"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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Back-handed compliment AND opportunity

Leporello

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I was talking to a friend of mine (female) about my difficulties finding a girl after breaking up with my last gf over the summer. Apparently in an attempt to be nice, she told me "Oh don't worry Leporello, you're a real hidden gem".

Whoah. 'Hidden gem'? Not Colin Firth certainly, but 'hidden gem'? That's like telling a girl she has a nice personality.

And now for something completely different...

There's a girl I had class with last year. I went abroad for second semester and we didn't really keep in touch. Every time I see her now, though, she's really agressive in a C + F kind of way. Trouble is, i almost never see her.

I know she works in one of the campus offices (because she told me to stop by) so i stopped by and she wasn't there. Since I don't have her cell I sent her kind of a jackass-y message on facebook:

"Hey, i stopped by the office and you weren't there. Here I am trying to be nice..."

and she wrote back:

"Lol! You're awesome! I'll be there on Friday!"

Obviously this is a positive response. You guys read anything else into it?
 

"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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Obviously, you should go see her and game her. The light is green.
 

Leporello

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Serialized3 said:
Obviously, you should go see her and game her. The light is green.
Sure. I'll report back after Friday.
 
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