The Night
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FYI I'm new to this. I was talking to a girl at a bar tonight for 2 minutes and a male friend comes over and grabs her arm. I introduced myself and he says "I dont care." and pulls her away. How should I have handled this?
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
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.
Good call scrumtulescence, she was drunk.Originally posted by Scrumtulescence
Was the girl drunk?
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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.
looks like you're onto something here but you didn't write enough for me to learn anything.Originally posted by The_Shezzler
You should have AMOGed him - AMOG = Alpha Male other Guy, TD has a plethora of different lines and information on this.
Tool the guy in front of the girl - make him look a fool!
DAS
Sarge On...
Are you having a bad night man?Originally posted by ethnomethodologist
Jay(attiqaaluk) you are pretty stupid, and you sound gay. Please smarten up, stop trying to seem cool, start learning something. Don't ask stupid questions anymore, and stop making comments that a 5 year old would laugh at.
She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.