20 Things To Do After You've Been Rejected By A Woman

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So, here you are, down in the dumps after coming home empty handed. No girl to keep you warm tonight. Or, more importantly, keep your Jonathan Taylor Thomas warm (I call my dick “Jonathan Taylor Thomas”). You may have had your chance, but that ambiguously ethnic guy in the Express sweater dashed your dreams and stole her right from under your arm in the dwindling seconds of the fourth quarter.

Having resigned to defeat, you come home to your apartment. You’re still pretty drunk and you don’t want to go to bed yet, so you need to find something—anything—to do to take your mind off of things. Your go-to move, the underpants handshake, is off the table because that’d be just too depressing. And, I mean, your New Year's resolution was to cut down on the jerk/cries anyway. You’ve got to get your mind right ASAP. Luckily, I’m here (no, not like that), providing you with a handy (no, not like that) list of 20 things to do after a night of being rejected.

Matt Rimer is a writer living in Boston. Follow him on Twitter here.

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Read A Book

Hey, this is actually perfect. You’ve been meaning to start that book for a while now. Here’s your chance. You open the cover and dive right in.

"Call me Ishmael."

Oh, okay. Good start. Seems classic and interesting. All right. Let’s see where this delightful story takes us.

"Now call me a dirty fucking slut."

Whoa! Did not see that one coming. What the hell book is this? You look at the front cover. It reads: Moby Two Dicks At The Same Time. Well, I guess that'll teach you to never trust the staff picks at Barnes & Noble every again.

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Do A Crossword Puzzle

"Four Down: Blue-footed sea bird. Five Letters."

B-O-O-B-Y

"Eight Across: Damp. Three Letters."

W-E-T

"Nineteen Down: What that Puerto Rican chick said to you at your cousin’s Halloween party two years ago. Thirty-One Letters."

Y-O-U-C-A-N-P-U-T-I-T-W-H-E-R-E-E-V-E-R-Y-O-U-W-A-N-T-P-A-P-I

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Watch TV

You sit down on your nice comfy couch and turn on the boob tube. I mean, the television. Let’s see. Poke-Her After Dark? Excuse me, Poker After Dark. Shake-weight infomercial? Nope. That won’t work. Antiques Roadshow? Yeah. Harmless, good ol' Antiques Roadshow. A portly, old woman in a moo-moo appears with a cigar store Indian. The appraiser standing beside her has a Joaquin Phoenix lip and one of her breasts is smaller than the other. “How much is it worth?” Ida asks. The appraiser responds, “One dollar to look at. Two dollars to touch it. Five dollars to watch me touch it…” Change the channel before it’s too late.

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Fuck Around On Your Phone

You flip mindlessly through you’re cell. Maybe you could play a game? Tetris sounds good. You start to build up a little pile. The stacks are solid across except for a little crevasse down the middle. Oh, here comes a long, skinny one! All right, now lets just slip that right in here, nice and easy. There we go. Kind of a tight squeeze, but it feels good. Yeah, you like that don’t you? Shit, now all of the blocks exploded.

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Work On Your Novel

You open up Word (or set up your typewriter if you’re a huge tool) and get to work. Just think, about a year from now, after your book is published, the world will bask in the profundity that is your novel. You’ll do the late night talk show crawl and become a national hero. Fast forward three years and you’re deciding between Easton Ellis and David Mamet to serve as the best man at your wedding (obviously you go with Dave).

You pick up your story where you left off. You type, "It was on that very day that Jennifer Carmichael jumped on that old steam locomotive and headed north, away from the constricting grip of that small town—of her father. She felt hot and unbuttoned her shirt. Her boobs were huge and awesome. Like, at least twice as big as that chick from Mad Men. Then the Olsen Twins showed up on the train and took their shirts off too. They all made out and it was totally awesome." Nailed it.

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Write A Letter To Your Future Self

Dear Future Self,

Hey. You Up? Hey, like, maybe you could come over, if you’re not busy or whatever. I just feel like there’s something special between us. Also, what are you wearing?

The Key Is Still Under The Flowerpot,

Your Past Self

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