"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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Ending off conversations.

Keeper

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Mostly on phone and chat... how do you guys end your convos?

I need some examples. I'm getting sick the good old ciao, chereio, bye, night, g'nite, cheers, ok im off....

Sometimes I do the whole 'scuse me while I go feed my pet dinosaur' but still. i need some spicey words.

nobody even dare raise an eyebrow at this post. or i will unleash my pet dinosaur on you!!! uhm... ya
 

"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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The Nice Guy is Gone

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I usually say I am getting ready to go somewhere, and I'm kind of in a hurry so I'm not too late. The key word here is "too".

It works every time, and most of the time, it is mostly true, but I am never actually late, I just tell her that to make her think that I am in a hurry that absolutely can not wait. It works every time.
 

Alphathree

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Just say whatever you want. Words aren't that important.

If you feel you've ended the conversation too abruptly and she says something cold like "okay bye," you can always just say it right back exactly like she did: "okay bye"

It'll lighten the tone and be funny, but the conversation will still end.
 

Gonzalo

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Hmm... "gotta get going, talk to you later" ?

You know, like you're not trying to hard to make it seem like you have cool sh1t to do, yet remain mysterious...
 
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