"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.

I considered tatoos on women to be a minus but...

Thread starter Who Dares Win
Start date May 20, 2013

Zerro

Master Don Juan

May 20, 2013

djgirl said:
Well it looks like A LOT of people are going to be out of employment then since the majority of todays society all have tattoos....visible ones too. Come to australia, you'll be shocked. However Our tattoos doesn't define our work. What a shallow comment -_-

Sounds more like you've never been outside of your little corner of the world.

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.