You’ve Been Abducted!
November 13, 2007 
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You’ve Been Abducted!
By David Wygant
Let’s have some fun today.
Look out your window and pretend that there’s a big dark Suburban sitting out there waiting to take you to a deserted island in the South Pacific. This is neither Jack Bauer protecting you from some evil espionage, nor is this LAX Shuttle Express taking you to Los Angeles International Airport.
The island you’re going to is set up for only two people. The only thing you are going to have on this island is a shack with a bed. You will have enough food to survive for thirty days, and you will have a cell phone so that you can call your Mom.
The only thing you have to bring is someone you meet that day. In fact, you have just six hours to find the perfect stranger with whom to spend thirty days. Think for a second about this.
You need to find someone with whom you get along, because the cell phone provided to you on this island has no battery recharge. So if you don’t like whomever you’ve decided to take along, you’re in for a LONG thirty days.
So how would you go about finding this person? Most people cannot meet people in a six hour time frame.
To top it off, this six hour window you’re being given is between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm on a weekday. Has panic struck you yet?
• What are you going to do?
• Where are you going to go?
• Where are all the people to meet between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm in the middle of the week?
• What happens if you meet only one person, and it’s someone to whom you are not attracted and with whom you do not get along?
This is interesting. The other day when I asked all of you in my blog to tell me what topics you would like me to blog about, a reader asked me to talk about how to meet people during the week if you work weekends.
One way to meet people is to pay attention to everything that is around you. You are not the only one who is out in the middle of the day. I mean, when you’re in the grocery store do you hear over the loudspeaker “Attention everyone! Please vacate the store because Mike needs to do private shopping!”
Do you think if you only had only six hours to meet somebody that you would take action instead of always waiting? It seems like most people will wait for the perfect moment to talk to someone. Each minute you wait turns into another day you wasted.
If you had six hours to find someone with whom to spend thirty days on a deserted island, don’t you think you would go to the most crowded places in your town or city and start talking to everyone?
So why would it take being abducted by aliens in a black Suburban whisking you away to a desert island to get you to start interacting with people in a way that you should be doing every single day? Try this today!
When you’re out and about – whether you’re running your errands, getting coffee, or getting your lunch – start chatting up people. Stop worrying about what to say . . . and just start talking! I personally guarantee that if you start chatting up people wherever you go, that people will start walking up to you and chatting you up.
So instead of being forced to wear a sign in front of the local Wal*Mart that says “Come with me to a desert island – I only have twenty minutes to decide,” you’ll actually get to choose a person you WANT to bring with you.
That desert island is really in your head, and inside your head you’re alone with your thoughts. It’s those thoughts that are sabotaging your mind and your ability to meet people.
You are already alone on that desert island. Why not invite someone to play with you?
Today’s video is all about how to get her attention when walking by her on the street. I suggest all women to watch this as well the advice will work both ways.
What??? I am first in line today??SWEET;)
David;
Love the $10.00 bill trick..beats a card trick any day lol;)
Hey, if I were faced with such a challenge, I would be everywhere that was open talking to people. I think you can all tell by my posts, I am no longer a shy wallflower. I love to listen, and I love to talk to people and get reactions. It is a blast!!!
My problem would be—-now who gets to be the one to go to a deserted island where food and water are secondary?? lol
If I am in that atmosphere (or any other;) ) I am ready for playing, passion, punning and funning. A sense of humor is the first thing I have to have with me for 30 days. Gahhhhd…have you ever spent a day—an HOUR with someone who doesn’t joke around?? PURE HELL!
If the man has a sense of humor, loves sex, is gentle, tender, loving and kind who can carry on conversation—-cum aboard!! lol
This man will have to LOVE every facet of a passionate woman wanting to please and be pleased.
Walking on the beach, playing in the water, making love on the shore—how cool—no one to worry about??
WOW This place is great! Can we make it 60 days and when does the plane leave Tatoo?? LOL
Joan
You mean this one.
Nightmares from this show as a kid!!!
Joan,
I fit in those requirements pretty well, shall we go???
Let’s meet in some great place like Costa Brava in Spain
Stubby
Kate: Will you go with me?
Thanks for the offer Jim, but I’m ineligible under the rules of this hypothetical …
David;
I am human Boss!
LOL……please! Thanks for the memories———of all the nightmares that Perve Villachez gave me—-oh HERVE??? I am sorry..my mistake! LMAO
What ever happened to him. I just didn’t like his tone of voice—oh wait–that is what I DID like about him. Oh I am being mean:(
Stubby:
Is your name an indicat…..never mind———-Costa Brava Spain it is!
Let me grab my maracas ans we are set—you got your marracas??? LOL
I am playing with you—-how bout the castanets??
Yea, forget clothes as long as all the instruments for making music are packed!!!!!! LOL It will be fun!
OH———-David:
When you get a chance, you have a a bulletin on MY Space?? It would be fun to see your answers to those questions—LOL I hav fun with it. I know I will be getting reprimand for some of my answers from my daughter! LMAO
Kate:
WHAT???????????????????????????????????? LOL
Bertie: Will you go with me?
Joan, the premise of this blog is that you could only select someone you meet in the next six hours, on a weekday, between 10 and 4 etc … I’ve “known” Jim on this blog for awhile now … we have to play fair, right?!
Oh, and I second the “Fantasy Island gave me nightmares as a kid” comment …
Kate, Just think it would be something like this!
http://www.joblo.com/images_movie_reviews/napoleon_dynamite.jpg
Actually I have used the “hi how’s you’re day” quite a few times. Just have fun, and maintain a lot of both momentum and energy, and you will be fine.
15 extra minutes really can do a big difference! And if we’re already there, why not make it 30?
I’m taking it that I have to start out totally “cold”… meaning I’ve never met ANY of these people before in my life…
First, I’d probably send out an email to all of my local friends to set me up on the “ultimate blind date”.
They know my style VERY well. Once we found a few “winners”, I’d drive around quickly and play a quick game of “elimidate”…
But, maybe that falls through…
Then, I’d call my friend Bryan in Atlanta and tell him to talk to Danielle, who has more female friends than anyone I know…
And if that didn’t work, I’d call David and go… “Hey buddy, you got any scraps laying around over there…”
LMFAO
Seriously though, if I were 18-24, I’d go hit up the colleges in the RTP area (UNC, NC State, Duke… okay… not Duke) and walk the eating areas during lunch.
I’d also make a media circus about it and call a few of the local radio stations and try to get a few live remotes on campus to up my social proof BIG TIME.
But that’s just me…
BRAD:
LOL Something tells me that within 2 hours you would have it all packed up, wrapped up and ready to rumble. LOL
You don’t need any scraps baby…you do fine on your own I am sure of it—-But thats just me….;)
Brad: DUDE! Follow David? No F’ing way! OH, but David did me this way! OH and David did me that way! I wish you were David!! LOL! F!
JIM:
WHAT??????????????????????????????????????LOL
Hey Jim,
Here’s what I’m thinking… and why I wouldn’t be concerned about that…
Number 1: No matter how good I am at anything… there will always be someone better… hell… even Big D might not be the best she’s had.
Number 2: After 30 days of having nothing else better to do… I’d bet that I could find at least a FEW things that would differentiate me from anyone else.
Number 3: I definitely won’t be the worst… ha, ha, ha.
Number 4: Who knows, maybe I learn something new and play it off like I already knew it. So if she goes, “but he did it THIS way”… I could say, “Sweetheart, you have no patience… I was JUST getting to that”
LOL
Brad;
I don’t think we’ve met yet. Hey, there is this challenge I am face with that has to do with 2 people on an island for 30 days?? Would you be “up” for something of the sort??? LMAO
I know it would be a hell of a fun time. You make me laugh way to much..Just seeing your name—-I start laughing!
Sure, only if we can go gator hunting with our bare hands… must… cook… gator meat in the wild… mmmmm
Great, now I’m hungry.
Brad: DUDE!!! My point was i dont follow buddies, regardless. Its my issue, and at this point I consider David a buddy! LOL!
Kate: Working on my skills!
BRAD:
Can we use our feet too?? lol One swift kick in the head—–you got your dinner darlin. You skin em I’ll cook him and feed it to ya too! Then what for dessert—banana maybe?? LOL
Great, now I’m REALLY hungry! Rats!
I hope everyone remembers that this was my absolute WORST case scenario… lol
I feel pretty confident in my first two options… although I really wanted to see what other people would do in this same situation.
Where would you go?
What would you do?
Are there any HOT spots in your city or town that would have a guarantee?
I would say if there is not a guarantee in the city or town you live in—-location, location, location———-TIME TO MOVE!!!!!! LOL
I would go to the GYM, hit the classes that mostly woman attend. That would be successful.
Shit, I forgot about the gym…
Brad, Brad, Brad:
Now how are YOU of all people gonna forget the gym???
Its all that gator meat ruining your ability to think. Eat more cokadile—er—I mean–crockedile>>>>>>>>>LOL
Well, I am ready to go on my island adventure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have found the sexiest,,,saxiest man alive ..MMMMMMMMM
I am taking Dave Koz and 30 days Haaaa See ya whenever folks!!!!!!!!!
Damn, now we are talkin sexy, saxy, confident man whewwwwwwwww!
So Jim, I’m number two?
Sorry dude, but I’d bring my Dive Master. I’m going to an island. I’m going to do some diving.
Bertie: label by numbers? Never! Next!
Do you scuba Jim?
As far as Fantasy Island giving you all nightmares. The opening shots of the house are from the county arboretum in Arcadia where I did a majority of my growing up. Its the old Lucky Baldwin house. Its across the street from the Santa Anita race track. I could just never lose myself in the story, when I watched, to have any sort of dream about it.
Bertie: I can dive, but not scuba.
Funny Jim! That’s too bad, I’m still looking for a good scuba partner.
Bertie: Like i said…. NEXT!
to bertie,
the lucky baldwin house? Tell me about it…
I’m not sure anymore, but as memory serves me. Lucky Baldwin had a big orange grove in that area way back. The home is on the arboretum grounds. We used to go up there as kids and feed the peacocks. When my dad was a kid, the area of Monrovia, Arcadia and in the foothills there were all orange groves. My grandparents built their home off of Rosemead Blvd in the old pictures my Mom has are some lovely orange groves. I remember my Mom and my Aunt taking me into downtown LA where many times I saw my last name on the sidewalk. Apparently, when my Grandfather was told to get a job outdoors for his health, he and his brother went into contracting. The last name is pretty unique and not one you see everyday. Lots of interesting history down there….
to bertie,
.your last name on the sidewalk? Are you talking the star walk on hollywood blvd?
Oh heavens no, but there is a lovely actress with my last name. I’m quite certain that we have some common relative because the name is unusual. It was imprinted in the sidewalk when the sidewalk was made. Its in downtown LA, not Hollywood. Two very different places.
to bertie,
oh,,,hmm…
To Hunter…..
uuuuhhhh…….
to bertie,
…I will look at the sidewalk for your name, I am downtown often……
As I remember it is in Boyle Heights very predominately.
To bertie,
did the sidewalk slide to the east? hhmmmmhh, how funny!….first it was downtown….just teasing you….
Hunter,
LOL!
I saw one in downtown, for sure because that’s where we were….try to remember that I must have been about ten or eleven at the time. The only reason I remember it at all was I’d never seen my last name anywhere but on my homework. I remember my aunt saying something about Boyle Heights….never been there before. Personally I’d prefer to leave big tracks in mud…now thats my thing.