@Starboy,
Personally, I have never had that happen to me in many thousands of approaches. Including when I lived in a small college town.
I know it happens to guys occasionally. There's a guy I know who day games, and has day gamed consistently for many years in the same one large-ish city. A few times a year he approaches either a.) a girl who tells him he approached her a year ago, or b.) some chick it turns out he knows (like the girlfriend or wife of a friend).
Almost every time it's happened he's said the girl was just like, "Oh haha! You approached me last year!" and he's like "Oh really? Well what happened then, help me remember!" and she is like "You were very charming but I was in a relationship." And then he will ask her well how about now, still in that relationship now or can I take you out now?
I believe once he said a girl he re-approached told him he said exactly the same thing to open her 18 months ago that he did that time. So I guess his openers don't change much
Only once do I recall him saying a woman was annoyed to get approached by him again.
I have certainly intentionally re-approached women I talked to earlier, either the same day/night, or a little later on (especially when I lived in a smaller town and you'd see the same people, or when I have a regular haunt I like to go to and you start noticing other regular patrons). I have an article on it:
Today I want to talk about two different but related kinds of opening: Shotgun opening, and Reopening You'll mostly use these with women in social nighttime venues (bars and clubs, parties, networking events), but they're practical by day as well, in the right places (charity events or rallies...
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As does
@Teevster:
Previously I laid out my new strategy of approaching – the “hit-and-run” strategy – which allows you to approach women without facing any strong form of resistance (such as “approach walls” – where women respond negatively to your approach). To recap, my hit-and-run strategy is based on first...
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If you're worried about being perceived as a guy who walks around telling women they're cute, then... why not switch openers?
If you're going direct, build up the skill of making genuine compliments. It makes a huge difference:
In the article on causes and cures for a moody girlfriend, a reader asks about how to compliment a girl, saying: “Hi there Chase, Can you write an article about compliments to girls that [you] are interested in. Not just from that you approached cold but girls that you met through hobbies or...
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If you genuinely like a girl's fashion, and compliment her on that... and then half a year later you genuinely like a girl's hair, and compliment her on that... and it turns out it was the same girl... then you just get to say, "Well see! You have great hair AND great clothes!"
Or you can go indirect, and then it's just starting conversations with women casually. If you start a casual conversation with a woman one day, and then three months later you start another casual conversation with her, the worst thing she can accuse you of being is friendly and sociable.
I know a guy recently who got two girls # and they were best friends and one of the girls sent him a wall of text lecturing him against using and manipulating girls to learn pickup lol.
Well, that's kind of a 1-in-10,000 chance there.
I've heard maybe one other story about something like that happening.
Really, it sounds like you need to work on frame control more than anything else.
I've never worried about "What if some girl I approach remembers I approached her before?" because I'm confident I could spin it into a positive:
You: I saw you over here and blah blah
Her: Hey... You said the same thing to me five months ago!
You: Did I? Then it must be because it's true. Destiny seems to have brought us together again!
Improve your frame control and 99% of these things guys worry about you will quit worrying about because at worst you'll defuse it... at best you'll turn it to your advantage.
I'd love to meet some girl who claimed I'd approached her before. Would she be intrigued? Would she make assumptions about me I could then deftly parry? How would that go?
Further, I would love for some girl to get pissed and send me a long text message about how I was manipulating women. The first thing I'd do is call her and try to get her talking to me so she could hear my voice and discover I am a fantastic guy and that thing earlier was all just a mixup. Then playfully invite her and her friend both out on a date with me together (then settle for just her when she balks).
Get your frame control down.
These worries will quit bugging you then.
Chase