"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.
ellen page anyone surprised?
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"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.
zekko
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This has nothing to do with Elliot Page exactly, but:
I was listening to the radio the other day, don't know what the show was. Someone called in and said their daughter had just come out as lesbian, and they were very surprised because she had always been so boy crazy. The host said that a lot of the time young women go through phases. He said that in his experience, and in the experience of other men he knew, women's sexuality was more flexible than men's.
He said he knew many women who had said they were lesbian, but later met a guy and got married. This matches my experience too. I've known women who swore they were lesbian, then the next thing you know they're married and have a kid.
zekko
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He was good in that.
"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.
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I remember when I saw "Juno" in a theater. I was going through some difficult personal stuff at the time in early 2008. 2008 got worse as the year went on. Bad year. A lot of the things that made 2008 bad were coming to light in 2007.