Single in L.A.

Fella, if you’d like to engage in a little bit of:

Instead of:

Pay very close attention.

Further to my introduction of a little “how to” guide, I think it’s paramount to start you guys off with the most important thing: your approach. If you can’t do that right, it’s essentially curtains for you. Mess up this very simple, simple thing and she’ll never get to know if you’re a funny man, sexy man, old man, young man, black man, or even a hairy old black man that happens to be really quite nice.

Men often think that those cheesy lines are clever. Even worse, they KNOW they’re cheesy but think “at least I’ll get a laugh.” Wrong! The laugh is not a laugh with you. It’s an uncomfortable “oh my gosh that was the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. When is this guy going to go away” laugh-at-you type of laugh.

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