"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
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"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
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.
Capi Crimini
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But annnnnnyways I digress.
Just throwin out a couple of my most recent dates and a couple im planning to do this weekend.
Cultural food,
I took a girl to a real japanese sushi bar where they make you take off your shoes n all that stuff. She'd never been to anywhere like that before. Order some stuff like Cali roles that everyone likes, then you have to order something weird. I make her look through the menu and pick the weirdest sounding thing there. Dont forget the Saki though. Makes for an interesting date.
Beach variation
Aight well this is kind of a spin off of the cultural food thing, I dont recommend you do these two with the same girl, or close together. I grabbed some take out sushi, threw a beach towel in the car and took my date down to the beach as the sun was setting. We chilled and ate sushi, I tought her how to use chop sticks, awesome kino in there.
Another Beach date.
Hah ok well this one I just thought up today, was gonna take this girl out to the beach when the tide is out and we go searching for shells, bring a disposable camera and have fun takin pictures of each other doin stupid ****. Drop the camera off at some 1 hour photo place and go grab icecream or walk around and pick em up later and laugh at each others stupidity.
Course all these dates were with differant girls so nothin got played out. Hah what I want is to find a girl that blazes. Dates would be so easy, just get together at night, smoke a joint listen to music and look at the stars. Ahhh my dream girl haha.
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I did that with a girl once. I've been riding since I was 4 but I quit in 8th grade because I never really liked it, though everyone told me I had potential. When I rode with the girl I hadn't ridden a horse in 2 years and I looked like a complete a dumbass cause I had no idea what I was doing. Still fun though. If you do go horseback riding with a girl make sure you've ridden a horse before, its a lot more difficicult then it looks. That should be common sense to everyone though.
I know Marriage is a long ways away for all of us, but don't ever marry a women that is deeply into horses. My family owns 4 horses at the moment and I can tell you that horses eat up all of your hard earned money and they also require a lot of time if you plan on showing them or racing them. Again that should be obvious to everyone, but I'd figure I'd tell you guys anyway.
"I'm Not Looking for Anything Serious Right Now"
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
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Kino? High five her if she threw a good one. Slap her ass as encouragement for a strike, give it a squeeze if she gets one!
in another post here (something like, "my girl likes to live dangerously") i saw paintball mentioned at one point. if the girl your dating isn't afraid that "it'll hurt too much," then gather up a bunch of people and go to a paintball arena. if she's a little afraid, just try to convince her to go and wear something protective, like a coat (which saved my balls when i went... literally).
"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.
Walks in the park. If she has a pet or you have one, it's not a bad idea. These are my personnal favorites. I mean... out in the beauty of nature... who could refuse some action in the serenity of the forest? Birds chirping and sun beaming... God... Get to it! 10/10
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ya a movie is supposedly used by everyone, but wtf movies are great.
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youll rarely find an experienced smoker that isnt totally ****ed up.
so it really is your "dream" girl
assassin
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if you don't live near a beach go chill at a lake. especially at night, all the stars, candle dinner. whatever you wan't to make out of it.
good times.
"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.
wavejams007
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I think concerts are a pretty good idea. The closer you are to the mosh pit, the closer she tends to get to you which means some major kino. Of course, this wouldn't work at like a hip-hop, country, or pop concert. The band would have to be sufficiently hard enought to mosh to.
"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.