Vantagepoint34
Master Don Juan
Just post what kind of severe weather you have in your state. And you can say what you deal with on a day to day basis.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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.
What happened with that storm that was over there. Did it hit LA?Marvin Gaye said:CALIFORNIA BABY !!!!
It get's severely cloudy sometimes. HAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We're you there for the blizzard of 96?Mike32ct said:We don't have much severe weather in Connecticut.
Blizzards happen sometimes during the winter.
Hurricanes or tropical storms maybe every 5 or 10+ years.
That's about it.
That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?
She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."
She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.
I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.
Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.
Yes.vantagepoint said:We're you there for the blizzard of 96?
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.
That was bad.Mike32ct said:Yes.
I love Florida just to visit.:cheer:Deep Dish said:I live in Florida, the lightning capitol of the states. And I live in the lightning alley of Florida. The narrow corridor between Tampa and Titusville has thunderstorms 100 days out of the year.
And then, of course, there was the year with six hurricanes, with four in five weeks. Hurricanes always ruin your weekend plans, never your work schedule.
or last year when we had that ice storm .... that thing sucked. Not to mention all these tornado warnings recently.Mike32ct said:We don't have much severe weather in Connecticut.
Blizzards happen sometimes during the winter.
Hurricanes or tropical storms maybe every 5 or 10+ years.
That's about it.
LOL not sure if srsBible_Belt said:This year we had the worst drought in at least 55 years. Last year we had a 100-year flood and killer tornadoes.
The arctic icecap is almost entirely gone in summer now. The drastic weather is only going to get worse.
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.
What?:woo:Deep Dish said:The only remaining vestige of legitimate scientific disagreement about if global warming/climate change is anthropogenic, above and beyond the natural cycles, concerns clouds. If carbon emissions by humans heat up the atmosphere, the dissenting argument follows, then there should be more clouds, cooling the earth back down. If this clouds argument is falsified then we are all fücked.
The cities that have it worse are Miami and New Orleans:box:OzyBoy said:Maybe a bad thunderstorm and lots of rain. I have experienced a hail storm before where it looked like it had been snowing in the middle of summer.![]()
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