Let's play pickup

After three nights trolling bars, our (appropriately dolled-up) reporter heard the good, the bad, and the ugly of how guys hit on girls

- SARAH ROSE

CONFESSION: WHEN IT comes to meeting men, I'm not a bar person. I find most of my dates through setups from friends and have been known to be a repeat offender on dating apps.

Then came this assignment: Spend a few nights out on the town and come back with the best - and most hideous approaches men use to pick up women for a night on the tiles.

So I dressed in uniform - skin, make-up, curves, black dress, boots, more skin - and headed out on three separate nights to a steak house, a hotel bar, and a neighbourhood watering hole.

Men, I learned many things.

The "What the hell?"

OPENER "How old are you?" asked a drunk Brit within 11 seconds. of my arrival at the steak house.

MY REACTION Eww. If you want to be attractive to a woman, say she's pretty, not old.

OUTCOME He was so handsy the bartender ran interference.

OPENER “Why do men die before women? ‘Cause they want to”, said a bro at the bar.

MY REACTION Misogyny won’t make a woman swoon.