"The Coffee Shop Girl You Never Spoke To"
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.
In Future, Girls Pay Beauty Tax; More Beautiful= More Tax, Moviecap
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"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"
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.
Not if the tax is high enough
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Senior Don Juan
One case of a direct comparison I noticed last week:
I use a German-made caffeine shampoo (Alpecin) - Commonly comes in two bottle sizes. The smaller is marketed at men (It is among the gent's toiletries section in most stores) - The larger bottle is almost always in the women's section.
They'd ran out of the smaller bottles at my local store so I went round the the women's section and got a larger bottle from there..
Compared the prices and amounts when I got home and it turned out that the larger bottle worked out at about 7% more expensive per litre.
Same product - same store - same day.
Only difference is that the larger bottle is marketed at women.... and therefore cost more per unit volume.
That has nothing to do with beauty tax
"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
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.
