I was walking through an underpass with my girlfriend in arm and the homeless man who sleeps there said, ' hey that's a nice girlfriend, treat her right, she's the best you're ever going to do. ever ever ever' then he continued to say the word ever repeatedly as I walked away. We both laughed but it didn't feel right to me. He was probably right but even so. Was it some kind of insult?
"She's Out of Your League"
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
homeless man heckled me
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"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.
RedScorpion
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He’s a homeless person. As well as someone you don’t know (emphasis on this part). Disregard random people’s idle comments, as they have no possibility of understanding you. Just by virtue of them not knowing you. A man is not made purely by appearances either.
Who cares what this random guy thinks?
Who cares what this random guy thinks?
R.U.G.
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Prob. just looking back on his own boulevard of broken dreams and life. I would had just wished him well and not had given it a second thought. After all, look at you, then look at him. Who's in a better position in life?
Atom Smasher
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That was me under the bridge. I was just goofin' on ya, bro.
logicallefty
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I’ll be extremely polite and respectful to a homeless person on first meeting if they are to me. But I’m not gonna let them throw idle jabs like this at me. At that point I would have told the guy I’m on my way to steakhouse xyz so he should be sure to dig there in the dumpster tomorrow for my bone and fat scraps.
"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.
Mike32ct
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Plenty of homeless people have mental illness and/or drug issues, so I wouldn’t give what they say a second thought.
Just keep walking.
Just keep walking.
zekko
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Agree with this.
You definitely can't take what the guy was saying to heart. I'm sure he was wallowing in his own misery and was trying to project it on to you.
The guy definitely sounds unstable.
wifehunter
Master Don Juan
He's projecting his own losery onto 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.
