"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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It's awkward being tall sometimes

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Average height in the Netherlands is 6', rising at a rate of 1" every ten years.

Dutch overlords in fifty years? I didn't see that coming.
 

"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.

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Originally posted by mroriginal
thats because you live in ITALY!! !:rolleyes: I dont know how tall everyone is their, but every country is diferent I think, In the U.S the average height is 5'9
italians are usually shorter than americans...
a girl i know that lives in america says her boyfriend is short... and he's 5'8 and a half... if 5'9 were the average, half a inch less wouldn't be short...
 

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if italians are shorter than why do you say the average height over there is 5'11-6'0 ?

btw My mom side of the family is sicilian and two of her brothers are 5'6,5'5 shes 5'4, my moms granparents are short as well, I dont know about the entire country of italy though, but sicilians are short lol!.
 
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Originally posted by mroriginal
if italians are shorter than why do you say the average height over there is 5'11-6'0 ?
because it is... my younger brother is 6'0 even and he's perfectly average in his junior class... i'm 5'9 and i'm the shortest one in my senior...
 

"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.

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