First daygame report, not much happening yet.

I felt that today was the first day that I actually went out with the intent to open on someone and see where that went. I was running a few errands around the local stores, and I realized that this would have been a great occasion to try a few things out. I usually shop pretty late, especially grocery shopping after 10-11pm, so being out at 4pm the scene was very different.

In any case, I'm at Fred Meyers looking for random junk. I'm also constantly paying attention around myself to see if there's someone I could approach. For 15 mins it's just older couples or housewives, nothing interesting. Then I pick up a big trash can (which I needed..) and decide to stroll through the cosmetics section as I thought I had seen a good looking silhouette there from the distance. As I'm walking carrying the huge fucking trashcan in my hands, I see a 9 standing in one of the aisles. She hadn't seen me. I wasn't really scared, but I also didn't know what to do. I walked into an adjacent aisle and then we crossed paths. All I could do was say "Hi" and smile and walk by.. those were my 3 seconds, gone. I guess what I should have done was approach her the first time I saw her from the back and say something like "Hi, my name is blabla, I don't usually do this, but I saw you from far away and I knew I wanted to meet you", but that didn't even cross my mind. Also even if it did, it's doubtful I would have done it.

On my way out, walked by a 7 who was doing her own thing, and I also didn't do anything about it. Still didn't know what to say to her.

At the grocery store, this cute girl was standing right behind me picking salads or something like that, and I was looking at almonds. We spent about 10 seconds there, and I was trying to think of something to day. The best I could think of was "Hm do you know which almonds are better?", which sounded so retarded at the time that I just shut up and stood there for a while. I felt that she was purposefully standing right next to me, testing me to see if I would have said anything... No clue what I should have said, nothing good was coming up.

In the end, I was aware of my surroundings, noticed opportunities where I might have missed them in the past, and I tried to think of things to say. You could say that it's basically Wygant's 7 day challenge, except I really wish I could just bite the bullet and say something.

I think the 3 second rule is the key here. I'm overthinking what to say. Now I just need to grow some balls and blurt something out.