To the men out there on the prowl for numbers, hats off to you if you can make this approach work. And we all have calculators on our phones.Īfter he showed me the trick I felt the need to share it. All you needed, he assured, was simple math.
What was most interesting was that it didn't require any embarrassing pick-up lines. I was with a friend recently - the kind of guy who is not opposed to telling a girl his shirt is made of boyfriend material - and he brought to my attention an admittedly original way to get a girl's number. Think, "I lost my number, can I have yours?" and "Is your name WiFi, because we definitely have a connection?" There's no denying that throughout the history of men finding inventive ways to get a girl's number, there have been some truly cringe-worthy attempts. I even, regrettably, studied the controversial tactics of pick-up artistry to gain the trust of women I was interested in. I've tried being more calculated, spending as much time as possible getting to know a person before popping the question. I've subscribed to the you-miss-one-hundred-percent-of-the-shots-you-don't-take approach and simply asked for numbers in abundance. I've personally taken a range of approaches to get girls' phone numbers throughout my single years. Unless you change your number, of course, but nobody's done that since middle school. There's no right way to ask someone who knows nothing about you to offer up her most direct line of communication.Įspecially because giving out your number is something you can't take back. The art of getting a stranger's phone number will forever be perplexing.