Pickups by proxy
hi there
i'd love to surprise my Master with someone like you. if you'd be interested in chatting about it, please drop me a note sometime
This approach stands on its own, of course, as yet another impressively poor email introduction. But let's say that you're in a relationship where you like to, or are asked to, pick up partners for your partner. What's the best way to do that?
In many ways, whether you're trying to pick someone up for yourself or for your friend or lover (or "Master", though y'all won't be surprised to know that term rubs me the wrong way, and my feelings on the gratuitous capitalization are... well... not good), how to approach it is the same: You want to express yourself clearly -- what you're looking for, and why this person seems like s/he'll be a good fit, as well as a bit of appropriately tempting advertising so as to pique your target's interest.
What's different about one of these, though, is that if you're doing the picking up on behalf of someone else, you'd better explain why it is that you're doing it, and how your target can know that this won't be just a big clusterfuck. That is, I get an email from someone wanting to pick me up for his friend and I wonder, how can I know that just because this guy is interesting and writes well that his friend will, too? In the case of the above email, I wonder, what exactly is this "Master" looking for, what's the context in which the person who sent me the mail is trying to pick me up, and what does that have to do with me? More information is definitely in order.
Interestingly, an email that's geared toward picking someone up on someone else's behalf automatically stands out a bit from the crowd, because they're rather unusual. I've probably gotten three in the course of the last year, out of thousands. They don't even have to be spectacularly impressive to stand out, therefore. On the other hand, because they imply a higher level of complication, they do need to be clear, right from the outset, that this situation isn't going to lead me into a pile of psychodrama. Unfortunately, none of them have done that, so far. Is this inherent in any situation where the would-be-fucker is not the person making the approach? I'd like to think not, but it rather seems that way.
