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.
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.
It's funny you say that about choosing your own government. If I decided to start an uprising they would call me a terrorists and nutjob. I was never lulled into a false sense of security. I always said we need to invest in foreign oil :woo: Big moneycomic_relief said:a lot of the price of oil has to do with supply disruptions in the oil producing countries.
Right now, the Middle East is breaking out with a revolutionary furor not seen in over thirty years. Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, just to name a few Middle Eastern countries that are having problems. Saudi Arabia is attempting to stop any revolutionary furor with its Shiah Minority in the southeast.
I'm not sorry that you when I see young men and women fighting to throw off the yolk of oppression and authoritarian leaders. I stand firmly on the side of democracy and freedom to choose your own government. Once these countries stabilize in a few years, than the price will go down again.
I just wish that the price of oil never went down in 2008 because it lulled Americans into a false sense of security over low gas prices. The price drop was just because of the recession. Be prepared for oil to go up even further.
- comic_relief
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.