"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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Bad Grade Embarrassment

Devon14465

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There's this really cute girl in my English class who has been giving me little smiles every now and then, and I've been waiting for a chance to talk to her. But today we took a vocabulary test that I did VERY poorly on, we then exchanged the tests, and guess who got to grade mine... Needless to say I was mortified, the first impression she had of me was a terrible test grade. She seems to care a lot about her schoolwork, which is why I'm so concerned that this might make her lose interest in me.
 

"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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Daddy The Pimp

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W H A T A F U C K I N G C H U M P ! ! ! ! !

You got a lot to learn mofo, a lot to learn.


If you felt bad about it, she felt bad about it.
If you didn't give a sh1t, she wouldn't give a sh1t.

People react to you based on your reactions.

Also, if you were sarging hardcore (like you're supposed to be, if you wanna become good in this sh1t), you wouldn't have time to think for this kind of sh1t. You would just screen out little things like this one.
 

eaglez1177

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Wow...yea I def agree this is extreme over analyzation and totally irrelevant. Just grow a pair and talk to her stop worrying about your grades making a bad impression.
 

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plus why are you getting bad grades? its not like school is hard or anything, and grades are actually more important than her right now. really if you can't even keep your grades up, you got bigger problems than girls right now. focus on paying attention in school first. im not saying become a nerd and start caring more about grades than a social life, or that theyre more important, even. im saying if you cant even keep at least C's or higher youre most likely gonna have problems getting girls also, especially the smart ones as she seems. get it together. both of those things are easy.
 

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TheEnergizer said:
grades are actually more important than her right now.

yes. high school is easy. a cake walk. you need to be beasting on pretty much everything, straight a's. my intellect in high school was where my confidence came from. in any situation that there was a possibility of failure, i ALWAYS knew i had my stellar gpa to fall back on. sports teams, class elections, getting girls, etc. get your sh1t together man. plus, it's just one girl. who cares really what she thinks?
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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