Last week, 300 men paid actual money to go to DC and be trained by professional pickup artists at the Global Pickup Conference. Naturally, once they got to the conference they headed to the best place to pick up women: The Pentagon City Mall (where women’s pantsuits abound!) The men were told to “Prepare for Affection from EVERY direction!” but mostly they just creeped out women by hitting on them at Victoria’s Secret and got kicked out of the mall for trying to get 16 years olds numbers at Macy’s (unless they paid an extra $500, in which case they got to go out in Dupont with 2 pickup artists… hot damn!)
This article details the entire experience and will give you a good case of the heebie jeebies:
http://www.tbd.com/articles/2011/02/under-guidance-of-pickup-artists-men-learn-how-to-pick-themselves-up-49208.html