If at any point you find your target accusing you of trying to "pick her up", you need to reframe the interaction. Show that you aren’t trying to do a pick-up, but simply meet her and see what she’s like.

(That's good...that's the best "pick-up" line I’ve ever heard) "That's not a "pick-up" line... it's an "I WANT TO MEET YOU LINE!"

"I don’t "pick up" women…I MEET them."

"For this to be a pickup/pickup line, first I’d have to be INTERESTED in you." Say this with a cocky smirk. This one is usually best for the real hard-ass bitches. If she happens to ask "Well, are you?" pause a few seconds while looking at her, then say "I’m still trying to figure that out".

"I’m NOT picking you up. I’m trying to get to know you to SEE if you’re worth picking up." Again, make sure she sees a mischievous smile on your face.

(Have you done this to like a hundred women or something?) "Nope, I’ve only done this to a thousand." (When women accuse you of player behavior, don’t squirm. Instead escalate it). OR "How many women have you done this to?" You reply "THOUSANDS" or "Do you mean just today, or this week?"

(Do you do this to every girl?) "Only the ones who ask silly questions."

How many girls do you do this to? "Why? Do you wanna meet girls? Do you want me to show you how?"

WHAT MAKES A GOOD OPENER?

Let there be no doubt: When you approach an attractive woman and open her, she KNOWS you want to sleep with her. You’re NOT fooling her. She knows you don’t just go up to ugly old ladies and say "Nice purse", or walk up to ugly, deformed bums on street corners and say "Hi!" So don’t pretend that you’re just out to "make conversation" or just kill time. The KEY to pulling off a successful approach is to signal through your body language, voice tone, and verbal communication that YES you want to sleep with her, but that you DON’T REALLY CARE whether you do or not…or that you’re not really sure yet if she’s worth it.

Now, on the subject of verbal communication (your opener), there are two main categories of openers: DIRECT and INDIRECT. Direct would be something that communicates outright "I’m interested in you", and Indirect would be an opener that leaves ambiguity in the interaction, leaving some doubt in her mind that you’re trying to pick her up—meaning that even though she knows you want to sleep with her, she can’t tell yet if that’s the reason you’re talking to her at the moment.

Whichever style you choose, the openers you use must be ORIGINAL. A study conducted in New York City showed that the average woman was approached 37 times per day by male strangers interested in meeting her. (Now that’s the "average", so imagine the attention a really HOT woman must get). Most of these guys use UNoriginal approaches like just saying "Hi" or "Yo baby, what’s up?" Or worse, they make a comment on some part of her anatomy. If YOU were an attractive woman, and you heard crap like that 37 times a day, what would you do? You’d start to AUTOMATICALLY ignore them and get turned off by it. Think of the last time you walked downtown in a big city, and remember how many bums approached you asking for change. Odds are before one of them even opened his mouth, you were all primed to say "No" or just plain ignore him as if he wasn’t there. It was an automatic response because you’re used to behaving like that in the presence of a bum after being approached for change so many times. Now what happens when you see a bum with a witty sign with him, or a decrepit-looking animal beside him, or with a really bad sob story, or one who has a very friendly, charismatic approach? A lot of the time it breaks your pattern and you find yourself giving him change. Likewise, using an unoriginal opener that a woman’s heard a million times will trigger her automatic response, and she’ll dismiss you, BUT using an original approach will break her pattern and her automatic response will be disarmed.

Another thing you have to watch for is that your opener not be DUMB. Don’t ask something like "Nice shoes, where did you get them?" WHY could you possibly want to know this? Are you a cross-dresser? Do you plan to go buy those $200 shoes for your sister’s next birthday? It’s obviously just a pointless, BORING question that says nothing about you and makes you look like a weasel. Another example is the infamous "Do you come here often?" What does it matter if she’s there every week or just once a year? It’s pointless so it flops.

So what makes for an original opener? Anything humorous, off-the wall, DIFFERENT. Something not too cheesy. Something that signals interest but also shows a little cockiness. Something that engages her interests and gets her wanting to open a discussion with you. Most importantly, something that DOESN’T suggest that you’re all ga-ga over her, like "You’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen" or "Wow, you’re so hot" (these openers give HER too much power and set the wrong tone for the interaction). The more of these factors you can combine into your opener, the better.

Feel free to come up with your own openers using the above criteria, or for fitting certain situations. Here are a few I’ve come up with or come across that do a good job of standing out and getting attention from your target: