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.
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.
Yaa but you're at eye level to boobies, so you got that on us taller guys.Not only that, but a tall associate was the one that got the item for me.![]()
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.
This. I'm 6'3 and it means next to nothing to women. The only people who care about height are short dudes who want an excuse for their failures and to pretend other men have it so much easier. If we're talking about physical components, looks are far more important to women.Height is overrated. I am 6 feet tall and it does help me get a few extra glances, but it is not a golden ticket. I see plenty of men 5'6" to 5'10" doing quite fine for themselves.
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.
Height is overrated. I am 6 feet tall and it does help me get a few extra glances, but it is not a golden ticket. I see plenty of men 5'6" to 5'10" doing quite fine for themselves.
Most guys accidentally kill attraction before they even speak. They assume they need a bigger bank account, a better physique, or smoother lines. They miss the point.
Female desire operates on a specific set of psychological triggers. Break them, and you're invisible. Follow them, and you become magnetic.
I learned this the hard way. Years of freezing up. Getting friend-zoned. Watching other guys walk away with the girl I wanted. Then I discovered a set of 22 simple rules that rewired my entire approach.
yeah they pull the measuring tape, before start dating you.....Women have a strong preference for the 6'0"+ man. That's reality. Most women swiping on apps feel entitled to a 6'0"+ man. When I first was coming up in the mating environment around 20-25 years ago (late 30s) now, it wasn't as drastic. If you go back to the year 2000, taller men were preferred then but it wasn't like it is today. I'm 5'10" and I have felt times where women seemed unhappy about my height. I can recall one date with a 5'8" woman that was sourced through a swipe app that seemed to have an uncomfortable dynamic at first due to my height. Conceptually, it might have seemed ok to her but once it happened in reality, she seemed a bit turned off by my appearance.
Women have seemed a lot more brazen and entitled about height stuff than even 10 years ago. I think this is happening as more women realize how much demand is out there for their pusssies so they are getting more demanding on what they want.
I have not noticed this at Walmart. I am rarely in Walmart. It's not a good place for picking up women. Other grocery stores and retail is better for pickup. I'm sure there are men who have done approaches in Walmart. I have not done a Walmart approach.
Being a short man stinks.