Approaching with your (non-lair) friends

I always wanted to do this stuff. Approach a set or two when chilling
along with my friends. The ultimate goal being - making 'approaching
sets' a second nature of myself. Y'day happened to one of those days
when I did actually approach a few sets when hanging out with my non-
lair friends. And they were highly cool with it. I always knew that
they would only encourage my 'talking to strangers' attitude. And,
sure they did especially the girls.

I saw this cute lone-wolf while we ( HDP, HDL, HBSP and me (HD-
>HotDude, HB->HotBabe)) were chilling-out on a cuppa cold coffee at

Barista. After a while the lonewolf went outta sight. Then as we were
ejecting I saw the lone-wolf again.
Me : Hey HBSp , I want go talk to her.
HBSp: Yeah sure lets go.
( We start walking towards lone-wolf - Lets call her HBN (HB-7.5) )
HBSp: But, I won't start the conversation with her.
Me : Don't worry I do all the talking, you just be there along with
me.

HBSp: Hey Preetu, lets go back man :P.
Me : No, No. We are already knee deep lets get over this.
HBSp: OK. Lets do it.

Me to HBN: Hey Hi, Can we join you?
HBN : (Smiling) I am sorry. I am waiting for my friends to join me.
Me : Hey NP, I just wanted to come here and compliment you .
Me : You have a unique sense of dressing. I like it.
HBN (Smiling) : Hey thank you very much.
Me : I am Preetham. This is my friend HBSp.
HBN (Thrusting her palm out) : This is HBN.
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We blabber around for a minute or two.
Me : HBN, We will leave you to wait for your friends now. Cya.
HBN: It was nice meeting you guys.
Me and HBSp: Same here. Have a nice day.

Well, having a female friend by your side surely does help. Girls are
more open to your approach.

After the approach when we joined our other two friends. HBSp can't
wait to tell the story of the approach. She is all excited :-). I felt
good for it was a whole new experience approaching with my female
friend by my side.

I did one more set as we were walking down the brigade road. A set of
4 UGs blabbering about "Jhoom barabar jhoom". And I open them with "Is
that movie that great". And we talked about movies as we walked down
stretch of brigade road. After the set my friends were appreciating me
for the opening.

Lesson I learnt was invaluable. Don't hesitate to approach when you
are hanging out with your non-lair bros. Each approach will help you
earn more respect from your friends. And further they might get
inspired... and there is nothing more satisfying than "Spreading the
light - the light of the game".