The plates get cleared and the silence lands like a brick. You can feel her waiting. Your brain offers up your commute, your job, the weather — topics that have ended more second dates than bad breath.
Here's what most guys never learn: women hand out free conversational material all night long. Tiny clues about what they actually want to discuss. Catch them and you never run out of things to say — because she's telling you what to say next.
Rule 4 of the "22 Rules" trains your ear to catch every single one.
Translation:Originally posted by naturalzen
yeah you two go back to making out... let the big alabama black snake give you some if its loving lol
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.
Like I said, what do you expect out of an argument online. To win some sort of online respect and protect your online ego and dignity. You are obviously still a kid who needs attention, hence, going into legitimate threads and out of nowhere starting a flamewar... The only solution to you is to put you on the ignore list. I suggest everyone else who's fed up with this guy wasting your time by clicking on user cp as well and ignoring this idiot. Like I said before, he wants attention online because he gets none in real life... Pathetic. ~ZappaOriginally posted by naturalzen
omg zappa your like the kid in the school yard that got picked last for kickball.... go cry to the moderators.. cry cry. im loving it. you and playa make a good couple. two ****s is better than one huh? hahaha.... once you go black you never go back lol ..
Rudeness is a weak man's imitation of strength.Originally posted by Frank Zappa
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Give me attention, blah blah blah... Moderators, please note that naturalzen is trying to start flame wars in every thread. Ban this weiner, he doesn't even contribute to the site at all and is incorrigible. ~Zappa
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.