"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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san1

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Hey guys (or girls) first and foremost i appreciate your constructive comments it helped me through frail times of my life.

Like all the other posts, this post too has a girl. To start off i met this girl quite a while back while i displayed AFC behaviours. We'd talk on the phone long hours and any time i asked her to meet me, she'd flake, always with some excuses.
So, i realised this girl was very unpredictable. Manipulative is a better word. Back when we used to talk on the phone, after a few conversation, i started to use her as a guinea pig. I experimented on the things i needed to work on like '****y funny' and teased her some, to which she always thought i was 'mad' at her. She'd always ask me if i was mad at her and i'd give a sarcastic answer. She then started telling me of her boyfriend and that he was being very posessive and asked if i was 'posessive' too. I didn't think much. we stopped talking for a long time.
On MSN i see her one day and i ask, how is her boyfriend doing to which she replies "what boyfriend?" i continue with the conversation just being playful here and there. She suddenly reveals to me that she likes someone in Australia. I ask a few question about the distance and change the subject.
Again on msn another day (this is funny) she comes and starts talking. I ask how her boyfriend in australia is she tells me, she doesn't think it'll work out. She tells me relationships are useless. Then she sends me her picture (HB8), i think she was expecting me to just kiss her ass after the picture sending, but i didn't even open it till after we wre done conversing. I told her that too. She then replies with 'i'm sorry i'm thinking of Ray' (lol) She proceeds to tell me Ray is ruder then i am. I change the subject. This is when she tells me, she's in love with me and states the reason why she thinks she's in love with me. I just say "u can't fall in love with me" i was expecting for her to say "why?" but she didn't. Instead she, believe me when i say this, she rambles on about how her and Ray had a fight on the phone and he hung up on her and she is trying to re-establish a phone connection. I tell her i'm not her psychologist and what was this about her liking me? she then tells me 'like you?' after that she constantly avoids any question i ask. I say **** it and leave.
I make an exception for her and I email her to hang out this friday. to which first e-mail she replies with "sure we can go" and then emails me back 15 minutes later saying "she just realised she had a test on friday, maybe we can go after, or another day"

Now the question is do you think I should give her any more chances she flaked once before or is she to psycho?
appreciate it.
 

"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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Jovan

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Dude this chick is using you are her emotional tampon... Why do you keep asking her about her boyfriends... don't do that man...

Also this girl isn't interested... Interested girls don't flake... seriously forget about this chick or just use her as your emotional tampon
 

san1

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I ask for her boyfriend because I have a feeling she has none. It's more of a mocking/sarcastic ask.
 
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