AIRPORT GOOGLY

The name may suggest playing cricket with the cricket team and being that cute kid in the add, no , that’s not this is all about…yes it involves the airport terminal but a shrewd version of this one may involve a library or a reading section of any club or café. Anyhow, airports are much better in this scam,

the reason will be explained in detail in the following words.

Objects required:

Take each of the scam as a mission, a war time mission rather than a peace time one. The equipment necessary in any mission is essential for its success. This one requires a cell phone with wifi capability or one equipped with GPRS like this one.

Mark:

a lonely girl(make sure she is old enough) sitting in the airport lounge waiting for  the flight announcement. If there are more than one available option, pick the one which is in your flight. So how do you do that??? Sherlock Holmes 101, just see the cover of her ticket. It is going to be one of the flights which are due to board in the next 1-3 hours, check your cover of the ticket, pick the one which matches. The above mentioned requirement is the secondary one. The PRIMARY requirement in this scam is that the girl is reading a book. Catching the name of the book won’t be a difficult job as by experience I can tell you that a girl closes the book to see here and there after every two pages (you do not believe me, go sit in some library for two hours and make the observation, two pages, face up, must!!)

EXECUTION:

When all the above mentioned criteria meet, which happens in almost 2 out of every 3 flights you travel, just Google (googly derived from) the book, the review , the story and some biography about the writer. You will need minimal information on all these because she is as bored as you…I usually adopt two ways…get to know the ending(from Google) and spoiling it for her. First way spoiling it correctly and saying “OMG, you haven’t read it, I’m so sorry I spoiled it for you, just couldn’t control my book hormones” or using a false ending (use your imagination, if you cannot, revert the ending by 180 degrees) and when she frowns you tell her “don’t worry I didn’t tell you the true ending, being a book/movie buff I know how awful it is when somebody spoils a  good book for you”. Yes this one is a long shot, buh hey, not all battles can be won.

And when she starts discussing the book or the writer, instantly change the topic by saying “so Lahore  han, 1^st time?” you will get all the necessary info needed…..:D then you can tweet “game on!!”

Extreme precautions:

Make sure she is traveling alone and her mother is not around the corner buying coffee. Scouting and observation is half the fun in this game, rest all is a mere formality…..just chill …life is too short to be flying around with no intentions…:D

Extra advice:

Avoid flights which land after 8pm at their destinations because the percentage of mark vs passenger ratio will go down to almost one percent…hence make everything count, and then wait for your luck to spring showers on you…:D