To facilitate the smooth trading of contact information, you should always be prepared with two things upon your person at all times: a 1) a custom-made “Me Card”, and 2) a stubby pencil (about 2" long). Don’t lug around a fancy flair pen because it suggests you’re a number-collecting loser, whereas a half pencil makes no particular such negative impression. It’s just some junk that happened to be in your pocket. Get it? Here’s a sample dialog when presenting the card: "I'm just fascinated to have met you like this. Could I give you my card? It would be great to meet you for lunch or maybe just a cup of coffee
sometime soon." Smooth and simple.
So what’s a Me Card? It’s a small personal-sized business card that you make up on your own, which therefore gives you complete control over what information goes on it. I’ll show you the exact format to use when designing yours in a moment. In a pinch you could hand her your company-issued
business card I suppose, but these things are as dry as desert dirt and they don’t really cook up any juice. Plus, there could be information on there (like your work number!) that you don’t want her to know about just yet. Better to crank out a few Me Cards instead and control who knows what about you.
The big idea behind the Me Card is to create a custom communication tool that is uniquely enticing to women because it gives you a chance to show off your stuff in a way that gives you: 1) an instant boost of credibility, and 2) an exciting thing to do on a first date! There’s two main goals here: introduce some hobby or skill that you’re good at, and present it in a way that suggests you
lessons or are a personal instructor of some kind!
For instance, suppose you enjoy sailboating, and you own a small boat. So, make up a simple card like the one shown below that proclaims you give sailboating lessons! Naturally, you don’t hand these away to just anyone, but only to those cute women who’ve responded favorably to a pull tab. She reads it and wonders “Hmmm, you know how to sail?” You say sure, and oh by the way would she like to go out for a “free lesson” this Saturday afternoon?
BINGO!... you’ve got yourself a fascinating and unique first date! Plus it’s an action date – the importance of which we’ll discuss completely in the next section. (For now just remember that action = passion.) And since this is something that you like to do and are competent about doing, you will be at your
best and sexiest showing off a cool skill that you’re both comfortable and confident about. Perfect!... Move over James Bond!
Capt. Mike Quint
111-5555 (Cell) Navigating & Steering 777-8978 (Work) Rigging & Tacking 564-9876 (Home) Shark Hunting
You can whip up Me Cards for yourself by printing them out on special 10- up card stock right from your own printer. A few bucks spent over at OfficeMax or Office Depot for the actual pre-cut business card stock puts you in business. I use the Avery 8371 style pre-perforated cards, and I layout the text and graphics using WordPerfect. There’s 25 sheets in a pack and you can print out 10 cards per sheet. Your dick will fall off before you can hand out 250 cards.
Proving that I practice my own crazy ideas, here’s an example of my very own Me Card. What’s my big thing in life that I’m interested in? Well, I’m a writer. Freelance and internet self-published – which is hardly Random House certified – but so what? Emphasize the good stuff and sweep all those,
ahem, minor details under the rug. So I churn these little babies out in bunches thusly:
Just look what a little chunk of 2x3 card stock accomplishes for me: it acts like a personal advertisement for a potentially impressive skill that I have, gives out my full name and however many different phone numbers that I want to, plus my e-mail address. Everything she could possibly need to get in touch with me – and it’s not goofy like some lame-o “singles dating card” (puke!). In addition, I can tweak the truth or just flat out lie like a fucking dog if I want to! Notice how it says I write children’s books? Although I suspect I could probably write one of those things with my bare feet on the keyboard (sEee dicKK rrun...) I never actually attempted one, but why let her know that? “Oh, you write children’s books too, how sweet...” Yep that’s me! Also notice that there’s no mention of my website address on the card? It’s not a good idea to let on to the women that I’m trying to meet that I write books about trying to meet women!
Finally, you can use the back of a Me Card to conveniently write down her information for yourself by using your little 2" pencil stub. You know, the one you always carry around in your breast pocket?
opportunity to add some intrigue to yourself by teasing her with the answer. It’s okay to puff up and embellish the story to make yourself into an “expert”, but don't break into a half-hour dissertation about what a wonderful sewer pipe layer you are. Hold back some friggin’ mystery!
And if you happen to be a‘mature’ gentleman reading this, there’s no need to get stupid and make up cards that proclaim you to be the world’s best
snowboarding instructor. For instance, maybe you like to build furniture or do woodworking in your basement shop, maybe just as a hobby. You’re pretty good at it... so toot your friggin’ horn! A Me Card for you might look like this:
Jim Skinnedknucles
555-3498 (Work) Custom Cabinetry 911-5555 (Cell) Kitchen Remodeling 555-7685 (Home) Patios & Decks [email protected]
Help!... I can’t stop myself! These things are like taking a dump... here comes another one:
Benny Sweetleaf
111-5555 (Cell) Sativa / Indica (Forget it narcs, it’s Sinsemilla
a hacked number) Custom Clones
Hey don’t laugh, I’ll bet this would work at a Phish concert. Just have them printed on cards that look like e-z-Wider papers and pass ‘em out!
What if you’re a garbage man or a dishwasher? Who cares?... I’m sure you can come up with something that’s speaks more to some passion in your life rather than the shitty job that you happen to make a living at. Maybe you like to custom airbrush motorcycle gas tanks as a part-time hobby, or volunteer your spare time at the local zoo to help hose down the baby hippos. Women dig this sort of thing... it means you have a goddamn life! So proclaim it proudly – this is all part of your Male Display, your peacock feathers. Don’t be afraid to show them off.