I love reading these articles as I'm "not in the game anymore." I met my wife through mutual acquaintances / friends. Just said "Hi."

Back when I was dating, I basically never tried to pick up someone at a bar or club. I have strange hearing and can barely hear voices over background noise. So no matter what a girl would answer my reply would be, "What?" For all I know half the time they were saying, "Douche bag says 'What?'"

I got over the "I just want a hot girlfriend" phase of my life after the disaster of my first professional model girlfriend. But that is a story for another time.