"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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Loaned Money

Mitza

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I have loaned money to some of my friends, and some of them don't have from where to game me back that money soon.What do you advise me to to ? I need the money.
 

"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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Bible_Belt

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Yes indeed. Loaning money ruins friendships.

Although I'm not sure exactly how the legal system works in Russia, in the US people who loan money get a signed promissory note (IOU) and enough collateral to cover the loan in case they don't pay.
 

diablo

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The best option you have is to ask for the money back. If they don't reimburse you, it might be prudent to 'procure' items that they own of a similar value to what they owe you until such a time that they do decide to remit payment. If they choose not to, resell these items. Be aware that when you try to collect money from a 'friend' that you may in fact lose their 'friendship' (if they ever were really a friend in the first place).
 
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