"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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White noise

Thatfeel21

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So who here can't fall asleep without having some sort of noise in the background (tv, radio, fan/a.c.)??
 

"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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KontrollerX

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*Raises hand*

I typically leave my tv, fan or both on in order to get to sleep.

The fan serves the duel purpose of white noise and to not wake up hot or sweating.

Good for comfort all around basically.
 

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I try not to sleep with my fan on. Fans, Airconditioners, running cars, the sound of wheels on the road while in a car, air planes, buzzing lights in drunk tanks etc etc. These things put me in to a virtual coma and I have EXTREME difficulty waking up. I literally have to force myself up for work if I leave my ceiling fan on. On my days off I definatly leave it on medium though! That kind of sleep is like drugs!
 

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white noise is the best. humidifier for me. i cant stand silence.

but now that i think about it, i should down load some mp3s of whales, i bet that would work well also.
 

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If I don't have my fan on mosquitoes will eat me alive.
 

"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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When I'm ready to crash, I'll sleep over anything from dead silence to world War III... but the noise most likely to keep me awake is a ticking clock with hardly any sound around it: I'm accustomed to clocks that make light grinding noises.
 

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My girlfrind has that problem, too. It will be in the dead of winter, blowing snow and ice and **** like crazy outside and she always has to leave the fan running at the foot of the bed all nite long so that she can sleep. The only problem is that it freezes the **** out of my feet, so I'm always having to get up and turn the damn thing off... then she wakes up and turns it back on again!:crazy:

I personally havn't ever had much of a problem falling asleep... :yawn:
 
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I like falling to sleep to the sound of a ticking time bomb!! So I made a alarm clock contraption whereby It constantly ticks like a bomb and then when the alarm goes off - the sound of a bomb goes off!! Kaboom!!!!!

As you can imagine - I wake up with a bang and quite frantic, and I am too alarmed to hit the "snooze" button! As an "alarm" clock, it gets the job done and fulfills its' intended purpose!!
 

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I've slept through alarm clocks. Really.

And sometimes woke up "recalling a dream" in which I turned off an alarm clock.
 
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Bonhomme said:
I've slept through alarm clocks. Really.

And sometimes woke up "recalling a dream" in which I turned off an alarm clock.
I should start marketing and selling my "Kaboom" alarm clock! If you had the Kaboom alarm, you'll be looking for your gun instead of trying to hit the snooze button!

I used to have dreams that an alarm was going off in my dream so I thought it was part of my dream and not the real world!, so I never woke up! This is why I invented the ticking time bomb alarm clock!! Did I tell you it makes a "Kaboom" bomb alarm sound? You will be too scared to go back to sleep!!
 

"How I Made Sure No Woman Ever Friend-Zoned Me Again"

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.

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:crackup:

Yah, I could use ont of them ... probably in about 4 hours from now.
 

Hockey Playa

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i like leaving my computer running all the time, i like the sound of the computer fan, rather than a real one blowing air on me....probably not so good for my computer though:rolleyes: i have a clock in my room that ticks so annoying!
 

"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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Jeremymichael

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I have a fan on, I like the fact it's my noise, and no external noises can inflitrate my room! (masks external noises)
 

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I have the sound of the waves and birds chirping playing on my stereo. It helps me to sleep and at exactly 07h30, the sound of elephants stomping and running wild will wake me up. I need new sounds to wake me up.
 
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