Can someone explain this to me?

"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.

Prepostereax

Senior Don Juan

Today at 4:39 PM

OP, You are operating under a fallacy that seems to be a product of OLD and this insta generation

Cheeky_James said:
so you think 5’6” scrawny, baldy Strauss was dating.. down?
Like, he could’ve done better for himself ….?

Women are supposed to bring more beauty to the table
{No I wouldn't look twice at her, at least not based on those pics alone, but she's probably sexier irl which is what counts}
Men bring leadership to the table.

This whole concept of looksmaxxing is ghey, that men have to be as pretty as the woman they're dating

"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.