffee and regrouped.  Told myself to really focus being in the moment, have fun with it, and emphasize a “I’m just fucking with you” attitude.  That seemed to help, the first several were still a little weak, in my opinion, but was steadily getting in the groove.  After the first 10, I was cruising pretty confidently.  Did it 33 times today.

Highlights included:

- A couple of times, Asian girls, who’s native language didn’t seem to be English, actually tried to give me directions to Sesame Street. 

- One girl, of two, started singing the Sesame Street song right after I popped the question. 

- Another girl asking me if I was taking part in a class on campus called “Social Arts.” When I said no and asked what was it,  she replied that they sent you around campus to “fuck with people.”

- Towards the end, I was trying to get girls to look up directions on Google Maps with their smart phone.  Some of them did, even though they were pretty sure I was talking about the TV show?

Ahahaah! US 1, Switzerland 0 (-: That's how it looks like if people actually get the joke. Having girls looking for it on Google Maps happened to me a lot and I cannot say I thought it was funny whatsoever. Maybe because I was thinking about what a lack of irony it shows. But good work, keep at it!

Thanks Ernest, appreciate it.             

Day 24 - I performed the Birthday drill yesterday.  Going into it, I had a little bit of apprehension, but once I got started all the jitters washed away.  In fact, the first four approaches took me less then seven minutes to perform (I wasn‘t able to keep up at the same rate for the rest because I went through some droughts of walking around alot because of lack of girls.) 

It was a super nice day out, so all of the drills were performed either in neighborhood streets or grocery stores along the way. 

I was surprised by how many positive reactions I got from it.  Probably only a handful were negative (or more accurately icy responses.)  Only about 4 times did I have to ask the birthday question all three times.  About half of those would still not have an answer. 


Day 25 - Today I did the “what’s for lunch,” drill.  Again, some uneasiness going into it, but not a problem after performing the drill on the first girl, and seeing it wasn’t such a big deal. 

I feel like the drills for week four, in general, tend to have the most positive reactions from the more attractive girls.  They tend to be more enthusiastic and playful.  I’m not saying this is true 100 percent of the time (I’ve had a handful of icy reactions from hot girls too,) but probably true about 70 percent of the time.  Not sure why this is, maybe they tend to be more confident?  But, it does motivate me to approach the hotter girls in the area (more then usual.) 

I performed this drill 20 times, today.

Day 26 - This drill for some reason took me a while.  There was two days I went out and wasn’t able to perform the drills because of anxiety.  I was getting frustrated with myself because it’s been so nice out lately and as a result a lot of hot girls walking around looking sexy as hell.

Both days that I struggled I would eventually default into doing earlier drills.  Either asking the birthday or what’s for lunch.  I figured it was better then walking around with anxiety and not doing any drills.

Then Tuesday I finally got  that first girl asking “who’s your daddy” drill under my belt.  She was sitting on a street bench and texting on her phone.  She never acknowledge the whole drill, and kept texting the entire time.  After that it got easier, of course.  I don’t why I don’t internalize that the first approach is always the hardest, that’s the case 95% of the time. 

The second girl didn’t ignore me the entire time, but refused to answer me.  Saying she wasn’t going to play the game and what’s the point of this.  So, again I had to ask the questions four times over, sometimes starting over when she interrupted me.

The 3rd girl again wouldn’t answer the question, but she thought it was hilarious that I kept asking and repeating the whole thing over.  She just kept laughing saying things like she wasn’t sure how to answer the question.

The next three out of four girls gave me a straight up answer, which by that time I found surprising.  By, the end I was breezing through them pretty quickly.  The last three I did completed in about five minutes.

Day 27 - I completed today.  Compared to the last drill there really wasn’t much struggle.  Maybe because of lessons learned from the last drill. 

Overall I was a little surprised by that majority of the girls didn’t find the whole body building posing thing with a little more humor.  I think some of the girls were put off a little by me referring to them as “bro.”

Day 28 - Completed yesterday.  This was pretty easy, did it at the mall in less then 30 minutes.  I’m getting much better at, when I see attractive girl, not hesitating and just doing it.

Day 29 - Completed it this afternoon.  Went down to the waterfront/Saturday Market.  Got out of my car and double high fived a girl walking by (I don’t think you can get started any faster.) 

Highlights:

- One girl only single high fived me because she had so much shit in her hands (I didn‘t count this one.)  She actually apologized for not being able to do a double high five.  I think that was one of the biggest obstacles with this drill for me, so many girls are carrying so much shit in their hands - purses, cell phones, frappuccinos, etc.

- One girl to give me a reluctant single high five and I and I held on to her hand, repeating “double high five,” with my other hand still up.  Her friend chimed in the she needed to double high five, and she finally gave in. 

- One girl gave me a hesitant double high five, but her friend a much more enthusiastically gave me single high five while my hands were still up.  I guess that counts as a triple high five.

- The 11th girl was the first girl not to respond to the drill.  I got a little aggressive/insistent by repeating “double high ten,” to her almost following her.  In fact, I did tell her I’m just going to follow her until she double high fives me.  That’s when she ran away calling  towards her friend who was casually walking away, I think totally unaware of the interaction. 

The score -

- 1 single high five

- 10 double high fives

- 1 triple high five

- 1 girl ran away