"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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FR: Online Chick #2

poohead

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I would swear off online chicks after my last online debacle with HBFrenchBiatch last month - except Online Chick #2 is just way too cute. We've been emailing for about a week, we talked on the phone for the first time last night, and are supposed to have a coffee date tomorrow.

email correspondences so far:

Original Message YOU sent on 4/25/2006 4:31:39 PM

have you read anything good lately? i like nonfiction books mostly.

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I'm so busy between work and school that I don't have much time to read for pleasure. I teach computers-related instruction and am completing a bachelors in elementary education.

For fun, I mostly enjoy nonfiction, education-related books, biographies, and short stories.

Have you read anything good lately? I'd be happy to converse further.
HB

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Hi

I'm a software engineer - what type of computer related instruction is it? My research is mainly in the area of encryption and distributed authentication systems.

You read anything good lately? I'm mainly into nonfiction too. I was on a big Noam Chomsky kick for a few weeks - I read Manufacturing Consent and the Secret War on Terror.

I did grad school while I was working full time as well - that was really tough, I have a lot of admiration for people who do that. When are you done with school?
me


Hello me,

Hope you had a nice day. I'm doing my student teaching in the fall. That's interesting. That’s an interesting field!
Do you know Unix?
What are some other things that you like to do for fun? Do you enjoy dancing?

HB
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Hi HB-

Hope you had a good day too. Yeah I work with a lot of Solaris and Linux. So now you are just taking classes?

Outside of work, I like music - I play guitar and go to a lot of concerts, I like reading too. I enjoy dancing, I'm not great at it though because I don't go that much. What clubs do you go to?

me


Hello me,

Do you have any fun plans this weekend? I met a friend last night for dinner. Today I'm catching up with some school work, but I"ll probably meet up with a several friends later.

I have not been going out to the clubs much lately. I've been to x, x, x, x, and x club. I took Salsa lessons at x; it was a lot of fun. I also don't go enouph to be good, but plan to in the near future.

talk later,

HB
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Original Message YOU sent on 4/29/2006 2:34:18 PM

Hi again,

I'm going to a concert at the Empty Bottle tonight probably.

I've been to x club, but not any of the others you mentioned. Anyways, you want to get a cup of coffee sometime?
me


Meeting for a coffee sounds good. Let me know a good time for you.


HB
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Original Message YOU sent on 4/30/2006 3:50:31 PM

thursday and sunday of this week are the best for me. when's a good time for you?

me


This Thursday around 7:00 would work for me. Do you know where x is. I tutor Thursday afternoon in x, perhaps that would be a good meeting place.

HB
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Original Message YOU sent on 5/1/2006 2:09:36 PM

sounds cool, i've never been there but i can find it on mapquest or something. can i call you before thursday so we can plan this out more?


Yes, my cell phone is XXX-XXX-XXXX. Tomorrow evening around 10:00 would be the best time. If I miss your call, just leave a message and I'll call you back.

HB
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"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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so ...

Last night i was gonna call her at 10 like she said to, but she wound up calling me first instead.

She actually seemed really nervous and tongue tied - that's the first time I've ever noticed something like that.

We talked about an hour, we agreed to talk tomorrow at 9 about meeting on Thursday - we still haven't decided on what we are going to do yet.

I have serious doubts that she is for long term. So far the conversation hasn't been very exciting, she is a really sweet though, and I can tell she could be cool if she loosens up a little. She seems really sincere and nice.

I have one blurry pic of what could possibly be an incredibly hot girl. Like either an HB7, 8 or an HB9, it just depends on the face up close.
Sexy voice, too.

She seems really naive - religious upbringing, lives at home with parents but has lived on her own before, doesn't drink alcohol very often. The next couple of days should be interesting. I'm really hoping she's as hot as I think in person.
 
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Awesome, so you know that you can get results!

If you have spare time, begin the goal of sarging ten chicks a week. This should lead to about 5 good numbers, and 2 or 3 good fvcks.

Build up your pvssy pipeline, and your account base. Sorry to sound like a sales manager but you know.....sales rules the world!
 

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Am I the only one who thinks that there is a ridiculous irony in Field Report and online chick?



Call me old school, but isn't a FIELD report actually supposed to be conducted in the REAL world.
 

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well we have a date tonight, so there will be real world interaction in a couple of hours, which i'll write about.

hopefully that's ok with you.
 

"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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too late to ask for another pic, supposed to meet her after work. she didn't photoshop that one though - it's just a little blurry/far. the way the pic is, there's no chance she's heinous, she's either slightly above average to hot, so i'm not that worried about the looks.

thanks.
report back later...
 

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Please, please update this thread after you meet her. Even if she flakes.
 

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well...

so she didn't flake. i met her for dinner at a restaurant near where she works.

we had a good time, we stayed and talked for a few hours after we finished eating. we closed the place down, by the time we left they were getting ready to close the place.

how did she look?
-well, i said she could either be an HB7 8 or 9 depending on her face. she is a 7 with a 9 body (she is a former swimmer and her body is niiiice). that's good enough for me, but obviously it would have been better if she was a 9.

as for her personality: her personality is really unusual. she's really religious and conservative. she is either very serious or extremely nervous, awkward and goofy. she is really naive and almost sheltered - but i also gathered that, like a lot of online girls, she has dated many many guys and is pretty picky. she has weird body language and gives you weird looks for no reason. she is very sweet though, and seems to be a very kind, sincere person. i don't get the sense that she is big into game playing, although she was definitely asking me qualifying questions throughout the night - stuff about my dating history, my family and my job.

a couple of things which may be a problem later on: she lives at home with her parents, she drinks only once in a blue moon - she told me the last time she went out to the bars she didn't drink at all, this was more than a month ago, she isn't very sophisticated or cultured, she's a little naive. i get the sense that there is a lot to her that is beneath the surface, whether this is good or bad i don't know.

stuff we talked about: families, stuff she's studying in school, teaching, autistic kids, our dating histories, psychology, computers, travelling, literature, movies, restaurants. one thing she said - she broke up with her ex because he didn't want to get married, he wanted to 'have his cake and eat it too', what does that mean - he wants to have sex but not get married? or he wants to keep dating but not commit? i'm not sure what she meant by that and i didn't ask her to clarify.

probably my biggest blunder of the evening: she mentioned she 'broke up with her ex boyfriend because he wanted to have his cake and eat it too'. i took this to mean he wanted to have sex but not get married. later on we were talking about artificial insemination. she mentioned that if she doesn't find someone she will freeze her eggs and have them artificially imseminated - i said 'you'll be like the virgin mary'. she gave me a weird/bad(?) look like she didn't know what i was talking about. i say 'well you know you mentioned you were a virgin, or i assumed you were a virgin because of what you said about your ex'. she says 'i'm not a virgin'. then i quickly change the subject.

second biggest blunder of the evening: i gave her the 'cube' test. she seemed a little bored with it, or like it came off too much like a 'routine'. i quickly changed the subject.

best thing i did all evening: gave her **** about playing with her food. i came off as really intelligent to her also.

i tried to get her to go to a club with me afterwards, but she said 'some other time it's getting late i have work'. i was like, that's cool whatever.

sat across a table from her all night, i couldn't do any kino hardly. at the end of the night when we parted ways i started chewing some gum because i decided to go for a kiss. i lean over give her a kiss on the cheek and tell her 'call me sometime' she says 'you call me too'. then we part ways.

i'm not sure if the kiss on the cheek was a good idea - she gave me a weird look afterwards, but then again i noticed she was giving weird looks throughout the night, she's really hard to read. when i kissed her she did say 'wow nice breath'.

i'm not like, bowled over or anything, but she is nice and cute and i definitely wouldn't mind dating her and/or having sex with her repeatedly. i'm not sure what my next move will be, probably call her in a few days.
 
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if i didn't believe this before, one thing i am absolutely certain of now --

YOU CANNOT HIDE YOUR INNER GAME.


you know how, great guitar players can sense someone is a great guitar player after hearing him play just a few notes? the same way they can sense an amateur guitar player after just a few notes?

women can tell a real man - someone who is on his path, who is confident, in control of his emotions, has a clear sense of ethics and personal boundaries, etc. - by just talking to you. i know this because, tonight i felt like i was doing really well at being upbeat and a lively conversationalist, i also tried to slip in as much humor as i could.

and, despite this, she looked at me a couple of times tonight and said things like:

'you look sad, like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders'

you can't hide your inner game. i hope i had enough game tonight to carry me through, i think it went well but who knows. we shall see...
 

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Do some bootcamp ****.
 

"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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