I hate asking for advice, but I know the community well enough to know that some of you guys are clever fuckers.

I met a girl at a party, isolated, talked to her briefly before leaving (~30 minutes). We got along like a house on fire. I felt that she was worth my time so we exchanged numbers. I made it clear that I wanted to date her, and she was fine with it. Overall I'm happy with my performance and that's why I'm not going into detail.

The next day around 7pm, I decide to text her. I reference some of the funny moments of the night prior (you know, callback humor) while asking her to contribute detail (we were both drinking). In my experience, this is the best way to play text game the day after. It reminds the target that you are the cause of their good time (non-pretentiously) and allows you to drop any staircase wit (look it up). The fact that you're asking to contribute detail serves as a root. It is solid.

..But I didn't get the desired effect. She was not engaging the conversation. She'd give me short phrases and one word answers. This girl is a fiction screenwriter, so I was baffled. Admittedly, I haven't texted her before, but a lack of enthusiasm is never a good sign. So I decided to bust her balls a little to see if I could spark something. I, in obvious form, jokingly blamed her for being the catalyst of one of our more interesting conversations. All I got was, 'my bad.' So I told her that it was adorable that she was so willing to apologize for nothing. No answer.

I stopped texting her and did not text her today. Doing so would be too eager. Midday tomorrow I want to re-initiate conversation with something awesome, and I've decided to see if any of you could recommend some gold. The following is my criteria for what I would consider a great text opener for this specific situation:

-It cannot be overly sexual (ex. If I told you you had a hot body.. would you hold it against me?). This girl is pretty timid, and I feel like she would be sexually intimidated easily. I'm likely going to be deep into comfort phase before I even mention sex.

-It cannot be obviously canned (ex. Aliens are coming to abduct all the sexy ass people! You will be safe, I'm just texting to say goodbye). Girl's smart and will likely catch on to the non-originality. If she was to google a message like the one above, I'd be screwed.

-It cannot contradict with the fact that there's going to be a hurricane tomorrow and I'll likely be stuck in the house all day (ex. I just saw your twin at the university).

-It should probably be witty. I find that humor is the best way at eliciting enthusiasm. That being said, a witty text is not necessary, I just want to reignite her enthusiasm.

-It should be rooted. Not rooting my opener could easily lead to her thinking that I'm texting her something witty just to impress her. I'd rather not DLV myself. If you've got an opener that would meet the rest of the criteria but not this one, post it anyway. I'm sure I could root it.

So I'm pretty much asking the impossible with all these specific rules. It seems to me that the answer to my problem is to find a situationally relevant hurricane quip and hope that she bites. Finally, I'm fairly well versed in all the text message example posts going around. Feel free to recommend a line anyway, but I've probably considered it.

P.S. I intend on posting my comprehensive thoughts on how to best utilize text game once I field test a few more things. This situation (A chick who doesn't seem enthused when I text her) is new for me, so working out all the contingencies are key before I work on any sort of guide.

Stay frosty,

[Dash]

you're being needy, what you're asking for is impossible as needy people behave in a needy manner, and doing what you want right now comes out of a needy place

if she's turned off cause you're needy, then trying to ''game'' her clearly is a bad idea, more witty one liners and ploys at seeking her approval only reveal desperation, it would be better to ease off the trying super hard to qualify for her and get her approval, and if she isn't turned off and was just in a bad mood when you texted her, then once again, not being needy is the solution here, you can just let her come to you if she's that interested, or give some time before you contact her again and don't be so eager to please if she is being gay, just read your own texts back and try to see your own approval seeking, she is being boring, instead of taking that que and letting her be that way, cutting it short and losing interest your self and moving on to new girls, you just proceed to plow for her attention and approval, rewarding the bad behavior cause you need to get her and don't have better options going for you

you should meet other girls and have more options in your life, the day this girl is just another girl, is the day that you won't care about this

Really? after 30 minutes?
Anyway lets say (even though she was drunk) she is fine with it, wouldn't the next move be inviting her out to a hang out/ Date or something?
Instead of looking for witty texts too seek her approval and undivided attention? seeing you two had such a blast of a time, like you said "Like a house on fire".
If that's the case then a simple "Hey, I've been planning to go check that new sushi joint, pizzeria, pub, coffee shop etc.. and you're coming along missy" would've been enough right?

Im going to be honest my dude, going by her short emotionless responses, it's pretty clear THIS GIRL ISN'T AS INTERESTED as you said she was at the party. And trying to build attraction and interest over the fone with a girl you've only seen and conversed with for half an hour? that's a tough ask.

Right now you're just that needy dude to her, who keeps texting stuff.
Like Pumpington said, go get more options in your life. If you got more girls to text and choose from you won't be thinking bout one girl so much.

D.P

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Thanks for the responses, guys. Re-reading my post and then reading your responses, I agree on your point of view. From what you knew about the situation, I think your advice was solid. It sure did seem like I was desperately trying to win her over. Wasn't the case. I was merely trying to see if I could determine whether or not she was an emotionless texter or was truly not interested.

I eventually gave up on that and decided to just ignore her bad texting and ask her out. I got a yes and we'll be grabbing a coffee on Monday.

Boom! I was late to read this thread...but yes just ask her out! You said you wanted to date, cut the texting non-sense.

Let us know how it went.

Chicks don't like wasting time over text (not all obviously) especially when they know you were interested and this conversation should really be happening in person.

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