"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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How to deal with fake numbers?

NoBull

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I don't have a high % failure with # close, maybe 10% or something, but I'm curious, how do you act if you knew it was bogus?

I let the girl punch the digits in the phone, then hold my phone, read the same number, but change a few digits (if it was 5556595 I'd say 5557595) and if she didn't correct me, I know it's fake, I'd usually give a her a look that translates to "I'm not a moron" and walk away.



Any other methods you guys use?
 

"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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M2k961

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Bahaha! That is an awesome trick!

*assimilated*

I don't have any others.
 

Sato21m

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lol keep in mind girls sometime learn fake # for this kind of situation.
 

"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.

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Tempest

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let her punch in the numbers and insert it in your phone. then say "is this the phone that you actually answer?", and hold out the phone like you're ready to dial the number.
 

Beethoven

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I don't get it with all these tricks for working out if a number is fake or not.

When the girl gives you the number, just accept it. If, when you call it, it turns out to be fake, throw it away.

The only real point I can see to finding out if it's fake on the spot is so you can get a 'mini-revenge' by giving the girl a dirty look or something. DJ's shouldn't care for revenge in situations like this.

In the end, if you get a fake number, you didn't raise her IL high enough. So improve yourself for next time.
 

backbreaker

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Heres my thing:

If the girl gives you a fake number, even if you call her on it and she gives you the right one, she gave you a fake number because for some reason or another, she doesn't want to talk to you. Now instead of saving her time answering the phone, she has to do the deed of putting you off until you get the point.

So I do check the number to make sure it's right, but if they blatently give me the wrong number, I just smile, tell them to take care, and walk off.
 

manicmaximum

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good point. unless shes retardedly drunk and actually meant to put in the right number, she doesnt want to talk to you anyway, just move on.
 

"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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Walken

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I've never gotten a fake number, first number I got was ****ed up though. It was something like 555-555? I thought it was ****ed up and didn't bother trying the ten variations.
 

So pimp its scary

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If the girl gives you a fake number, even if you call her on it and she gives you the right one, she gave you a fake number because for some reason or another, she doesn't want to talk to you. Now instead of saving her time answering the phone, she has to do the deed of putting you off until you get the point.
This is why I simply don't bother to call back fake numbers.
 
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