Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
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.
And you sought it out out of CURIOUSITY, so what does that say about you?Unprez said:Holy **** from the title I thought that the OP was a fag...god change the friggin thread title
So you checked this thread out to see what kind of guys he was seeing to see if you fit the build .Unprez said:Holy **** from the title I thought that the OP was a fag...god change the friggin thread title
TheFlyOne said:So you checked this thread out to see what kind of guys he was seeing to see if you fit the build .
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.
ok relax guys it was a joke, and wht the hell is post flopping? I dont think anyone here would read this thread hoping that its a gay adTheFlyOne said:So you checked this thread out to see what kind of guys he was seeing to see if you fit the build .
Yeah, I see how well it's workingDon't care about any anti-txt or aim comments. I use all options and they all have their uses. It's how you use things.
Yeah, that's why you're posting about her instead of nexting her.she never just comes out and says what that activity is like most people (like I did when I don't give it a second thought and just said nope I got softball -- oh, look, her mystery is actually making me LOSE interest)
You don't have to be "squeezed in" to fit her schedule. Pick a day and see if she makes herself fit into yours. If not, say, "next time, maybe" then wait some days, pick another day and see if she makes herself available or not for the next date you suggest.I'm supposed to tell her today where/time we're gonna meet. Maybe i'll just tell her I don't want to be rushed and we can do it another day and she'll get the hint... or think i'm difficult and give up .
She's a free agent, as are you. Same day or spaced apart by a day, how does it really matter, you know?There's nothing wrong with seeing other guys, but on the same day?
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're not being weird at all. This is the attitude of a man of value. Your time is valuable, and you dont want to be squeezed inbetween activities because that not only conveys you are willing to accomodate HER schedule first but it also tips the frame in her favor, albeit subtly.mrRuckus said:Am I just being too weird about this? There's nothing wrong with seeing other guys, but on the same day? I don't want girls or this one in particular enough at this moment to want to deal with it. Even if this becomes something consistent I wouldn't want to continually be squeezed in with her always running somewhere.
No, you just recognize that you aren't a priority to her so the likelihood of getting down her pants without a long, drawn out effort is slim at best. I have had a few women like this in the recent past and no good ever came of the interaction. It shows that there isn't enough interest. And I'm not the kind of person who says "give up" if you can't make her cream her panties after 5 minutes, but if you are playing phone and text tag like that and she's shooting down offers you have already missed your prime opportunity to get her interest level high enough. Now it's an uphill battle because she doesn't SEE your value, and until you get together you have no way of demonstrating it.mrRuckus said:I'm probably oversensitive but at this point I don't care enough so i'm considering dropping the whole thing. I don't want to be squeeeeezed into a schedule.
I say you pick a time and a place that is convenient for you, tell her to be there, and if it is anything other than an enthusiastic "YES", you forget about her and find a chick who has time for you.She's showing interest, but not enough for my tastes. I'm supposed to tell her today where/time we're gonna meet. Maybe i'll just tell her i don't want to be rushed and we can do it another day and she'll get the hint... or think i'm difficult and give up.
Don't listen to that static. It's 2009, not 1959.(Don't care about any anti-txt or aim comments. I use all options and they all have their uses. It's how you use things.)
Unbridled_Phoenix said:Texting and AIM is for teenagers and women. I might reply to a text in a pinch but since I got a life it holds no appeal to me.
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.