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TIFU by failing to talk about Chainsaw Man

For some context I am 22 year old, fairly large black man and am in a new city for work. I really don't go out much because in the past I've had a lot of health problems that have kept me from going to events. I was very nervous at first but I'm feeling healthy and everything is going great so far! The people in this new city have been very nice to me and have gone out of their way to chat. The area I used to live in was an area where people wouldn't even look at each other and actively crossed the street to not be close to me so I'm really enjoying the change so far.

This is Great! However I'd forgotten how awful I am at conversation...During lunch today I went to Subway and noticed the girl in front of me was scrolling through Insta and liked a reel with the Angel Devil from Chainsaw Man. I'm a huge anime nerd, recently saw the Reze movie and I decided to try and go out of my comfort zone to try to talk to her. Since I don't talk to people often, I was really in my head about it and decided that I should wait until she pays for her food and is on the way out just in case she didn't want to talk.

So I'm going over all the different ways I could bring up Chainsaw man in my head, and hoping that we're close in age so it wouldn't be awkward and my whole train of thought gets jumbled because the subway guy asked me a question I wasn't ready for. By the time I was done responding she was at the checkout and I rushed and completely lost my already jumbled train of thought and I started off saying "Excuse me I'm sorry, but I wanted to ask how old you are" and then I got in my own head and started to ramble and say "I'm 22 and just thought you'd be about my age and..." she then cut me off and very quickly said 24 and before I could follow it up with "I'm sorry I'm just asking because I saw Chainsaw man on your insta", she BOLTED out the Subway and I stood there like oh...man...yeah that was bad... I then turned around and the subway guy had such a look of embarrassment and dread on his face it has been burned into my mind.

In my head I was going to say something like "Excuse me is that Chainsaw Man? I'm sorry I noticed you liked the angel devil on Insta" and then I'd introduce myself with I'm 22, just moved out here, how old are you! I'd love to talk more! But I rushed and completely forgot the first part and then kinda just kept fumbling from there...

I was hoping shed ask "Oh why'd you ask how old I was" and then I'd lead into "I'm 22 I just moved here and I'm looking for friends and I love chainsaw man I'd love to talk about it" but in hindsight yeah there was no wayyyyy that would've happened.

After hearing this story my friends have labelled my "rizz" as "Epstein level of rizz" and my mother and sister have not stopped laughing at how terribly I screwed that up 😂

In conclusion we live and we learn, I'm going to use this as an experience to get better. Next time I will just talk about Chainsaw Man. And to the girl I attempted to start a conversation with at subway I would like to publicly apologize. I am so sorry, I'm really awkward and don't usually talk to people. 🙏🏾

TL;DR: I tried to talk to a girl at Subway but did not realize how terrible I am at trying to start a conversation. Before I could talk about Chainsaw Man she ran away.

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