The Pick Up Artist-Gambits Be Gone

Mystery teaches the guys opening gambits, but I wonder if that would really work on me?

In watching The Pick Up Artist I am finding myself intriqued and a bit disappointed. It isn't that the advice Mystery is giving these guys is bad, it's just that I keep thinking:

• "Would this work on me?"

Most of the time my answer to that is no. For example, the super secret gambit that Mystery had never shared with anyone until Pradeep won the Goldilocks challenge? No way would I have gotten into that. Neither would any of my girlfriends. I mean, if some guy wants to put his hands on yours upon first meeting you, don't you feel like he's trying a bit too hard? (Ladies????)

The best "trick" a guy ever did to ask me out was when a bartender did some trick with a towel, and as I watched the towel slowly became shaped into the form of a particular body part on men. (Don't make me say it.) He then asked for my friend's lipstick, and wrote his phone number on the towel.

Now, while I say this was an interesting trick - it also didn't work. No way was I picking up some gross bar towel - even if it did have a cute guy's phone number on it. So in the end, he had to ask for my number anyway.

Maybe it's just me, but some of these "gambits" Mystery is teaching are really just tricks that girls will see through. I'm sure he does quite well with the ladies, and I'm sure most of the guys on the show will learn quite a bit from Mystery. (Let's face it tho, even the promo says these guys have zero game.)

I say this - if you're going to ask someone out - can't you do it in a straightforward manner? Does it have to be gambits and openers and storytelling?