How to Lock A Place Down
You ever enter a place with such swagger and importance that you think, “This is what 6 year old me envisioned being treated like when I would be older”? I’m talking dapping up the bouncer as the line to get in wraps around the block, velvet ropes (stanchions), being ripped open for you to squeeze past the group of NYC 8s wondering who you are, skipping lines as you give Maria the bathroom lady a kiss on the cheek and ask her about her daughter as you go in to do your thing, walking into the kitchen at your steakhouse to greet the chef, getting comped for new meals and desserts you never ordered, getting your girl freely through the rock climbing gym despite her not having a membership, or a plethora of other highly smooth, low-profile, high-action activities that’d make any individual buzz with curiosity as to who you are and why they don’t know you. Can you imagine going through your entire life, your parents going through their entire life, slaving away doing what they’re told: stay in school, work hard, don’t skip class, pay your bills on time, climb the ladder, be a good boy, be a good citizen, and eventually things will fall in line, only for them to not even experience a single second of what I’ve just described? Can you imagine being the one, the first and potentially only one to be treated like royalty in your family or friend group? As if you’ve been living a completely different life, you have a whole different identity from what your close ones know? They look at you with bewilderment, gazing into your eyes thinking, “Is this the Raw I know? How is he so connected? Was he in the Mafia all this time?” You owe it to your family to live like this and bring them along. You owe it to your friends and women to show them what a smooth operator they’re lucky to be dealing with. You owe it to yourself to live life with cheat codes that cannot be applied in GTA nor with solely money. You need more than just that to be likable and revered in clubs, bars, cafes, gyms, steakhouses, and any other venue you frequent. We will discuss the process of locating the best spots for locking down, figuring if they’re worth the squeeze, and the three main things you need in locking them down, and how to go about it, step by step.
Before that, let’s watch this legendary scene in Goodfellas where Henry takes Karen into the backdoor of the club through one of the most iconic one-shot scenes highlighting pure class and the highest level of locking down a place you can possibly imagine. This is what everyone should aim for when locking a place down, and while this is a movie, there’s no reason you cannot aim for this at your favorite spots if you hammer away at the main principles well enough.