Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
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.
1.Start a self improvement journal on here. Create a new thread for it.The Message Boy said:Warrior, yes I am where do I start.
Do I post pics or what? Send you some of the notes I will send to women, what?
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.
I can't believe people take this guy seriously. First he posts about how to make money in a failing real estate market, than he talks about killing women, now he's going EMO over one chick over the internet. This guy is a loony, troll or not.Solomon said:Hold up a month ago I saw a thread of you talking about spinning 4 or 5 plates how do you go from that to a hooker?
I really wanna see a picture of you holding a sign saying "I am message boy" seriosuly.....
Synergy I'm gald I'm not the only onesynergy1 said:I can't believe people take this guy seriously. First he posts about how to make money in a failing real estate market, than he talks about killing women, now he's going EMO over one chick over the internet. This guy is a loony, troll or not.
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.
Exactly, Todd. And who would get that upset over a girl from online anyway? And who would post about this while he is in a hotel room with a prostitute in the bathroom ... come on, I am surprised he doesn't claim to be posting from the ledge outside the window on the tenth floor, with the crew from the fire department blowing up the mattress beneath him.Todd Preston said:1.
Snap out of it...you didn't lose an Arm in a Motorcycle accident.
2.
If you feel sorry for yourself, go do to the nearest hospital, go over to the HOSPICE section...and sit and talk with those people who are dying of cancer.
3.
Perhaps, you need some medication. Anyone who gets this upset over an internet date...might be unstable.
4.
Its a tough world out there...better get used to it.
5.
Better get some self-esteem going for yourself...or this world will eat you up alive.
6.
Make some real life friends....not just cyber buddies
7.
Go to School...get an education
8.
You've been brainwashed....better get started on the above.
Riiight.The Message Boy said:I mean, this was NOT just any old chick. What she said mattered. And now I feel:
> That I drive a chick car and now everytime I drive it I'm getting laughed at inside other people's heads.
> That ALL of my INSECURITIES WERE TRUE, I will NEVER succeed with women. And in thise case, it's because of **** I can't control, being UGLY or too short.
So, it's like, how DO I MOVE ON? How does approaching another girl HELP if she will have the same thoughts?
I mean, I must have (over the last three months) I must have messenged over 300 girls online and approached over 50 in person. That's 350 girls.
Doesn't mean he isn't a troll. I'm actually starting to believe he is, but I'll give it to him, he's done a decent job of it.Solomon said:Message Boy is not a troll, I repeat Message boy is not a troll
check the IP's
peace
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.
Tazman said:Doesn't mean he isn't a troll. I'm actually starting to believe he is, but I'll give it to him, he's done a decent job of it.
amoka said:I smell troll.
You are a troll. If you are not a troll then you are an idiot. If you are not an idiot, then you are a douchebag. You been talking a whole lot of "know it all" cr@p on here, and now you come out with this pvssy stuff.The Message Boy said:Okay guys, I know that I have been *****ing about this site but I need a Warrior, a JoPhil, a Rollo, a any ****ing body to help me.
I am BROKEN.
A girl that I have been talking to for 6 months, I met her online, we finally met up tonight and she goes into how I look nothing like my picture online and that she never wants to talk to me again. We were close and grew close. She said my car (2005 Dodge Neon, brand new, chrome), looks like a girl car and that I'm too short.
I know there's a number of things that are wrong here, including the fact that it took me 6 months to finally meet up with her but I've been busy.
I am BROKEN. She was a totally different person. Mind you, this girl is the ONLY girl I have met off online that said I didn't look like my picture. It threw me out of left field.
Everythign I THOUGHT I knew about women, the love, the honest, the pure-ness, I no longer see that anymore. She was bitter, cold, and just hated me. But literally 15 minutes prior, we were in love.
I know this sounds stupid and it sounds whiny, but I am HURT. I am BROKEN. I drove around for 2 hours just driving. I am right now literally sitting on my laptop in a hotel room with a hooker. I kid you not, I'm typing this up while she's in the bathroom.
I ....gush guys, I've preach so much around here but everything I thought I knew I don't know anymore.
I told you guys before that my BIGGEST problem with women is that I meet them and it takes ALONG time to close them. Very rarely do I get "rejections."
This rejection just hurt me. And, gosh, I just don't know. I just don't know I mean, what do I do? What do I say?
I mean just, idk, this girl was a TOTALLY different person. I had my mouth open wide it was....I don't know.
I just literally can't, I don't know.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.