"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
If you could trade places with any poster ever on So Suave
- Thread starter 9Volt
- Start date
"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
TheFixer14
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logicallefty
Moderator
Atom Smasher
Master Don Juan
The great thing about SoSuave is that we have access to the thoughts and philosophies of some great minds while still maintaining our individuality.
"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
TheGambino
Master Don Juan
I want to be myself, always, no matter how f8cked up my life is. I want to experience the joy of being me now and seeing myself in 10 years after reaching all my dreams and experience that joy. I love being myself no matter the circumstances.
ImTheDoubleGreatest!
Master Don Juan
taiyuu_otoko
Master Don Juan
Then you would become illlogical righty and none of your posts would make any sense. It might even create a collapsing singularity that would destroy Sosuave...
Once upon a time DavidDeangelo posted here under the name @sysnopyh. That dudes gotta be a millionaire by now.
"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
I'd trade places with like tom Brady for a day though. That'd be cool. Get out there and sling a couple lazers in a playoff game feel the vibe and be back to me in the am.
ChristopherColumbus
Master Don Juan
dustmuffin
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TheMonkeyKing
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Atom Smasher
Master Don Juan
This will let me be a cop for a few days, and you can fly my aerial cinematography business.
What say you?
"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
logicallefty
Moderator
That would be fun. I'd fly it! Being a cop isn't as difficult as people think, at least not to me. I think running a business of any size with any number of employees would be harder. I don't know if I have what it takes for that or not. The main reasons why many people can't be cops is because they either let their power go to their head and forget how to be a regular human being while also being a cop, and/or, they can't keep their cool and critically think under pressure.
wifehunter
Master Don Juan
Still rolling with the punches.
