Leave it to the shy ones.
"Is there a base this guy hasn't covered?" she wonders. She grips the pencil in her teeth as delicately as if it were a rose, and spreads the papers out in front of her while lightly humming, "If I only had a brain.." She glances at the sleeping gent out of the corner of her eye and allows his uninterrupted 'slumber' to continue. Apparently he doesn't know that the only one who can get away with the possum act is, well, the possum. She leaves the Dichter to rest behind a smile that is vaguely reminiscent of when Zarathustra eats a hamster sandwich....

The blueprints for the PatterScanner are like nothing she's ever seen. The only thing that distracts her, from time to time, is the flutter of the handsome crackpot's eyelashes as he sleeps. (Back to work, woman!!) Brilliant. Under the chaotic boundary (i.e. bar room) conditions, the probability of finding a particular region of welcoming space is roughly the same as the probability of finding unwelcome space. However, with the main unit of the PatterScanner tucked away in a coat pocket, feeding information into an ear bud receiver, the chance of finding welcome space becomes increasingly more prevalent. She once again takes the pencil, begins to take notes and correct minor mathematics and wiring diagrams.

(his notes written in long-hand) The magnetic force varies inversely as the square of the distance, this holds true for attraction and repulsion. F=mH It matters not if the attractor is negatively or positively charged so long as the object of attraction is an uncharged body. The net attractive force is still applicable...(small sketch of Ben Franklin?)

"Hmm...he's covered the practicalities...." she reads on
wedding ring detector: if she's mad herself, is she madly mated??
key fob scanner: is she a masochistic rabbit-foot carrier, or is she plastic laden and "born to bingo"?
breathalyzer to analyze vapors in an attempt to send her her favourite drink: How did you KNOW I love Turkey Turd beer??
doppler pulse plastic indicator: to decipher what part of her body is live and what is memorex..
sarcast-o-meter: is she laughing at you or with you?
eye contact gauge: (funny...there's just a few lines drawings of dogs?)
interest meter: is she looking over your shoulder for an escape route?
supersuave synthesizer: to transmit a nasal voice as a soothing baritone
metaphor de-scrambler: so when she tells you that your love is just like Chachi and Joanie, you'll know how to respond..
nausea negator: to combat the effects of adding bar food to the butterflies in your stomach..
low-light TammyFaye electron sorter: to gauge the amount of make-up she's piled on battery pack: under the simple assumption that the property of magnetism can be transferred, one could set the unit next to a BigMick for an instant recharge.

All of this leading to the main unit:
compatibility calculator: applies the information gathered to a perfect-woman algorithm pre-set by the operator
pick-up line probability indicator: computes the pre-fed lines against the information that the PatterScanner has compiled to determine the adequate pick-up line. Contains everything from "Passerotto Mio, Il tuo nome suona alle mie orecchie come una melodia senza eta." -to- "Do you have any Canadian in you? Would you like to?"

The woman leans back in her chair, and massages her temples with the tips of her fingers.
"This calls for another beer.."