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With an apparent attitude of casual indifference, Dude #2 answers, "Uh...sure. We've been broken up for six months now."
In the moment following, Dude #1 gets a text from the girl, right as Dude #2 adds, "...But I don't think she'd be interested in a guy like you..."
Interrupting Dude #2's comments, Dude #1 proceeds to begin reading her text messages, which are coming rapid fire.
"She says she'd love to go out with me..." "She says she's been waiting for me to ask her out for over a year now..." "And hey...she just sent a video!"
Dude #2, feigning mild excitement, says, "Oh really? Let me see that...", right as the girl can be overheard through the mobile phone's speaker saying, "I'm really excited about our date...".
Dude #1 hands Dude #2 the phone, who proceeds to hurl it with a loud grunt as far into the sky as he can. He then swipes his hair back and sits back as if nothing happened.
The factors that make this commercial riotously hilarious are manifold.
For starters, Dude #2 is the one who comes off as being more "image conscious"...even as he's the one who ends up losing his cool in the end.
Also, there's the subtle reference to Dude #2 having been broken up with the girl for six months, even as the girl mentions that she's been waiting for Dude #1 to ask her out for "over a year now".
Ouch.
And, of course, there's the added bonus of the impossibly surreal pace at which the whole train of events occurs. There's just no way that everything in the commercial could all happen in under 20 seconds, at least not in the real world.
But as humorous as the ad is, big part of its overall appeal is that almost all of us can really relate to Dude #2.
I mean, imagine you're dating a girl you really like, but she breaks up with you.
If left to our own devices most of us in that situation would probably dread her getting together with our best friend (or worse, maybe even our worst enemy), probably within the next 24-48 hours, no less.
Or let's say we're interested in a certain girl, who is clearly single. We take two full weeks to get up the nerve to ask her out, and just then some other guy starts going out with her.
It's like we just know that sort of thing is going to happen.
And the weird part? What we're dreading the most actually comes to pass a freakishly high percentage of the time, or at least it seems.
What's up with that?
Here's what I think is going on...and there's actually a simple explanation.
Essentially, we as human beings are very good at thinking through the logical sequence of events that could potentially happen.
In the case of a girl who breaks up with us, for example, it makes perfect sense that she wouldn't stay single for long, as sharp as she is.
It ALSO makes sense that she'd end up with someone else from within your social circle, right?
And the girl you waste so much time getting around to asking out? It makes perfect sense that another guy would be quicker on the draw than you are.
You end up being dead right about what you dread happening because your thoughts are focused on what you correctly perceive to be a highly probable outcome.
But here's where the rubber meets the road...and I hope you're sitting down for this.
The reason it seems like all that you dread with regard to other guys and the women you like comes true so often is because you've got a poisonous mindset.
When you believe having something good happen with a woman you like would be "too good to be true", you start projecting success on someone else rather than yourself.
In effect, you fall into the vicious trap of believing that all sorts of good things that can theoretically happen with truly amazing women can only happen to other guys. That kind of success isn't what YOU can expect.
BUT...were you only to see yourself as equally worthy as someone else, you'd probably find that you're just as good at predicting positive outcomes for YOURSELF.
After all, the same "logic" applies. It makes just as much sense that the girl you like would be interested in you as she would be in someone else...maybe even MORE.
The ONLY difference between you and "some other guy" is that you miraculously experience life from your own eyes rather than his. Your being is contained inside YOUR body, not his.
To everyone else, therefore, YOU are "some other guy".
So then, the question comes down to this: Can you start claiming some of that perfectly logical success for yourself rather than "dreading it away" to others?
The great news is that this is a decision you can make TODAY. You can set this mindset into motion as easily as you flip a switch, no "habit modification" necessary.
But you do have to BELIEVE that what I'm saying is logical, and move forward accordingly. From there, you can get ready to start experiencing the kind of success with women that you've previously only thought was for other guys.
What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below!