EPTI come on TL, and I read this blog
I laugh to myself, thinking, wow what a pussy hahahaha, but then I thought about my own situation and got a big healthy serving of self loathing. Turns out, I'm in pretty much the same situation as him, being too much of a pussy to ask out a girl I like in my Management class. Fuck my life. Like the op in the aforementioned thread, I too don't consider myself to be terribly successful with the ladies. I'm not handsome, I don't have too much wit, all I got is some academic intelligence.
I decided that the Mohammed Ali video was all the motivation I needed. No, I'm not joking here, I'm dead serious. I watched the Ali video and finally worked up the courage to walk up to her in the library and say hi. Things didn't go as well as you all suggested in the thread. I mean, some of the people in the thread responded, you made it seem like a done deal and all people have to do is initiate the hi and everything else would fall into place because the girl is "obviously" already attracted to you.
I got a cold, "hey" before she went back to her laptop and books, seeming totally uninterested in me after a quick glance. Fuck this, I thought, I'm too fucking pumped up from the Mohammed Ali vid and that comic with the guy on the train to give it up that quick!
I say, "And you are.....?" while making waving motions with my hand to try to get her to divulge her name (I already know her name, I just wanted to make it seem like I didn't notice her until now). She smiles a little but I can tell it's kind of forced. I look her in the eye and pause, a moment of silence. She says, "Hi, I'm Olivia, nice to meet you...?" while making the same waving gesture I did, but in a mocking- not a teasing way.
At this point, I was thinking about just leaving and I was so nervous that I honestly forgot to answer her question and tell her my name. Instead, I started getting all giddy for some reason and just started talking about management class. I was just spewing random garbage like "damn, my prof was a bitch today, having us do a value chain analysis on the quiz when nobody fucking understood it for homework". She replied, "yeah, mine too." I responded, "yeah, obviously, since we have the same class." At this point, I honestly wanna kill myself. I just gave away the fact that I did know her before seeing her in the library. But the horror continued. "Oh, yeah, I kinda remember seeing your face there, you're in the back row aren't you?" she asked.
I pretty much can't recall much of what was said afterwards but I can remember that we had a really really boring conversation about class and homework and stuff, not the kind of stuff that makes me sound interesting. After a moment of awkwardness, I decide to go for it, even though I didn't see any signs of interest from her. I asked for her number and she said, "Sorry, I already have a boyfriend."
It was at this point that something inside me clicked.
I immediately remembered some post in the motivation thread that some guy named danmooj1 made about what the op should do if the girl had a boyfriend. "Just because the goalie is blocking the goal doesn't mean you can't score right?"
I look her in the eyes, moving my head closer to hers, and say in the most seductive voice I've ever mustered, "You know, in soccer, just because the goalie is blocking the goal doesn't mean you can't score, right?"
And from there, everything seemed to go right for me. The humor and wit just came naturally to me, I felt like the king, all from that one little confidence boost from a bad analogy from the TL thread. This is proof that Teamliquid helps you in real life situations. Living proof.
But of course, she didn't respond positively at first. At first, she laughed but then put on the brakes, saying, "Okay, I'll give you points for that but honestly, that sounded a bit too slick to have been made up on the spot."
I'm completely freestyling it now, making up stories to fit the situation, etc. I reply, "Well, you know, my nickname in high school was Slick Willy (it wasn't, I completely bullshitted that one). People started calling me that after they got tired of calling me Big Willy.
She starts getting interested, I can tell. It's like a switch went off in her brain that said, I see potential in this guy. "So, how did you get that nickname?" she asked.
Uh oh, I made that up, what the fuck do I do? I make more shit up! I say, "Well, there was this English teacher sophomore year, kind of a nut, but everyone liked him cuz he would give everyone their own unique nickname in class and only call them by that. For example, my friend Mike Morrisey was Motown, this chick, Erin Teich was E.T., and I was Slick Willy. And, I guess it just sorta caught on. You have any nicknames yourself, Olivia?"
"Oh, I remember you now, you're William. You don't participate much in class but I remember that one time you pointed out the teacher's mistake after going up to the board to solve a problem. Was that you?"
And the rest just went really smoothly, I was thoroughly impressed by what a little confidence boost from a bad goalie analogy could do to me. It was like I was a completely different person.
At the end, some douchebag library assistant walks up to us and tells us to quiet down, so that's when I said, "listen, it was great meeting you today, I'll see you in class tomorrow."
She responds with a grin, "I have to tell you something, William. I lied to you earlier about having a boyfriend because I didn't know if I could trust you, and honestly, I just didn't feel any sort of connection. But I change my mind."
I immediately whip my phone out of my pocket, put it on "add contact" and say, "tell you what Olivia, why don't you give me your number and I'll give you a call sometime?" after putting it into her hand. I really don't even know how I thought about a gesture like that. I guess confidence really does build up really quickly if you actually do something amazing.
Now, I have her number, I can call whenever I want, I'm a happy man.
It all goes to show that everything begins with "hi".
So, rushz0rz, if that doesn't fucking motivate you, I really don't know what will.
