"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

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.

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Went clubbing for the first time

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For fundamentals: I am 19 year old foreigner living in Korea for nearly 2 years. mMostlyin here i was depressed because of the people I met; Koreans are always introverted, so i had to be the first to starta conversation with strangers

I thought clubbing was bad thing and would not work on my game, but i had a pretty crazy night i never forget so saturday night i head for the Seoul, Hongdae str; most wild clubs are there, people said, and I went solo

i checked some bars first , i was there pretty early it was around 8 :30 pm whi ch is way early for clubbing somehow , and explored the street till 10 am and i think around that time i went to the club called, La Bamba if not mistaken, its latin club and most people there are spanish and women are latinas, after talking a bit with two women , mostly talking i went for other corners of places and here i met a latina in her 30s , not much but pretty drunk, i asked her" where are you form" while she was sitting in the corner and drinking alone, and she immediatley just stand up and talking,(10/10) she was btw, so we talked for a bit, we started dancing ,and she started twerking for me and me- who never danced properly before just tried to vibe in , i was excited and hugging, and she was vibing with me , very fun woman btw, and when we were about to make out she asked"how old are you" i said 21 in korea age, which is 19 actually, born in 2005 and i did not know she was 30 bcs she looked young, and she said "you are a baby , you should look for people your age" and started closing the conversation not in a bad way though, she was respectful

after like 30 minutes i saw her dancing and making out with another random guy , and then i tried talking to other people , this club was crowded so , did not dance much and went for the other clubs in the area, not much to remember though, met some foreigners freindly and hugs and dances and stuff like that, and then came back to LaBamba again cuz that is where i liked , and then after noticing i was kinda getting lonely in the club and people started rejecting me, i said"**** it, **** everybody , i am just gonna dance the **** out till morning" , and did the dance that i never thought i could, untill morning i danced with strangers , sometimes i pulled girls , rarely though, around 4am , one girl and one guy both foreigner, just came up to me and dancing with me: i thought mosty i was just dancing like a freak and moving my whole body- i let loose BCS of the music, i did not care about the peole then even if i was getting laughed out, i did not care at all, ---i thought that couple was gonna laugh at me but when they came the guy was pretty friendly and we did dance together and we were just there having fun, teaching moves to each other , one time guy even shoulder me with one hand and danced pretty wild, i thoght they just maybe appreciated my vibes and after a while , they left , this kinda thing happened couple of times there and in the morning i left the club to my home now its is monday , the entry signs signed to hands slowly being erased, i never forget my first wild night and if i also make another time , might go again, what do you thnk about my night ?
 

"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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Lol....If you really like dancing, attend a local salsa dancing lesson class or start a dance party at your apartment...look up videos on youtube after taking a shower and start dancing in your living room. Look up at that scene by Tom Cruise in the movie Risky Business for example.

Going to a club by yourself these days is a bad idea my man. You should have bought a wing man. A lot of things could go wrong, it is a drunken, polluted, foul enviroment. Way better to order Pizza, put on some netflix or hulu, get ice cream and relax. And if you want to still roll and get out, go to your local Waffle house, Ihop or Denny's later and get a book, with headphones and listen to your favorite music or podcast to relax some more. A chilled peaceful night out is superior to a hang over the next day.

As you get older, you look at these lame typicalities of life as nonsense. If you want to get a rise out of 'Wild times', be a freakin Connoisseur of it. Do it the right way, take up things like Mountain biking, motorcycling, Skydiving, mountain climbing, hiking vast terrains in the middle of nowhere and taking up Capoeira in Jamaica for example lol haha. Use your imagination bro.

In the meantime, you're going to appreciate places like Poetry bars, coffee shops were they play your cool acoustic jams while you sip a glass of wine and read your favorite magazine and newspaper trust me. I also suggest you take up a few Public Speaking classes or events and take up an instrument and play at an open house show to show off your talents. This will give you a ton of testosterone, things like singing karaoke at a crowd is also a good one.

 

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For fundamentals: I am 19 year old foreigner living in Korea for nearly 2 years. mMostlyin here i was depressed because of the people I met; Koreans are always introverted, so i had to be the first to starta conversation with strangers

I thought clubbing was bad thing and would not work on my game, but i had a pretty crazy night i never forget so saturday night i head for the Seoul, Hongdae str; most wild clubs are there, people said, and I went solo

i checked some bars first , i was there pretty early it was around 8 :30 pm whi ch is way early for clubbing somehow , and explored the street till 10 am and i think around that time i went to the club called, La Bamba if not mistaken, its latin club and most people there are spanish and women are latinas, after talking a bit with two women , mostly talking i went for other corners of places and here i met a latina in her 30s , not much but pretty drunk, i asked her" where are you form" while she was sitting in the corner and drinking alone, and she immediatley just stand up and talking,(10/10) she was btw, so we talked for a bit, we started dancing ,and she started twerking for me and me- who never danced properly before just tried to vibe in , i was excited and hugging, and she was vibing with me , very fun woman btw, and when we were about to make out she asked"how old are you" i said 21 in korea age, which is 19 actually, born in 2005 and i did not know she was 30 bcs she looked young, and she said "you are a baby , you should look for people your age" and started closing the conversation not in a bad way though, she was respectful

after like 30 minutes i saw her dancing and making out with another random guy , and then i tried talking to other people , this club was crowded so , did not dance much and went for the other clubs in the area, not much to remember though, met some foreigners freindly and hugs and dances and stuff like that, and then came back to LaBamba again cuz that is where i liked , and then after noticing i was kinda getting lonely in the club and people started rejecting me, i said"**** it, **** everybody , i am just gonna dance the **** out till morning" , and did the dance that i never thought i could, untill morning i danced with strangers , sometimes i pulled girls , rarely though, around 4am , one girl and one guy both foreigner, just came up to me and dancing with me: i thought mosty i was just dancing like a freak and moving my whole body- i let loose BCS of the music, i did not care about the peole then even if i was getting laughed out, i did not care at all, ---i thought that couple was gonna laugh at me but when they came the guy was pretty friendly and we did dance together and we were just there having fun, teaching moves to each other , one time guy even shoulder me with one hand and danced pretty wild, i thoght they just maybe appreciated my vibes and after a while , they left , this kinda thing happened couple of times there and in the morning i left the club to my home now its is monday , the entry signs signed to hands slowly being erased, i never forget my first wild night and if i also make another time , might go again, what do you thnk about my night ?
Good job. Keep putting yourself out there, even in other ways. Don't listen to the other guy, pretty sure he moved to thailand because he had no success in the states. You don't need a wingman. Going out solo is awesome and you'll get used to it.
 

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For fundamentals: I am 19 year old foreigner living in Korea for nearly 2 years. mMostlyin here i was depressed because of the people I met; Koreans are always introverted, so i had to be the first to starta conversation with strangers

I thought clubbing was bad thing and would not work on my game, but i had a pretty crazy night i never forget so saturday night i head for the Seoul, Hongdae str; most wild clubs are there, people said, and I went solo

i checked some bars first , i was there pretty early it was around 8 :30 pm whi ch is way early for clubbing somehow , and explored the street till 10 am and i think around that time i went to the club called, La Bamba if not mistaken, its latin club and most people there are spanish and women are latinas, after talking a bit with two women , mostly talking i went for other corners of places and here i met a latina in her 30s , not much but pretty drunk, i asked her" where are you form" while she was sitting in the corner and drinking alone, and she immediatley just stand up and talking,(10/10) she was btw, so we talked for a bit, we started dancing ,and she started twerking for me and me- who never danced properly before just tried to vibe in , i was excited and hugging, and she was vibing with me , very fun woman btw, and when we were about to make out she asked"how old are you" i said 21 in korea age, which is 19 actually, born in 2005 and i did not know she was 30 bcs she looked young, and she said "you are a baby , you should look for people your age" and started closing the conversation not in a bad way though, she was respectful

after like 30 minutes i saw her dancing and making out with another random guy , and then i tried talking to other people , this club was crowded so , did not dance much and went for the other clubs in the area, not much to remember though, met some foreigners freindly and hugs and dances and stuff like that, and then came back to LaBamba again cuz that is where i liked , and then after noticing i was kinda getting lonely in the club and people started rejecting me, i said"**** it, **** everybody , i am just gonna dance the **** out till morning" , and did the dance that i never thought i could, untill morning i danced with strangers , sometimes i pulled girls , rarely though, around 4am , one girl and one guy both foreigner, just came up to me and dancing with me: i thought mosty i was just dancing like a freak and moving my whole body- i let loose BCS of the music, i did not care about the peole then even if i was getting laughed out, i did not care at all, ---i thought that couple was gonna laugh at me but when they came the guy was pretty friendly and we did dance together and we were just there having fun, teaching moves to each other , one time guy even shoulder me with one hand and danced pretty wild, i thoght they just maybe appreciated my vibes and after a while , they left , this kinda thing happened couple of times there and in the morning i left the club to my home now its is monday , the entry signs signed to hands slowly being erased, i never forget my first wild night and if i also make another time , might go again, what do you thnk about my night ?
Not sure I understand you entirely: Do you still live in Korea now, or have you returned to The US? If the former, what you pulled off was impressive... You not only found a club named La Bamba in the most xenophobic nation in The Post-Industrial World, but also bumped into a poor man's Salma Hayek, and apparently had something approaching a spark with her

That's pretty remarkable :cool:
 

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He shouldered you with 1 hand?
You mean he was breakdancing?

"the entry signs signed to hands slowly being erased"
Huh? Something must've gotten lost in translation because I have no clue what that means.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

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.

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"the entry signs signed to hands slowly being erased"
Huh? Something must've gotten lost in translation because I have no clue what that means.
He means the stamps and X's and stuff they mark your hands & wrists with at the clubs. They don't just wash off easily.

Sounds like he had a blast.

I loved the music & loved to dance at the clubs. I went by myself plenty. I was there enough that I knew everyone in short order. That way I could go when I wanted, leave when I wanted, and not have to deal with somebody else's agenda. I loved the energy of it.

One of these days I may go to Ibiza. I don't think I want to do a full on rave like Tomorrowland, but it might be a ball.

Many years of super fun nights, great friends, great music. Ah. The old lady is rather nostalgic. Pure joy.
 
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