C&B French House Perspective 2

First stop (on a failed outing to Palo Alto) was a bar in which Musashi used the restroom. Approached hostess HB7 to practice openers.

[using friend-using-restroom-going to leave soon time constraint]
DVus: So what coffee do you serve here?
HB7: Just regular coffee.
DVus: Any other drinks...?
HB7: We have ...(alcoholic drinks)
DVus: Any non-alcoholic drinks?
HB7: We have virgin margaritas...
DVus: Any recommendations?
HB7: Well, I like the strawberry...
DVus: There is this one psychoanalysis... (strawberry fields...done wrong)
HBy: I don't believe that! That's BS
DVus: Eject as Musashi returns

back to dorm
ask transfer-neighbors what's up

DVus: Anything up tonight?
HB8.5: ...French House...
DVus: ...Palo Alto sucks...
HB8.5: I usually go out to SanFran for fun
DVus: ...like what?
HB8.5: Dancing
DVus: eject and request to be notified when they leave to French House

walking to French House with 2 transfers

...
DVus: (ghost story)
[talk about it]
Musashi: (hobo story)
HB7 positions herself so that HB8.5 is standing next to Musashi and that she and I are partially away from them
...

French House

Moved to two HB's sitting on bench
DVus: Do you guys know where the French bread is?
...
DVus: eject (failure to know how to escalate properly)

Upstairs

2HB's in a set
DVus: Do you guys know where the French Bread is?
luckily the 2 HB's were standing next to each other and both turned around to face me, leaving their set behind
HB7: No....cheesecake downstairs
DVus: Really?...(how French House should logically serve French bread)
HB7: Well...cheesecake downstairs...
DVus: eject (don't know how to escalate)
Musashi: Hey, nice dress....
too loud for them to regain notice

Downstairs again
2HB's downstairs as a pair
DVus: (French Bread)
... same result

~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~

It is quite obvious that, although the French Bread opener worked well (it shut the targets and their companions up), I couldn't go anywhere else from there.

The setting was just too loud to get any common sense across.
What I should have done was

a) learn how to escalate the convo (I got stuck in the French Bread opener...it died...I died)
b) isolate / neg the target
c) take the target to a quieter place (outside?)
d) practice more

Hopefully better luck next time

DVus