Airport Hookups

First of all, airports are places that women go to connect to other places, right? If you think about the psychology of the airport, about half the time youýre traveling for business, and the other half youýre traveling for pleasure. But 100% of the time you want it to be pleasure.

So if I see a woman standing in line at Starbucks ý because there is basically a Starbucks in every single airport ý I would just say to her, ýso, where are you heading to?ý

She might respond, ýwell, Iým heading to San Francisco.ý I can ask, ýreally, do you live there?ý She says, ýno, Iým just going on business.ý

Then you can say, ýalright, so weýre in an airport. If you could go anywhere right now, where would it be?ý If someone is just going for a business trip, itýs not that big of a deal. They might be going to a great city, but if they are there on business, they probably wonýt be able to see much of it.

But if you can get someone to talk in fantasy-mode ý if you can get them to talk about where they really want to go ý then the conversation can be more fun.

For instance, if the woman says, ýoh, Iýd much rather go to Italy,ý you can ask, ýwhy Italy? What about Italy? Where in Italy?ý If youýve been to Italy, you can contribute something to the conversation and you can have a conversation about where you want to visit and where youýve been.

Itýs fun. Youýre also getting someone out of that whole ýoh my god, I canýt believeýý zone. ýI canýt believe I have to go on this business trip.ý Youýre getting her to think about things and talk about things that are pleasurable. Youýre talking about things that are fun.

If youýre looking up at the flight departures/arrivals board you can do the same thing. Look at her and say, ýwhere are you heading to?ý She answers, ýoh, Iým heading to Iowa.ý You ask, ýokay, if you had to pick any place on this whole board, where would you go and why?ý And you say it with a really big smile.

Thatýs how you start conversations in the airport. Make it fun, make it quick, and just be different! You can find out so much about someone when you do it in this way. Not only that, youýll be able to find out where they live, where they are going ý and who knows? Maybe they are from your hometown but are heading off for vacation, and you can have dinner with them when they return

Or maybe they are heading to the same place you are, and you have a date as soon as the plane touches down!

So what about on the plane? Particularly if youýre not sitting next to them?

Itýs really the same thing on the plane. You take an inventory of where they are sitting, and then when you get up to use the restroom, you smile at them as you walk by. Sheýs probably totally bored on the plane, and she sees you smiling at her, and then the next time you pass by to go to the bathroom, just smile at her again and ask, ýhowýs the flight?ý Or you could say, ýoh man, you are so lucky youýre sitting back here right now, Iýve got the kid kickers behind me! You wanna switch?ý

Iýve done that. Or sometimes Iýll walk over and Iýll look at her and say, ýare the flight attendants treating you as well as theyýre treating me? Because Iým sitting up front.ý Iýll play around with it, and have a good time.

Those things work every single time on an airplane. You donýt need any more. Those are just simple ways to approach.

Now what if you see people in the concierge part of the airport ý not near the gates, would you still just approach them and say, ýwhere are you heading to?ý

Why not? ýWhere are you heading to?ý Letýs say youýre sitting in the lounge, waiting to take off and the woman in there is cute. You can stand next to her and say, ýgoing home, or going on vacation?ý If sheýs on your flight, youýve already made contact ahead of time. ýGoing home, or going on vacation?ý Thatýs how you do that.

Letýs say youýre walking around, killing two hours in the airport between connecting flights. You see a woman sitting in an area that implies sheýs going to San Francisco, and youýre going to Los Angeles. You go over there and sit down next to her and ask, ýwait, is this the flight to LA?ý Sheýll say, ýno, itýs to San Francisco,ý and then you can say, ýoh man, I am so tired from traveling,ý and then share your story with her.

ýMan, Iým so tired right now, Iýve been on business trips all week long, and you know what? San Francisco sounds much better than going to LA on business anyway! Are you from San Fran?ý You have her laughing and youýve shared a little bit of a story. What happens next? You start communicating with her.

If youýre in a bookstore ý Iýve done this a lot as well ý and you see a woman with magazines, you can say, ýoh, People magazine ý you must have a long flight! Where are you heading to?ý Thatýs it. You donýt have to be so funny.

As I am writing this I am being chatted up by Alan a business traveler who has been making me read this whole thing to him and he has a question.
Go ahead Alan ask away.

Alanýý Right, you can get in a funny line a couple of minutes down the road, but I like to have a good, funny line to open, and thatýs where Iým thinking and not acting. And itýs like the three-second rule ý Iým sitting there waiting, and then itýs almost creepy when you wait too long!

David: Yeah, youýve waited way too long and things are not going well. And the fact is, once again, this should all be based on observations. Youýre not doing anything that is so earth shattering; youýre just getting inside her head. It goes to the whole theory of becoming a natural at doing this.

Youýre not walking over there saying, ýlet me ask your opinion, do you like 747s better or 767s?ý Youýre not breaking her train of thought. The reason why so many guys mess up, when it comes down to it, is that youýre pulling her out of her train of thought. You donýt want to do this.

When you pull someone out of their train of thought, youýre inevitably going to crash and burn. Sheýs not going to be thinking about what you just said. Youýre trying to make her think on an entirely different wavelength.

By opening her with observations, youýre getting her to think on the same wavelength of what sheýs already thinking about.

So there you have it in airports!

And Alan as you asked me what I was working on to strike up this last part of my blog, you can do the same with women!!

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