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.
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
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
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.