You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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.
ValleyDJing said:Packers 35 Patriots 21.
Deja Vu!!!
Indy came close, and they had some of their star players sidelined.Skel said:Must be crazy. Patriots can't be stopped.
squirrels said:Indy came close, and they had some of their star players sidelined.
It's not that the Patriots are some godly team. They're just a very good team, and the rest of the league (except maybe the Colts) are a bunch of losers who play far below expectation. The NFL sucks this year.
You made your case like a lawyer. Stable job. Good guy. Ready for something real. All true. All irrelevant.
She weighed your points, nodded along, felt nothing — then fell hard for some tattooed bartender with a motorcycle and a gambling problem.
Logic is where attraction goes to die. The "22 Rules" work a level deeper, on the subconscious switches that decide within minutes whether you register as a MAN or as part of the furniture.
Stop presenting evidence. Start flipping switches.
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.
AFC Savior said:and for all you idiots out there, YES winning most of your games by blowouts and having a 16-0 season, DOES make you the best team in NFL history - both statistically, and logically
TyTe`EyEs said:Not if they don't win the superbowl. They won't, by the way.
Your right but if they go 16-0 and lose in the AFC championship game to the colts than you can't say they are the best team in history. I would say a 12-4 team that wins the superbowl is better than a 16-0 team that does not.AFC Savior said:and for all you idiots out there, YES winning most of your games by blowouts and having a 16-0 season, DOES make you the best team in NFL history - both statistically, and logically
lookyoung said:Your right but if they go 16-0 and lose in the AFC championship game to the colts than you can't say they are the best team in history. I would say a 12-4 team that wins the superbowl is better than a 16-0 team that does not.
Btw if I had to pick I would say NE wins it all. But the colts are very dangerous. They could upset them.
You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.
Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.
Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.
Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.
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.