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.
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That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
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The fact that he felt the need to add this is sad considering he's merely describing the behavior of an animal vastly different to humans. I wonder what he would say about the mantis where the female eats the head of the male after sex, killing him shortly after he fertilized her.
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.
I heard the large ones are the males. The females are the small normal ones you see and they suck the blood to feed the eggs they carry. So the females are the blood suckers that bite you. The males just hang out like a fly on the wall and don't do anything.
Omfg I went for a drive like 3 days ago and I left my windows closed with a small and big one inside, didn't think anything of it... The heat waves are making their numbers explode
What she probably meant is that there is nothing unusual about this kind of mosquito behaviour. Remember, this is being translated from Russian.
Oh, didn't notice. Makes sense, just informing that this is what mosquitoes do.
It's not just sad, it's downright odd. Imagine other scientific observations with this kind of statement.
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Good point actually. Science isn't there to judge right or wrong, just what is.