She calls you when her car breaks down. When she needs help moving. When some guy she's actually dating treats her badly.
You're the listener. The reliable one. The guy who would treat her so much better, if she'd just open her eyes.
She won't. You trained her to see you as the low-effort option — the friend who requires zero risk and zero investment. Every favor dug the hole deeper.
The "22 Rules" break the pattern. You'll stop auditioning for a role she already cast and become the man she chases instead. It starts with Rule 1.
Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.
She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.
Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.
So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.
The words come later. The impression comes first.
I don't follow what celebrities do...I was watching CNN...the news. I didn't even know she was in trouble until I heard about this on CNN. When I heard that she got her license taken for a DUI and then got caught driving twice after that and ignored the probation requirements then yeah...I think it's comical that she's going to jail for 45 days. If it were you you'd go to jail for close to a year.Michele said:i hate people who care about celebrity people's lives.
if you find their life so interesting... i dont know.... you just need to make yours more interesting... enough said.
i don't see whats so funny, cool, or interesting about it. theres a ton more interesting things out there than some media-wh0re's life.
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the only replies will probably be about her sex tape, how shes a "hor" (it'll probably be Last Man Standing who's going to say it), etc.
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.
lol :crackup:Master Bates said:thats hot.
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.
Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For?
Hahaha that's what her butch cell mate will say... :yes:Wyldfire said:lol :crackup:
A few things:djSlvt said:Paris is getting off easy for DUI, probation violation, and court contempt. 45 days in jail (not prison), is not that bad, especially if you don't care if fellon label bothering you for life (as in getting a job).
Actually...he only gave her half of the time he could have given her...90 days.Deep Dish said:A few things:
- Violation of probation for a misdemeanor is not a felony.
- You cannot be sentenced to prison for any sentence shorter than six months.
- By media reports, the judge threw the book at Paris.
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.
I stand corrected. Facts get fuzzy over time...Deus ex Pianoforte said:You're right about the probation violation not being a felony, but the limit is 12 months.
Yeah, such as laughing and saying "Can I get your autograph?" (Also, 45 days is apparently the maximum sentence. The judge said that if she didn't show up to jail, he'd double the sentence to 90 days.)Wyldfire:
She should have left her mother at home...Mrs. Hilton was heckling the prosecutor and judge according to some reports.
I don't want to hijack the conversation but one month ago I was arrested on DUI. First time in handcuffs. My case is legally indefensible (no aggravating factors except I blew twice the legal limit) and I'm pleading guilty. The whole experience has been and will continue to be very humbling. I'm getting sentenced rather soon and am hoping to avert jail.She got jail time because she has spent the last few months acting like the laws don't apply to her...and she hasn't done even one thing she was required to do as part of her probation.
Its not because she is female AT ALL.Zwitterion said:If she was a man you guys would be egging her on cus she does what she wants has loads and loads of confidence and just doesn't give ****. But because she represents the girl who has everything that wouldn't give you the time of day in high school you bash her and call her a ***** and pretend she's ugly.
Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.
Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?
You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.
Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.