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.
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.
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
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.