"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
27 Unique Ideas for Dates, from Yahoo!
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"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
Vulpine
Master Don Juan
Uh... "Unique"?
95% of that sh!t is lame as fvck.
"27 very plain ideas to bore the snot out of a date."
What a douche.
go to a park and throw a frisbee
take your cat for a walk
go to a "pick your own" fruit place
roast marshmallows over a sterno can or grill "spontaneously"
fly a kite off the top of a parking ramp
go pretend to be street performers - suck really bad on purpose
pistol range
rent a tandem bike
get dressed up, smoke a bunch of weed, and go sit through an opera: don't forget the gummi bears
chuck e. cheese?
play jax or pick-up sticks on a crowded street over a coffee, maybe some hopscotch once you're jacked-up on caffeine.
sneak a couple 40's into the movie theatre - bring long straws
go to a thrift store (second-hand, goodwill, etc.) and rummage around (those places are hilarious)
Put on bright orange shirts and walk around in home depot (red shirts: target, blue shirts: Wal-Mart, etc.) (heck, buy the shirts at the thrift store for a dime a piece)
get sidetracked and go with it, keep getting sidetracked - promise dinner, end up skipping stones by a river, etc.
get on a bus and ride around until you see something you want to do or see.
water ballon fight
feed pigeons/ducks/geese/seagulls
make vegetable gardens in flower pots and grow food in your bedroom window (I've got serano chili peppers, lettuce, onions, and grass for my cat in my window)
go sledding
scavenger hunt
instead of watching a movie, put the tv in the window and watch the movie in lawn chairs outside.
buy a box of brownie mix, go over to a neighbor's, ask for a "cup of sugar", reward them with the brownies you made with the cup of sugar.
go to a greenhouse and mess with the venus fly traps
blow bubbles on a pedestrian bridge/overpass above a rush-hour traffic jam
go to a dollar store, laugh at the food, mess with the toys (tell your date you are taking her out for dinner, but go to the dollar store instead for "dinner"... "Oh, you got all dressed up for Dollar General? FANCY!)
oops, that's like 28...
Go help out on Bingo night at the old folk's home?
Sure, if the smell of Ben Gay and soggy depends gets your chick wet.
Dude had like 3 or 4 ideas that didn't suck.
95% of that sh!t is lame as fvck.
"27 very plain ideas to bore the snot out of a date."
What a douche.
go to a park and throw a frisbee
take your cat for a walk
go to a "pick your own" fruit place
roast marshmallows over a sterno can or grill "spontaneously"
fly a kite off the top of a parking ramp
go pretend to be street performers - suck really bad on purpose
pistol range
rent a tandem bike
get dressed up, smoke a bunch of weed, and go sit through an opera: don't forget the gummi bears
chuck e. cheese?
play jax or pick-up sticks on a crowded street over a coffee, maybe some hopscotch once you're jacked-up on caffeine.
sneak a couple 40's into the movie theatre - bring long straws
go to a thrift store (second-hand, goodwill, etc.) and rummage around (those places are hilarious)
Put on bright orange shirts and walk around in home depot (red shirts: target, blue shirts: Wal-Mart, etc.) (heck, buy the shirts at the thrift store for a dime a piece)
get sidetracked and go with it, keep getting sidetracked - promise dinner, end up skipping stones by a river, etc.
get on a bus and ride around until you see something you want to do or see.
water ballon fight
feed pigeons/ducks/geese/seagulls
make vegetable gardens in flower pots and grow food in your bedroom window (I've got serano chili peppers, lettuce, onions, and grass for my cat in my window)
go sledding
scavenger hunt
instead of watching a movie, put the tv in the window and watch the movie in lawn chairs outside.
buy a box of brownie mix, go over to a neighbor's, ask for a "cup of sugar", reward them with the brownies you made with the cup of sugar.
go to a greenhouse and mess with the venus fly traps
blow bubbles on a pedestrian bridge/overpass above a rush-hour traffic jam
go to a dollar store, laugh at the food, mess with the toys (tell your date you are taking her out for dinner, but go to the dollar store instead for "dinner"... "Oh, you got all dressed up for Dollar General? FANCY!)
oops, that's like 28...
Go help out on Bingo night at the old folk's home?
Sure, if the smell of Ben Gay and soggy depends gets your chick wet.
Dude had like 3 or 4 ideas that didn't suck.
Francisco d'Anconia
Master Don Juan
Yeah, all of them seemed like cliché "nice guy" stuff. I will admit that the race car driving school did sound intriguing, I think I'm going to put that on my personal list of "to do's."
"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.
NSUballer
Senior Don Juan
yea that list blows big time...thats things to do if you dont want another date....my personal favorite ona first date is roller skating, girls like that kinda stuff...unless theyre very uncoordinated...
Francisco d'Anconia
Master Don Juan
Learning how to drive a race car???saber said:
NSUballer
Senior Don Juan
yea It would be awesome to be a Nascar driver. Now thats a profession chics definitely are attracted to
Francisco d'Anconia
Master Don Juan
Yeah, but I'm an anarchist. I'd want to turn the wheel to the right.NSUballer said:
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
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.