"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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Try editing a post and click somewhere in the middle where you want to edit. Notice that (often times but not always here) the cursor appears in the upper left as the first character instead of where you clicked. Unless you double click your new characters do not go to the spot where you clicked. This is an easy fix for someone with the source code, but may not be possible if this a third party tool. I can't imagine they would have such an annoying issue.
 

"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've edited several posts and went into editing mode on your own post here in this thread, and had no problem whatsoever. What browser are you using? Have you cleared your cache lately?
 

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I'm using Internet Explorer. This thread works for me too but in the regular forum if I try to click and drag to select, I can't because of this issue. It takes 2 tries.
 

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Interesting. I'll look into it.
 

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I'm still seeing this regularly, though not exclusively. When I go to edit a previously published post (pressing the Edit button that is), I click to where I want to type but (it just happened again now) - when I start to type the characters appear in the upper left part of the window (where the flashing cursor initially goes), and I have to delete it and click a second time and then it works.
 

"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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I just can't seem to replicate it. I'll see if any of the other mods or Allen are seeing this.
 
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