Quote From: niagaraDr. Phil missed one target-rich environment --- the SHOE SHINE parlour! Discover it for yourself. If nothing else, you come away looking great, and can have a great time connecting with others personally or professionally in the 6 or 7 minutes it takes, plus any waiting time. Check out the line-ups, and jump in. LADIES; we've been missing out for too long! If your check list includes that he or she be well-groomed, the shoes say it all. If they are clean and polished, chances are so too are other areas of our lives. It won't hurt your career either. I was once told that "like Palm Pilots and cell phones, clean shoes are a Power Accessory". 
 
 
Yeah, but nobody talks at places like the shoe shine parlour. That brings up another problem. Say you are in a target rich environment. I'm not one to walk up to someone and start a conversation. I always figured if a guy was interested, he'd approach me. I guess I'm too insecure to just walk up to a gentleman and start a conversation. And how do you begin? What do you say? Maybe I just need some good opening lines to get the ball rolling????? What do you say to a guy so that he doesn't feel uncomfortable with you "hitting" on him or so that you don't look like a complete desperate fool?