DEAR MISS MANNERS: Is it acceptable to wave at someone once you have made awkward eye contact? Or should you just wink and hit 'em with a terrible pickup line? Any help you can give me would be much appreciated, as this happens to me quite often. I have tried both options, and my counselor seems to think the pickup line is what gets them.
Also, what is your opinion on a guy's height? Because I have been told that once you get over 6 feet tall, you get more ladies, yet that is not occurring to me.
GENTLE READER: Huh? Presuming the best, Miss Manners hopes that you are simply seeking acceptable ways to start a dialogue with strangers of the opposite sex in order to get to know them better.
First, she strongly encourages you (and your "counselor") to stop thinking of ladies as something to "get."
Actually, there is no "second." Try thinking of women as actual people who enjoy real and interesting conversation -- not weird hand gestures, offensive or half-baked lines, or exclusive physical fetishes. Approach them as such and you should be fine -- or will learn otherwise quickly.
Miss Manners assures you that she has no opinion on height other than its convenience for out-of-reach items and further wonders how you plan on adjusting yours now that it has occurred to you.