"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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FR: 3 approaches at a track meet.

ElStud

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I did a couple more approaches today at Day 2 of the track meet.

This is the first approach I did today. I approached this random chick from another school that was walking under the stands. It went like this:
Me: Hey, how's it going?
Girl: Good.
Me: Good? Did you fail a test or somethng?
Girl: No.
Me: Then you're just having a bad day?
Girl: Kind of.
Me: Tell me about it.
Girl: I'm just tired.
Me: So what school do you go too?
Girl: [Schoolname]
Me: Ah, I hear [Schoolname] has a pretty good team.
Girl: Yeah.
Second approach, I'm walking through the school and I see this hot girl listening to music and sit next to her. This isn't the exact conversation but the approach went something like this:
Me: Hey, I'm going to make you my girlfriend for 5 minutes.
Girl: I'm sorry. No.
Me: What?
Girl: No.

Alright, my attempt at starting something playful didn't work. But I wasn't going to give up.

Me: So, what school do you go to?
Girl: [Schoolname]
Me: Oh, I go to [My schoolname].
Girl: Yeah.

That's not everything. But I kept asking her questions and she didn't seem very interested.

Me: So, do you play any instruments?
Girl: Flute.
Me: Cool, I play Alto Sax.
Girl: Yeah.

Me: So what do you do in your free time?
Girl: Nothing.
Me: Nothing?
Girl: No.
Me: You sound pretty boring, not like the kind of chick I would want to go out with.
Girl: I have a boyfriend.
Me: Oh, well it was nice meeting you.
This girl showed no interest at all, probably because she already had a boyfriend or just plain wasn't interested.

Third approach, one of the most successful ones. Despite knowing that the chick had a boyfriend already, I approached her.
This one went pretty long, so I'm just going to give a summary of what we talked about.

- Approached her with "Hey, how's it going?" she says "Good". I ask "What event do you do?" she says "Diskus". To make things interesting I say "Can you put your hand out?" and she does it, and I start feeling around her hand and say "So, it's true what they say about girls who do Discus", and she laughs and sort of says "Big hands?" and we basically start having conversation.

- We talked about Discus. She told me how she finally threw the discus 80 feet and tells me how her coach has been telling her for two years she could do it. We joked about that.

- Talked about this thing she does with her face when she laughs, she told me it's in the family, and that her aunt also does it.

- I talked about how she has trouble with eye contact. First she thinks I'm talking about contacts, but then I tell her that I'm talking about this thing she has with eye contact. She says she realizes it and says she does it because she feels that if she looks into a persons eyes for too long, she'll be staring. See, this chick had this thing, where sometimes she'd be giving me I contact, but sometimes she would be having conversation with me and looking the other way. I told her what I do to avoid staring and we went on from there. I asked her if that ran in the family too and she said "No, it's just me".

- I asked her if she's seen any movies lately, she tells me she doesn't have time. From there I tell her I saw Spiderman 3 and we had a big conversation about that.

- Eventually, she said "Are we leaving?" and got up. I asked her if she had a number and she says "Well, I'm not really use to people asking my number". Blah, blah, says she already had a boyfriend, so I say "That's alright, we can still be friends". She tells me she has this blackbook thing that I can use to look up her phone number, and tells me how she has a cell phone but hardly ever uses it. After she does some explaining, I just say "You can give me your number later" and she's like "Ok". Then she says something about how she's going to the bathroom and would be right back.
This is one of the most successful approaches I've had to date. The chick was smiling at me, laughing at what I said, and I vibed with her. Yeah, she still has a boyfriend, but it went pretty well. Only thing I think I could've done better was more kinoing.
 

"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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ElStud said:
This girl showed no interest at all, probably because she already had a boyfriend or just plain wasn't interested.

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From my experience, girls who have a bf tend to be alot more flirty.Also you really need the stop opening with the did you fail a test or something. It probly reminds her of school and testing, which no one likes ; so it is a big turn off.
 

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oteao99 said:
ElStud said:
This girl showed no interest at all, probably because she already had a boyfriend or just plain wasn't interested.

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From my experience, girls who have a bf tend to be alot more flirty.Also you really need the stop opening with the did you fail a test or something. It probly reminds her of school and testing, which no one likes ; so it is a big turn off.
Not if they're not interested.
 
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