prepared when you do meet her elsewhere. There is a question ofwhether or not you should drink alcohol. You can run game whilecompletely sober in a bar without problems, but chances are you willfind your intoxicated targets to be intolerable or they will findyour sobriety weird. As long as you don’t use alcohol as a crutchto talk to girls, do what you feel most comfortable with. In general,it does help to be on the same level of inebriation as the girl youare talking to. That means if you are not drinking, you may want totalk to the designated driver instead of the birthday girl who isabout to pass out.

Two possible venues are bookstores andcoffee shops. Every time I go into one there are maybe one or twogirls whom I consider attractive. If she isn’t surrounded by herfriends or a study group, she is probably wearing headphones,immersed in her studies, or far away from my table. While I wouldn’trecommend you take time out of your day to hit a bookstore to meetwomen, there is value if you already frequent these places. The keyto these venues is proper positioning: if you are one table over tothe girl you want to talk to, or better yet if you are sharing hertable, there is a significant chance of something happening if youopen. Openers, an initial line you use to start a conversation, willcome naturally here because she is probably reading a book or workingon something that you can comment on. There’s the Internet, which Idon’t recommend, even for practice. It is very rare that trollingon dating or social networking sites will lead to anything besideswasted time. Internet pick-up turns you into a copy-and-paste monkey,where your skill lies in knowing how to blast dozens of messages inthe hope of a single response. While men do get laid from theInternet, it is often from low quality women. If you were a desirablegirl with value that many men wanted, why would you put up anInternet profile? The kind of woman who hangs around dating sites are