"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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Crazy Asian

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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.

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Blackmm said:
That is chump change for a Violin.

My ex's father got a 500k Stradivarius violin as a gift from his wife.
He showed me a catalog with Stradivarius violin from the 18th century costing as much as 1.2 million dollars.

I asked why would you want to buy a 1.2 million dollar violin?"

His answer was "some people buy paintings for more"
 

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Crazy Asian said:
they say they're gonna buy be a new car when i can drive, but i'd glady get a violin instead. But that one website has sh1tty violins.

aight, i'm off to rob some niggaz.

http://www.acavalloviolins.com/instruments/bitterer.jpg
http://www.acavalloviolins.com/instruments/pierray.jpg
http://www.acavalloviolins.com/instruments/quaranta.jpg
http://www.acavalloviolins.com/instruments/04-masterart.jpg
Asians are fvcking genius' but what the hell happens to you guys behind the wheel of a car?
 

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Seriously, is he going to play the thing or hang it up for display? I wouldn't buy a Bently to just drive to work and the store.
 

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Baruch said:
That is chump change for a Violin.

My ex's father got a 500k Stradivarius violin as a gift from his wife.
He showed me a catalog with Stradivarius violin from the 18th century costing as much as 1.2 million dollars.

I asked why would you want to buy a 1.2 million dollar violin?"

His answer was "some people buy paintings for more"
Nice, but they go for much more than 1.2mil
the most ever sold for in public was 3.5 mil -ish, but they have been sold privately for much more. But those are the crappy ones he made in his 93 years. The best of stradivarius are not sold, but handed down from one soloist to another.

But recently, they made a violin that sounded better than the stradivarius violins, proven in a blind hearing test of music teachers and soloists.
 

"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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