"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
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.
is this true? most girls in class with their cell phones visible have a bf...
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"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.
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the only way to find out is to ask. there is no rule out there that applies to every woman.cguy2004 said:
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Now this is a very specific observation, but I've made it many times in many places, and it might just be me, but whenever I see a girl who always has her phone on hand, many times it's because she doesn't have enough going on in her life.
Personally, I find that the more fun I'm having, the less I check phone, email. Women who are on their phone all the time are, according to my observations, the kind who think that "some thing about whatever that my friend has to tell me" is the most important thing that's happened to her all day. And then they wanna talk to me about it. And I want to leave. And I do.
In short, they tend to be the female equivalent of the AFC.
I already got rid of Facebook, and that's been going great. No need for every girl out there to be able to look up your friends and find photos of you wearing women's underwear in a Rocky Horror production. That's neither here nor there.
God damn, work is driving me crazy lately...
"So, What Do You Do for Fun?"
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.
Iceberg
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Save yourself trouble by developing the assumption that any girl with an active interest in her cell phone has a boyfriend?cguy2004 said:
I don't know if I had too much coffee today or what, but that has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've heard in a long time.
Talk to women and you'll find out their interest in you. A girl might have a boyfriend and wanna date you anyway. You can't just assume that a girl checking her cellphone is doing so because she has a man. Christ. That's not even logical. Stop trying to play it safe and just talk to people.
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"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"
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.
What the hell man, why should it matter? For all you know she can be expecting a message from her grandpa that came over to visit and is gonna meet her after class.cguy2004 said:
The point is: even if she has a boyfriend what´s the problem of talking with her, getting to know her? Is the universe gonna collapse? The sun turn into a supernova?
You are just preemptively looking for excuses not to act, to not step out of the comfort zone.
Like someone very wise once said, "scared little boys dont get to kiss pretty girls".
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"I just moved here from Florida."
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.