"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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I went to bed fine yesterday woke up today in a different world, been getting worse and worse all day, this morning was just nose running and about 8 hours later my eye is watering so bad I can't open it, never experienced any sort of sickness with such a quick and intense onset
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Take care of yourself!
 

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I went to bed fine yesterday woke up today in a different world, been getting worse and worse all day, this morning was just nose running and about 8 hours later my eye is watering so bad I can't open it, never experienced any sort of sickness with such a quick and intense onset
Get tested....are you vaccinated?
 

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I went to bed fine yesterday woke up today in a different world, been getting worse and worse all day, this morning was just nose running and about 8 hours later my eye is watering so bad I can't open it, never experienced any sort of sickness with such a quick and intense onset
Are you sure it's not allergies, sinusitis or post nasal drip? COVID-19 symptoms are usually:

Fever or chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Headache
New loss of taste or smell <----- major key
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea
 

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What ever it is that you are experiencing, I hope that you recover soon.
 

"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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Get tested....are you vaccinated?
They have slowed vaccinating to a crawl so unfortunately not.

Are you sure it's not allergies, sinusitis or post nasal drip? COVID-19 symptoms are usually:

Fever or chills
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Fatigue
Muscle or body aches
Headache
New loss of taste or smell <----- major key
Sore throat
Congestion or runny nose
Nausea or vomiting
Diarrhea
I don't know, I'm still experiencing every symptom, I have to go sit in the drive thru, I haven't had anything besides water so I'm gonna make some tea here and see if I can taste it, I totally forgot about the taste thing
 

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They have slowed vaccinating to a crawl so unfortunately not.


I don't know, I'm still experiencing every symptom, I have to go sit in the drive thru, I haven't had anything besides water so I'm gonna make some tea here and see if I can taste it, I totally forgot about the taste thing
Are you in the US?

Vaccination and getting a COVID test are completely different things.

Being tested just shows if you have the virus or not.
 

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Are you in the US?

Vaccination and getting a COVID test are completely different things.

Being tested just shows if you have the virus or not.
I understand the difference, the thing is we have a scheduling backlog so I've been scheduled to get it but I don't have it until August
 

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I understand the difference, the thing is we have a scheduling backlog so I've been scheduled to get it but I don't have it until August
Seriously? That's pretty crazy. You can pretty much go to any pharmacy here and get a rapid test done as a walk in and get the results back in 15 minutes or less.
 

"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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Wishing you a quick recovery; everything will be okay
 

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No the vaccine, the test we have a drive thru
That's even more crazy...every vax center in this area has 500+ appointments for as far out as you can schedule. But the vax rate in NY is pretty high...

Getting a vax now would not help at all, you have to wait until a few months after you recover I believe to get a vax if you have it.
 

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That's even more crazy...every vax center in this area has 500+ appointments for as far out as you can schedule. But the vax rate in NY is pretty high...

Getting a vax now would not help at all, you have to wait until a few months after you recover I believe to get a vax if you have it.
I have to read up on if I can get it if I test positive. I'm not sure how you would see that as even more crazy, I feel like your gas lighting.
 

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I have to read up on if I can get it if I test positive. I'm not sure how you would see that as even more crazy, I feel like your gas lighting.
Most professionals advise that you can get vaxed post Covid, after your quarantine time is done and you are no longer communicable.
Then there’s the argument that after Covid infection the body has built it’s own natural antibodies, but if I neglected to get vaxed before I came down with Covid, I would just get it done afterwards, forget about it, and get on with more important things …
 

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I have to read up on if I can get it if I test positive. I'm not sure how you would see that as even more crazy, I feel like your gas lighting.
That there are no vax appointments? I'm not sure where you are located but there are far far more vaccine doses here than people to get vax'd right now. I am assuming you aren't in the US or if you are must be in a very low vaccinated area where people are suddenly rushing to get it. That hasn't been the case for months here.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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That there are no vax appointments? I'm not sure where you are located but there are far far more vaccine doses here than people to get vax'd right now. I am assuming you aren't in the US or if you are must be in a very low vaccinated area where people are suddenly rushing to get it. That hasn't been the case for months here.
I believe he resides in Canada…
 

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I believe he resides in Canada…
That explains it...Canada is lagging badly with that...to the chagrin of all the US border dwellers who haven't been able to visit family, run their businesses or check on their properties for almost a year and a half now...CA border reopening on the 9th of August to US residents and people are stoked.
 

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They have slowed vaccinating to a crawl so unfortunately not.


I don't know, I'm still experiencing every symptom, I have to go sit in the drive thru, I haven't had anything besides water so I'm gonna make some tea here and see if I can taste it, I totally forgot about the taste thing
Taste/smell thing is pretty unique to COVID. The rest could be due to a common cold, allergies, sinusitis (https://acpinternist.org/archives/2011/01/sinusitis.htm), or the summer flu (https://www.healthline.com/health/summer-flu).
 

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Yeah I got no taste, also I'm working from home so I had no desire to get the vaccine back when they had dedicated sites which are all but shut down now, figured I'd be able to go later on but the ignorance in this country just keeps heightening, it's incredible really.

I 10000% got it from the Steam Room at the pool I'm sure, knew I was taking a risk even sitting alone in there, but I don't have immune comp family living with me right now so I'm free to take some of these risks I haven't been able to on the past, but the onset was crazy fast, maybe that's why.
 

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Drink lots of warm water. If you have ginger, grind it with hot water and drink it. Time to make your immune system word a bit harder.
 

"You Can't Argue a Woman Into Liking You"

You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.

She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.

Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.

Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.

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