MatureDJ
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"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."
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.
Playboy article: Pick--up Lines That Have Actually Worked
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"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.
Serenity
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Amusing.
When I first met my girlfriend she said "I'm used to pain" in a happy way, it was just such a fvcked up thing to say that it really intrigued me. She wasn't even consciously trying to pick me up, it just randomly came out of her and that made her even more interesting.
When I first met my girlfriend she said "I'm used to pain" in a happy way, it was just such a fvcked up thing to say that it really intrigued me. She wasn't even consciously trying to pick me up, it just randomly came out of her and that made her even more interesting.
zekko
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I always thought that whoever came up with the "You're my girlfriend for the next five minutes" line was pretty clever, I've always thought that was a good line. Sets up a non-platonic frame without being crude or serious. But I would NEVER use it, it's such a CLICHE now, straight from the Mystery playbook and sounds like it. If it wasn't so well known I would.
Huffman
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Well, was she?
I think you can use such lines to great success if you adapt them to the situation, but not cold & out of the blue.
Serenity
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She's still my girlfriend, so yes very interesting.
"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.