"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.

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A bad date makeout?

stalluproar

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Alright, I need an opinion about a situation/date that happened to me this week. I had a girl come over to meet me and we left to a couple places. The first place it was going alright, but the second place we went to, it felt awkward. I was surely out of my game. We left and went back to her car at my house. I started to walk inside with my back turned to her (I did that as bait to see what she would do). She told me she was going home. I turned my head and asked her if she knew how to get home. Anyways, I explained how to get back. She says goodbye and initiates the makeout. We made out a couple different times for probably a brief 15 seconds.

I felt this date was dead. What do you guys think? Why should she makeout with me when it appeared to me she wasn't having much of a good time as well?

This girl is almost 9 years older than me (37 and very hot). I ran the Mystery Method on her the first two meetings and it worked great.
 

"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.

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seanchai

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Remember that you're coming from a frame where you see everything that's gone wrong from the perfect pickup, and she's coming from a normal societal frame where you seem like a smooth, cool guy. MM is powerful stuff, and you can often misapply these principles and still get a good result. It's just more painful for you.
 

Francisco d'Anconia

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If the at the first place things were just alright, why did you prolong the date? It sounds as if it was the definition of a slow death. And then you end up at your place, why? Was it for a mercy fvck?

It's a waste to run MM on the stereotypical Minnesota woman, they are a breed in of their own. They don't have the fortitude to put up it. It's a self esteem thing.
 

stalluproar

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Actually she just moved up here from New Mexico and she is originally from Mississippi. The accent is totally there. I do get you about Stereotypical Minnesota Women.

I went up to get a quick bite to eat and a quick drink and bounced to another place. I had her meet me at my house and we left from there. That is how I set it up.
 
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