Heres also a little trick, albeit a little riskier but it shifts the emphasis off of you and onto the situation:
Go to a mall with a movie theater and hang around the ticket counter and make a note of what time it is and match it with whatever movie is about to start, hopefully one halfway decent youd like to see. Find a girl and go up to her and say "I was meeting someone here and they had to bail on me for XYZ reason and I really hate seeing a movie alone, would you mind filling in?" Tell her she would get a free movie (matinee price, of course). If she agrees, then youve bought time during the movie to guage her interest and think about where you want to take her afterwards, probably the food court, say you were hungry after that movie or something. Boom, insta-date.
If she turns the offer down, go to the next girl, if you keep getting turned down with this tactic you are still gaining EXPERIENCE interacting with chicks.
Go to a mall with a movie theater and hang around the ticket counter and make a note of what time it is and match it with whatever movie is about to start, hopefully one halfway decent youd like to see. Find a girl and go up to her and say "I was meeting someone here and they had to bail on me for XYZ reason and I really hate seeing a movie alone, would you mind filling in?" Tell her she would get a free movie (matinee price, of course). If she agrees, then youve bought time during the movie to guage her interest and think about where you want to take her afterwards, probably the food court, say you were hungry after that movie or something. Boom, insta-date.
If she turns the offer down, go to the next girl, if you keep getting turned down with this tactic you are still gaining EXPERIENCE interacting with chicks.