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.
USA has been wearing masks since Spring. EVERYWHERE
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.
The biggest difference between US and the rest of the world is each state(and city) in the US has different laws and rules and thus aren't unified in their approach. Where as you see more unification in other countries as a whole. Things can only be effective if treated as a whole. But that also needs compliance and the same belief from everyone. Communist countries or ones with more of a strong arm dictator style has an easier time to just throw down the hammer without much resistance.
Basic response across states has been the same, except for minor differences.
I agree but the implementation and results have been different between them. I find the quarantine and restricted list of states to be bogus and comical though because unless EVERYONE got tested, the figures for positive covid results are arbiturary at best. Let's say one week you have 2000 people just randomly having extra time to get tested while the next week you only have 300 people willing to get pro-actively tested. Totally a logic fail and why these restricted states lists are BS.
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.
No, I don’t secretly wish for more senseless covid deaths due to the incompetence of this government.
Nooo, don't take it donnie, it's novichok!!!
The quarantine lists are based on %positivity of tests, not total number of positives.
Trump has been wearing masks since July. You are talking old news. No country has 100% cooperation.
Yeah but it's still flawed though as you only have people voluntarily getting tested and not everyone. That was my point.
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.
No he has not.
That’s not flawed all. Everyone not being tested is our own governments failure to produce widespread testing availability.
You seem like you depend on too much on the government and so called health experts but I digress. Go on about your life and I'll do the same.
You might want to visit China, oh, wait, just Hong-Kong would be fine...
Public health is the government’s responsibility. Theres no escaping the failures of the US leadership on this issue.
Might have qn argument there. Don't know exact stats on people's cooperation in various countries.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
Rather strange that all the world leaders who did not take masking seriously ended up with Covid 19.
At what cost
just so you know even the ones who take the virus "serious" caught it, worse part is none died of it, the damn virus is so letal all the oldies politicians who caught didn't die, they are still alive and kicking(and stealing)
Surely less than 200,000 deaths and a wrecked economy
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.