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.
USA has been wearing masks since Spring. EVERYWHERE
You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
The biggest difference between US and the rest of the world is each state(and city) in the US has different laws and rules and thus aren't unified in their approach. Where as you see more unification in other countries as a whole. Things can only be effective if treated as a whole. But that also needs compliance and the same belief from everyone. Communist countries or ones with more of a strong arm dictator style has an easier time to just throw down the hammer without much resistance.
Basic response across states has been the same, except for minor differences.
I agree but the implementation and results have been different between them. I find the quarantine and restricted list of states to be bogus and comical though because unless EVERYONE got tested, the figures for positive covid results are arbiturary at best. Let's say one week you have 2000 people just randomly having extra time to get tested while the next week you only have 300 people willing to get pro-actively tested. Totally a logic fail and why these restricted states lists are BS.
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.
No, I don’t secretly wish for more senseless covid deaths due to the incompetence of this government.
Nooo, don't take it donnie, it's novichok!!!
The quarantine lists are based on %positivity of tests, not total number of positives.
Trump has been wearing masks since July. You are talking old news. No country has 100% cooperation.
Yeah but it's still flawed though as you only have people voluntarily getting tested and not everyone. That was my point.
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.
No he has not.
That’s not flawed all. Everyone not being tested is our own governments failure to produce widespread testing availability.
You seem like you depend on too much on the government and so called health experts but I digress. Go on about your life and I'll do the same.
You might want to visit China, oh, wait, just Hong-Kong would be fine...
Public health is the government’s responsibility. Theres no escaping the failures of the US leadership on this issue.
Might have qn argument there. Don't know exact stats on people's cooperation in various countries.
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.
Rather strange that all the world leaders who did not take masking seriously ended up with Covid 19.
At what cost
just so you know even the ones who take the virus "serious" caught it, worse part is none died of it, the damn virus is so letal all the oldies politicians who caught didn't die, they are still alive and kicking(and stealing)
Surely less than 200,000 deaths and a wrecked economy
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.