"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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Do you think it's possible for a honeypot in a robbery ring to be 49 years old?

"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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Lots of folks(both genders) look much younger than they actually are, and women have the advantage of concealing wear and tear with an infinite array of cosmetics, botox, etc

So, yeah, @MatureDJ .... Events like those described in that article are something we're likely to encounter a great deal more of in the future, surely as tidal waves of Toe Rogan devotees are going to flood ERs throughout the nation, upon discovering:

All that sh-t which looked so badass in the safe space of BJJ/Tae Kwon Do class gets you bulldozed in an actual street brawl, against felons who've done lengthy stretches in maximum security pens
 
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