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.
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.
You guys need to stop letting dweebs hang out with you.
its the strangers that give us carriage rides that make small talk and stuff. they say how did you meet? we figure its funny to tell strangers we met on an internet forum where men discuss women and dating and rant and rave and there is a few hundred guys and a handful of chicks on here.
Not if you're a late GenX or early GenY teenager...
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
Im with you on this...The only way to get noticed on myspace is you gotta take pics of yourself damn near naked...Im not taking pics like that of myself cause you never know who will see it, plus im not gonna cheapen myself to get online broads, you dont have to walk around with no shirt on in real life to get girls...Everyone that I know that has broads requesting them has at least one pic like that...I get requested by the fat busted white broads that have like 2,000 black dudes on their list and people trying to run scams and sh1t, lol...
What else do you expect from a free site?
You do have a point though...I guess cause you have to pay for the other sites, people are more serious about it...Maybe when I get older Ill try it out, but im young and stingy right now, lol...
This describes an ex of mine from a few years back. She had a virtual army of AFC's who would e-mail her and instant message her every day. One time I signed in with her account and got IM's from 20 different guys in 5 minutes and her Inbox was flooded with AFC mail. She would put "in relationship" in her profile and the AFC's still wouldn't relent. This experience has completely turned me off to IM and email as sarging communications.
Attraction runs on a clock.
She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.
The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."
One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.
Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.
Is "stingy" what you whippersnappers call "broke" nowadays?
lol it depends...Originally posted by Francisco d'Anconia
Is "stingy" what you whippersnappers call "broke" nowadays?