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.
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.
Only the ones without jobs.ngl sh.its weird
i mean all the black lives matter and other movements that pop up whenever some group is opressed or whatever
its like citizens in USA have one main aim in life: to protest
Don't forget about the black square virtue signalling keyboard warriors on social mediaOnly the ones without jobs.
Not White supremacists, White Antifa leftists who are currently unemployed and bored from lockdown so they have nothing better to do.People need to turn off CNN. Case in point: My parents thought that the riots in the US were being caused by white supremacists, and neither of them is a leftist.
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.
Because Trump is in power. We had a major protest here in Ontario Canada back June 15, 2000 when we had a crazy conservative government too. The infamous name was Mike Harris and he was like a Trump dividing the province and vilifying the poor. You had people throwing molotov ****tails at the provincial parliament building and wanting an overthrow of the provincial government in a protest/riot in June 15, 2000. An account of this is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Coalition_Against_Poverty . That never happened before, and never happened since after successive liberal governments came into power. Even the current conservative government is not as bad as the past Harris government. When a government is in power by making enemies out of groups of the population then you get riot level protests.ngl sh.its weird
i mean all the black lives matter and other movements that pop up whenever some group is opressed or whatever
its like citizens in USA have one main aim in life: to protest
No its not. I am saying one simple fact. There was no riots here since June 15, 2000 because we don't have harsh governments here like that one in the past. How can you twist that up and say something else? You like governments that cause riots like that?This is such bullshyt. You wanna see poor go to other 3rd world countries.
Almost Everyone in Canada and the US have equal opportunity to make it in life. Its a whining game to the poor and its the lazy azz people that wanna take everybody's work.
Too much Soy in this culture.
When a woman says it, guys hear a confession. A heads-up. A scheduling conflict.
Here's the translation: I don't feel anything. Right now. With you.
Watch what happens when a man triggers actual attraction. The busy career, the recent breakup, the "not in a place to date" — all of it evaporates instantly. The same woman who was guarding her freedom is suddenly free every night.
The "22 Rules" explain why. When the right switches flip, her timeline rearranges itself around you.
you know you are just proving one little point, liberals are not people who behave and respect others, every single time a liberal win the right win respect it and try to work with it, the very time the left lose they start to riot nad force people to agree with they view, they can't respect others and the very democratic way they want others to repect when its then in power, every single time the left lose this happen, and not only in canadaBecause Trump is in power. We had a major protest here in Ontario Canada back June 15, 2000 when we had a crazy conservative government too. The infamous name was Mike Harris and he was like a Trump dividing the province and vilifying the poor. You had people throwing molotov ****tails at the provincial parliament building and wanting an overthrow of the provincial government in a protest/riot in June 15, 2000. An account of this is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Coalition_Against_Poverty . That never happened before, and never happened since after successive liberal governments came into power. Even the current conservative government is not as bad as the past Harris government. When a government is in power by making enemies out of groups of the population then you get riot level protests.
If a Democrat was in power or even a more sane Republican than Trump there is no way the protest would have been at this level.
When people protest a police killing infront the White House and all you can think about is teargassing peaceful protestors so you can do a photo-op with a Bible and threaten to use the military then you know you do not have a normal president like even Bush. In other States you have voter suppression where they close off polling stations and people feel if they can't vote properly without waiting on a 10 hour line-up, or if the politicians don't want to listen but respond by brute force, then you have protests in that scale.
and also because it a nice way to laundry money, I don't trust NGO the same way I don't trust goverments, they are always full of people who are not honest, criminals and only interested in personal advantages over othersAmerica has movements because it has a lot of problems. And as @corrector said, there would be less protesting if the Federal government wasn’t so bad.
Don’t like the protests? Fix the problems they are protesting about. This isn’t rocket science..
Aimless life, too much spare time and looking for some cause to feel like they matter.ngl sh.its weird
i mean all the black lives matter and other movements that pop up whenever some group is opressed or whatever
its like citizens in USA have one main aim in life: to protest
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.
Stfu and deal with it... there might come a time during your autistic lifestyle that you actually find an issue you care passionately about, and when you do, you're going to want somebody to give afngl sh.its weird
i mean all the black lives matter and other movements that pop up whenever some group is opressed or whatever
its like citizens in USA have one main aim in life: to protest
Because the US is the big experiment and determins if that system works and if it works it will become expanded to the whole world.funny how mostly the movements etc. that affect the whole world happen mostly in the US. but when they happen somewhere else, it's like almost nothing (the huge chinese ones being the rare exception, but nothing compared to BLM)...almost as if US doesn't care what's happening outside, but cares a lot when the outside doesn't care what's happening in it
You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.
And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.
Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.
The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.