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.
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.
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.
jtlancer said:Placed on bucket list. I will go out on the dance floor first
and dance like the world is ending tomorrow.
Flash mobs are choreographed.BBbardot said:it's called a flashmob...
it's set up in advance on facebook.
edit: you must be all 12 yo or totally unaware of
this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN_YvaW505c&feature=related
watch until the end this is pretty amazing.
or this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9rytUeq62k
please guys promise me you won't start dancing like that cause nobody is going to follow most likely. IT's a flash mob. It's looks good on youtube but it's not really sponteinious.
Sigh, if you gonna link me to a 12 yo please make sure your info is correct, dumbass...BBbardot said:it's called a flashmob...
it's set up in advance on facebook.
edit: you must be all 12 yo or totally unaware of
this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN_YvaW505c&feature=related
watch until the end this is pretty amazing.
or this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9rytUeq62k
please guys promise me you won't start dancing like that cause nobody is going to follow most likely. IT's a flash mob. It's looks good on youtube but it's not really sponteinious.
-chalengeguyfan not always. flashmob= flash mobilisation A flash mob (or flashmob)[1] is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and pointless act for a brief time.
also there is flashmobs where poeple just stop moving. Seems like the only constant is public place and creating surprise doing something to together when we are suposed to be strangers.