Well for a start..be very suspicious of a short moustached man whose opening line is....." hi, I fly hero-planes"
My own preferred approach is..." My family own a drycleaning business"...or.."Im a trainee mortician"
undoubtably this approach seems to be ahead of its time..as it's met with little/no success to date
Seriously though...I dunno, its a bit like fishing I guess..match the lure to match the target species. (actually come to think of it mayby I should follow my own advice
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