You meet a girl in a bar on a Saturday night and really hit it off. You talk for a while and think she might be into you, so you bite the bullet and ask for her number. After waiting the mandatory three days (you don’t want to seem too desperate), you call her. She answers and you say, “How are you going, cutie?”
But the voice on the other end is an 80-year-old old man wanting to know who you are and why you’re talking to him like you would talk to a fluffy little kitten. Yep, being given a fake number sucks. More often than not, it’s girls who are guilty of the old fake number trick. So why do we inflict this sort of rejection upon guys?
When girls give guys a fake number, it is because of one of two reasons: either we feel bad about rejecting you in person, or we think you’re an asshole.
Most girls will feel bad about rejecting a guy in person when they ask for our number. We know it’s cruel and the rejection will be delayed until after you spend days thinking of calling, only to realise we’ve given you the number of a Chinese restaurant. But we just feel so damn awkward being like, “Um, no. You can’t have my number.”
So to save yourself the embarrassment of realising you’ve been given a fake number, there are some signs that may mean a girl isn’t interested. If she says she has a boyfriend, has just gotten out of relationship and wants time to herself, or needs to go to the bathroom every time you ‘bump’ into her - she may be trying to let you down lightly. If you’re really keen on a girl, and she gives you her number, repeat the wrong number back to her and see if she corrects you. This way you’ll know straight away whether she’s genuinely interested or not.
But there are some situations where no matter how much girls hint that they’re not interested, guys won’t leave them alone until they have their number. I’d suggest saving The Rejection Line (0406 650 430) in your contacts and giving their number out to any guy who won’t take “NO, GET F#!KED” for an answer. Their voicemails and texts that they think are going to you, are actually posted on the The Rejection Line website. So your phone isn’t spammed with unwanted calls or texts, but you can still laugh over how desperately hilarious their messages are. Who knows, it may even teach them a lesson!
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