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.
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Espi said:The guy's had 3 altercations with the law over the last few years...what horrible luck this guy has. If people around him would just behave...
I mean...it's not like he's at ALL responsible for his own behavior.
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.
Danger said:Fatal,
Jeantel TESTIFIED that Trayvon confronted Zimmerman.
End of case.
Eventually, she said she heard an exchange of words — Trayvon asking “why you following me for?” and a “hard-breathing man” responding, “what are you doing around here?” — before hearing noises and Trayvon saying “get off, get off.”
Read more: http://fox17online.com/2013/06/27/key-witness-testifies-on-trayvon-martin-shooting/#ixzz2lGM1XMXt
To be completely honest, so do I.amoka said:The guy just loves the feel of a gun in his hands.
She asks it casually, mid-sip. And you feel the floor open up, because the honest answer is work, gym, and a couple shows you're half-watching.
Women rarely say this out loud, but a man with a life is attractive before he says a word. The guy who spent Saturday deep-sea fishing and came back with photos and a story — he walks in already interesting.
The "22 Rules" pushed me to build a life worth talking about. Turns out the fastest way to be interesting to women is to be interested in your own life first.
We all know why you side with Trayvon. It's the same way across the country save a few on either side. Let it go, the verdict was read. No sense in infiltrating this forum with that garbage again.Fatal Jay said:Dude if your reaching I understand, you can't tell me your still holding to the fact that trayvon fought him first,lol. Even before trayvon, Zimmerman started all the **** first, the evidence is there, he had a past with the police before trayvon, if your too much an idiot to admit he has started it all then so be it, but I don't believe you guys are idiots your just playing dumb for the sake of playing dumb.