Tenets of Leykis

Cell Phones and Text Mesages During a Date

If a girl answers a cell-phone or checks their text messages in the middle of dinner or date, get up and leave.

Your Response:

• "Oh, you look busy. I'm going to get out of here."
• "While you're so busy, I'm just going to move on dear. Got to get out of here"

Why? The person on the other end is the guy she's going to have sex with when she finally gets rid of you. If she says it's her kids, you're already violating the no "Single Mothers" rule. Her work? It's a date and it's late, if her work is more important then you, then it will always be more important. If she says its her friends, all her friends know she's out. That's just how women work. She can just turn the phone off and wait to gossip until the date is over.

You on the other hand, should carry a cell phone. Avoid answering it during dinner, by have your buddies make a call or two. Ignoring her for "work" makes you look important and in control. She will try to test you and get your attention on her. Sex might be used to get your attention.

If a female answers a cell-phone call in the middle of dinner, Leykis advises that the male should immediately get up and leave. He justifies this as follows:

• It is possible that the caller is another man who she is going to have sex with when she finishes her date.
• If the caller is one of her children, the man is already violating Leykis' 'no-single-mothers' rule.
• If the call is work related, and is deemed more important than the man now, it will always be more important.
• If the caller is a friend, Leykis claims, the woman is "most certainly lying because all her friends know she's out."

Leykis believes if a woman deems a 101 student unimportant enough that she feels comfortable answering her cell phone during the date, she is not sufficiently interested in having sex with the man. Leaving immediately, he advises, would save the man a good deal of money. In contrast, he believes the man should always carry a cell phone on dates. Leykis' logic follows that a man ignoring a woman for a work related call will actually make him look more "important and in control", thereby drastically reducing the "waiting period" women observe before having sex with men they're dating. Leykis claims that a woman will try to test a man, trying to focus his attention on her and, he believes, there's a good chance that sex might be part of the attention-getting hunt.