"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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Girl flaked out too many times on me, is often late

Vice

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I met this girl on MySpace.
Got her number and talked to her for a while.
She says she wants to meet me.
I tell her that we can meet at Starbucks.
The first time, I call her up and she says that she's going to her dads house nearby and that she might not be able to make it, "I'm not making any promises" she says.
So I do what is right: cancel.
So I cancel.

A few days later, yesterday on Friday, she's eating at a Japanese restaurant near Starbucks, and I was available, so we make plans to meet.

I get there at about 8:55, order my drink, and sit down to read the Millionare Mind while I waited for her. After finishing my drink at 9:15, I leave because she didn't come.
Five minutes later she texts me saying "where are you?" and I reply with "I left."

Then she texts me and later calls me. I tell her that I'm heading out of town to go to this club I like to socialize at. I let her know that it was her last chance in a while to see me because I'm so busy.

Today I text her to tell her that I canceled my plans due to bad weather.
She went out to eat with her dad, and told me to call her in an hour.
I called in an hour and twenty minutes. No answer.
I try again twenty minutes later. No answer.
So I head to the bookstore and start reading "The Game" by Neil Strauss, and decided to buy it... online. It's $35 in bookstores!!

Then she texts me saying that she left her phone on silent and that she 'just' saw the calls and she 'feels terrible now'. I ignore it and she sends another one twenty minutes later saying 'im so sorry :('.

Now, this is bull****. If she wanted to meet me as bad as she said she did, she would have called me FIRST thing, as soon as she could, or at least texted me.

What should I reply with? I'm thinking about nexting this girl but I don't have anyone else really on my list...

Keep in mind that I'm 17, and she is as well.
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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splinterkb

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All I see her doing is making excuses for why you guys can't hang out, etc. Just say its fine.. and leave it at that. Try ignoring her for a while and see how bad she freaks out.. try to gauge how interested she is.
 

The Deacon

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Teenage girls are notorious flakers. Some of them are just damn impossible to figure out. I'd just cut my losses here.
 

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Vice said:
Then she texts me saying that she left her phone on silent and that she 'just' saw the calls and she 'feels terrible now'. I ignore it and she sends another one twenty minutes later saying 'im so sorry :('.

Now, this is bull****. If she wanted to meet me as bad as she said she did, she would have called me FIRST thing, as soon as she could, or at least texted me.

What should I reply with? I'm thinking about nexting this girl but I don't have anyone else really on my list...
Tell her "OK, now how are you gonna make it up to me?" If you flake on your friends like that, tell me you're gonna make it up to them somehow, right? Like buy them drinks, lunch or something, yes? At the very least, hold her to that standard.
 

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Reliability comes first. If she fails that test, she is a failure in my book.
 

"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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