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.
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.
Dude, get your panties out of a wad.Unbridled_Phoenix said:I hope that story gets all the exposure it deserves. If I was writing for a national instead of a local paper, I'd get it in.
STR8UP - you are a c0cksvcker, straightup. I've been with you all along, but your little comment about "take a tour in Iraq, it'll make you a real man pffft" should be said aloud in public so an ex-Marine like myself can about face and k!ck your fvcking @ss. I saw my friends blown to pieces, and we endured things a lifelong civilian PUNK like you cannot possibly imagine.
Your attempt to discredit the honor and courage of veterans is as feeble as your own character and, consequently, your manhood.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
You are getting VERY close to offending a lot of vets, both serving and retired . Back off this one STR8.. it is not a scrap you want to start.STR8UP said:This is the problem with men these days. You're brainwashed into automatically believing that since you are a man, you were born to sacrifice yourself for the good of society. Whether it's playing Cap'n save-a-ho or jumping in front of a bullet, you think your life is worth so little that
I'm not saying that they are eager to die. I don't doubt that the military instills positive traits in a man, but I don't buy the fact that there is a "high price for not joining".Unbridled_Phoenix said:Wrong. Eighteen year old guys don't join the Marines because they're so eager to die, they do so because they want to live. They want to know what brotherhood is. Honor, courage, and unselfish gallantry are not the Disney movie, "feminized social conventions" you rationalize them to be. But men can only know these things by chancing death, never by chasing women.
It was far worse than the cost of not joining.
That part was supposed to be deleted due to the fact that it wasn't the best way to express my thoughts, but I make no apologies. If it offends someone I know they haven't stopped for a second to think about it.jophil28 said:You are getting VERY close to offending a lot of vets, both serving and retired . Back off this one STR8.. it is not a scrap you want to start.
STR8UP said:That part was supposed to be deleted due to the fact that it wasn't the best way to express my thoughts, but I make no apologies. If it offends someone I know they haven't stopped for a second to think about it.
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.
No, you don't understand the fact that I am not insulting their sacrifice, I am pointing out the fundamental mistake most guys make getting caught up in the groupthink that leads them to believe that they are actually getting a fair return on their investment.jophil28 said:Ahh, never mind...you will never understand why men are prepared to risk their lives to give you the freedom to insult their sacrifice.
As with many things in life, this is both a strength and a weakness depending on context as well as one's perspective.Danger said:their weakness often lies in their ability to follow orders without question.
The military is not supposed to be some brotherhood academy and a place where one goes to learn to be a man.Unbridled_Phoenix said:Wrong. Eighteen year old guys don't join the Marines because they're so eager to die, they do so because they want to live. They want to know what brotherhood is. Honor, courage, and unselfish gallantry are not the Disney movie, "feminized social conventions" you rationalize them to be. But men can only know these things by chancing death, never by chasing women.
It was far worse than the cost of not joining.