"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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NEED critique of conversation with a spanish chick

Bigworm

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hey guys this is a instant messenger convo i had with this girl at my college ---btw AIM is the way u mack most of the time in american colleges
so this girl is an engineering major -- who is cute but reserved. she an ecuadorian from vermont go figure. anyway i want u guys to tell me wat i did wrong or right and wat i should use more of (etc.. c+f , push + pull, soi's)


bigworm3886: hey wats up
Auto response from ecua1231: its cold out
ecua1231: hey
bigworm3886: hey girl
Auto response from ecua1231: its cold out
bigworm3886: wasnt to friendly at LU
bigworm3886: too
ecua1231: haha how could i be
ecua1231: i didn tseeu come in
ecua1231: and thenu wen tto play
ecua1231: and i was talking to some other girls
ecua1231: hten we peaced out
bigworm3886: yeah i needed the luck
bigworm3886: i lost for the first time to dave
bigworm3886: that never happens
ecua1231: hot damn
ecua1231: what were u playhing?
bigworm3886: dominoes
ecua1231: nice.. yea that c`an get pretty intense
ecua1231: i like your hat u wore today
ecua1231: its funky
bigworm3886: ahha u knwo how cubans do
ecua1231 returned at 10:59:21 PM.
bigworm3886: wit the dominoes
ecua1231: haha
bigworm3886: "funky "- haha hah ur such a rocker girl
ecua1231: ahem.. i believe YOU called it WHITEWASH
bigworm3886: HAHAHAA
bigworm3886: hahah watever u would like
bigworm3886: so yeah u still havent said u wanted to c me
ecua1231: i thought i did.. on the phone when u called
ecua1231: dude but foreal
ecua1231: i want to work out
bigworm3886: yeah its good for u
ecua1231: i know
ecua1231: when do u go
bigworm3886: i go late - but i might change cause there tooo many plp
bigworm3886: when i gop
bigworm3886: have u worked out lately ?
ecua1231: at home last week
ecua1231: one of my roommates is starting to go too so i wanna start up
ecua1231: make it a regular thing
ecua1231: but its so damn cold out
bigworm3886: im thinkin 2 on thrusday
bigworm3886: we should make it a competion when we go
ecua1231: **** that.. i'm not a competivive person at all
ecua1231: and it would be not fair
ecua1231: cuz youre a guy
ecua1231: but what kind of competition were u thinking?
bigworm3886: hahahh- cardio run on the treadmill
ecua1231: oh yea?
ecua1231: i guedss i could take u on
ecua1231: what time
bigworm3886: whoever wins getsa message from the other person
ecua1231: :-(... i'll confess somehting
ecua1231: i dont like massages
ecua1231: too ticklish
bigworm3886: hmmm wat should we wager then ??:-*
ecua1231: hmmmm
ecua1231: i'malmost too shy to wager anything
bigworm3886: awww ur sooooooooooo cute
ecua1231: haha i can almost hear y0our sarcasm
bigworm3886: im dead serious
bigworm3886: i know ur kinda shy in the outside
ecua1231: i am
bigworm3886: i think so wat u do think
ecua1231: what do i think about..?/
ecua1231: woring out?
bigworm3886: wow ur offending me
ecua1231: no why??
ecua1231: no i'm seriously confused as to what u meant
bigworm3886: i meant ur adorable
ecua1231: haha oh
ecua1231: now youre justr making my shy self blush
bigworm3886: srry i was just making dinner
ecua1231: yumm what was it
bigworm3886: baked ziti
ecua1231: delicious
bigworm3886: so do u want me to choose the bet sinse ur sooshy
ecua1231: sure....
bigworm3886: i mean unless ur not comfortable with it
ecua1231: haha i dont even know hwat it is though......
ecua1231: " in quote"
ecua1231: ok here's the thing: lets get donw to business sir
bigworm3886: aight were goin to the gym at 2 on thrusday
ecua1231: ok wait i was about to say somehting but 2 doesn't work
ecua1231: i have class at 3
ecua1231: ... uh oh
bigworm3886: aight at 6
ecua1231: i have two classes back to bacik.. my last one ends at six
ecua1231: i could make it like 6 15 ish
bigworm3886: aight we can go 730
bigworm3886: so u have time
bigworm3886: ia that good
ecua1231: haha yes
ecua1231: but i'm sorry thatu have to go at night when u wanted to go during the day
bigworm3886: its ok - as long as u bring ur A game tommorow
bigworm3886: i mean thrusday
ecua1231: k
bigworm3886: ill be like ur made coach - and ull be the students
ecua1231: haha
bigworm3886: aight ill ttyl - miss shy girl
ecua1231: k bye O:)
ecua1231 signed off at 11:39:28 PM.
 

"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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i forgot to add - i was high when i talked to her
 
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Mack hors in person not IM!!!
 
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