Functional?

I was very happy with my findings on direct approaching during the day so I decided to test out the opposite and go functional. Now the thing with functional openers is they will work great every time but are hard as hell to transition with. With this in mind I decided to try out a technique I learned where you give a qualification statement in the hopes of force framing the girl to act a certain way.

The opener would go like this...

"Hey I only have a sec but do you know where X is?...(she answers) thank you, you know you're actually really friendly you must not be from this city!"

After that I could give value or take it however. The challenge? Do 20 sets with this. All my sets were during the day and every one was on my college campus.

I hate to say this but I found it didn't work well for me. The functional opener worked fine but as soon as I gave the qualification statement the interaction immediately felt forced. This wasn't true in ALL cases, and sometimes it worked and got a smile but not nearly enough. I played around with energy levels and tonality but was strict in keeping the same wording, even with the changes the usual response was an awkward "oh..uh...thanks"

However I did discover one INCREDIBLE functional opener that always seems to work and that's asking a girl for a cigarette...unfortunately I don't smoke lol.

I'm still a fan of just going in direct during the day...the only thing is that with direct it's 50/50. She either gets weirded out or else it's on like donkey kong, so might not be the most SOLID way but so far the most preferable.

As for going in functional?...well I haven't given up on it I suppose since it does open well but transitioning with a qualification statement didn't seem to work for me, even though I've seen it work for others. It could have very well been something to do with my delivery, but unless someone watches me, who does that well, I can't know.