As I think I've said on here, I'm working not to score digits. Of course, the question is: when are you getting a number because the person is a good contact and when is it flirtatious? It's especially hard to know in cases where it could be both.
Case in point: I scored digits yesterday that any young man would be very happy to get. I've been doing some work with another office a lot lately and the young woman I interface with is easy on the eye... to say the least about the most. She is also well travelled and well read. Compelling mix, no?
This weekend, on a lark, I friended her on Facebook. I figured we talk on the phone about once a week, anyway, so it made sense. I included a very professional note with the request: your office has been great, love your boss, thanks for all the help. Done. Nothing flirtatious about it.
I wasn't surprised that she wrote me back with her friend approval. She's very politic like that. I was surprised that she wrote me back and said it was great to hear from me because she'd like to hang out. She couched it in the idea that she thought I would have some good advice and contacts for her (I am appreciably older than she is and have been doing this work longer), but, still... she's a cute girl telling an older single guy that they should get together. It doesn't have to mean anything, but it's not exactly meaningless.
Of course I agreed. I gave her my cell phone number and she replied with hers. Bam. I have digits.
This won't amount to anything. I won't try and so it won't. Still, I did implicitly ask for her number by giving her mine. So it feels like a fail on the no-digits-quest. You be the judge. Phone numbers themselves are innocent, of course, but as that New York Magazine piece I posted yesterday attests: they are little portals to temptation.
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