"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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"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

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.

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Watch College Football, or play the piano.

I don't know what it is about football, but i love the strategy that goes along with the game. A good offensive or Defensive coordnatior is a football genius. Norm Chow is probably the best person I have ever seen at exploiting a teams weaknesses.
 

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Originally posted by backbreaker
I don't know what it is about football, but i love the strategy that goes along with the game. A good offensive or Defensive coordnatior is a football genius. Norm Chow is probably the best person I have ever seen at exploiting a teams weaknesses.
College football pretty much consumes my weekend also. But god I love it.

Then there's the parties, I also hang out at my friends a lot, play some video games when nothing else to do, and try to squeeze some homework in there every so often. I think I'm gonna join a SAE forumula-1 car buildup here but we'll see how that goes. I love cars.
 

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BELIEVE IT or not, that's how I started getting into football.

I didn't even know what football was until i was 12 (dead serious)... My dad bought me Madden for my birthday and I was like "what the **** is this" Then I started playing it and it was pretty fun and all, and the more complex the games got the more I realized that football is the ultimate strategy game.


Here is a fun hobby that I used to do but don't anymore because I know pretty m uch anythinhg there is to know... learn how to dance. I mean really dance. It's time consuming and you will actually be learning something that will get you cool points in the future
 

"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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golf, gun range, drive the back roads and carve up the twisties. I'm planning a mini road trip to the north ga mountains with friends, just to drive around the montains. I'm actually modding the suspension of my car for this trip.
 
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