"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.
Do you think all the obesity Rx on the market has reduced demand for french fries?
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"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
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I was stunned to see that almost every other restaurant I saw was some sort of Burger and Fry restaurant.
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Not sure, I wanted to try the local food not eat stuff I could get back home...never understood why people go to a country then want to eat the same food they could get back home except worse.
I was eating the Croquettes and BitterBallen in the Netherlands and Escargot in France, etc...
Even tried some traditional Welsh food in Lille because that's part of their culture there and almost every restaurant serves multiple Welsh items.
Have to admit I couldn't get down with the pickled herring that seemed to be everywhere in the Netherlands tho...I don't do raw fish at all...no sushi, no pickled herring, no caviar, etc
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And yet like almost every man at SS, you've chowed down on your share of Raw Kitty, with perhaps even some of it being Medium Rare at the time, even this ain't exactly what you ordered. Uncooked seafood is pretty banal, by comparison
"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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The best cuisines in the Netherlands are Indonesian & kebab.
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Agree.
Plus with advancements in technology, machines are doing more work in the production process which is faster and cheaper to maintain than paying wages to employees. So when they cut back on the workforce, this circles right back to more poor people struggling and buying a bag of potatoes at the grocery store and coming home to make them at home instead of stopping by McDonald's.
"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
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Exactly. The way things are going with the economy is unsustainable because a rich person can only buy so many things for himself, and then save and invest their money. But they are not going to go McDonalds and buy fries until their belly pops out. That's why concentrating too much wealth in the hands of too few people will inevitably lead to a state of a Depression. It's mainly the masses of people who keep things running. If they can only afford bare necessities (even if they can go that far), then who is going to buy everything else? Obviously, as more people leave or are booted from the workforce, or have low-paying wage-slavery jobs, then it becomes counter-productive for corporations to continue to cut salaries or workers since their own business will eventually take a hit.