"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.

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My USA Vacation Checklist

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Okay guys I'm going back to America on October 14th to January 5th. Do you guys have any recommendations to how I should spend my time over there? Should I volunteer? should I work part time? Should I hit the bars and cold approach a bunch of latinas there in South Texas? lol. It's been three years since I've driven a car in US Soil so that's definitely something I should do when I get back to South Texas. I want to do a lot of cruising and driving especially on the highways and expressways. I also want to visit that senior Master sergeant I was talking about in San Antonio and catch up with him. My life right now always feels like it's on vacation mode to be honest since I'm an unemployed writer just relying on his military pension, social security and revenue from my parent's hotel to get by. I've acquired a taste for The Tropical stuff lol....that reminds me, I need to visit South Padre Island as well. Yes, here's to a nice visit to Uncle Sam once more.
 

"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.

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Are you planning to stay in the Southern parts of the US to avoid the snow & cold?
 

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That's more like a Texas checklist. The US is a lot bigger than Texas if you haven't gone other places you might want to check some out.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

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.

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Seconded on the motorcycle. Based off of my recollection, I hope the visit with your buddy is a positive one. You COULD hit coastal highway 1, Beartooth pass....
 

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If it were me, I'd rent a motorcycle for those road trips. The weather should be great, not so hot that it makes the helmet and gear uncomfortable.
Never...unless you want to end up as a statistic. Motorists pay no attention to motorcycles and them versus a car is an automatic L for them.
 

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Never...unless you want to end up as a statistic. Motorists pay no attention to motorcycles and them versus a car is an automatic L for them.
Speaking of statistics, there are four factors that make up about 90% of fatal motorcycle accidents: excessive speed, alcohol, lack of a helmet, and lack of a valid motorcycle license. So avoiding those circumstances goes a long way toward not dying.
 

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Speaking of statistics, there are four factors that make up about 90% of fatal motorcycle accidents: excessive speed, alcohol, lack of a helmet, and lack of a valid motorcycle license. So avoiding those circumstances goes a long way toward not dying.
That, and since when does statistics determine one's inact- I mean ACTIONS?

*EDIT* I'm also a statistics nerd of sorts despite the candor of what I wrote.
 

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should I work part time?
If you're open to being a substitute babysitter at an elementary school, who throws on Kevlar + Totes an M-16 into class each morning... Absolutely!!!

The Lone Star State's zeal for an encore of Uvalde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uvalde_school_shooting is more non-existent than Dakota Johnson's willingness to express anything approaching emotion onscreen, and now that Walker has ridden off to that Ranger Station in the sky, they clearly can't rely on their police departments to prevent the younguns from being deprive of a pulse

Just hope that your marksmanship is at least average
 

"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.

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