"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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A Reminder that Game STILL isn't Mainstream

"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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Dear Jeff,
Yeah....I think it will work on a Quiet young girl....Frankly I will come at the Flowers,a thoughtful Card,but big eats at a Swank Restaurant....Nuh cheaper to buy it,you are anyway.
 

"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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Well of course it isn't mainstream bullsh!t like this is being thrown at guys constantly.

Example.

Last month a fellow workmate chatted up a Jim Beam promo girl at work, she was young so half of his mistakes got overlooked. He pulled her number and worked out she was vegetarian just like him. Instead of asking me or our other mates at work on how to get the girl to go out with him he decides to ask the old ladies that work with us.

They tell him to text her and say that he'll make her a nice vegetarian dish next week that they can both enjoy at lunch time if shes free to have lunch with him. As soon as he texted her that rubbish and other crap she stopped texting back and avoided him like the plague at work.

After a week he comes to the boys at work and explains what happened and he still doesn't believe what we are trying to tell him.
 

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If you take the 5 headings and rewrite the content below them, they're perfect.

First-date dictate #1: Dress with finesse

Dressing sharp is a must, say no more.

First-date dictate #2: Perfect the proper greeting

By proper, I mean a properly tight, well timed and well executed neg. E.g: the Roissy classic picking lint / hair (real or imaginary) from her dress (around the shoulders or back) as you see her, without saying a word. Timeless & priceless maneuver.

First-date dictate #3: Charm her with a bit of classic etiquette

... to balance out your previous neg. Keep her hamster guessing.

First-date dictate #4: Order with panache

Who can argue with this? You're the man with good taste, you order, she submits.

First-date dictate #5: Bid her goodnight in grand style

Say "goodnight" after you give her a grand romp she'll remember for decades. It'd be rude to bolt out of the door without a word.
 

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I knew it would be horrible, but I got a real kick out of "stand when she leaves the table." LOLLLLLLL





PIMP
 

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"When you pick your date up ... it helps to have flowers in hand."

The crown jewel of bad advice.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

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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meathead said:
"When you pick your date up ... it helps to have flowers in hand."

The crown jewel of bad advice.
It might be okay if you say "If you aren't fvcking ready, I'm going to whack you upside the head with these" and follow through if she ISN'T fvcking ready
 

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Only give a woman flowers if you picked them from her front yard. A root ball only adds to the beauty of a flower.
 

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The most effective way I've ever given a woman a flower is when I jumped out of the car, ran to the boulevard, and ripped one out of the city planters. Spending money on flowers is great thing to do for someone in the hospital.
 
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