Being Sociable and My Best Phone Number Exchange to Date

Okay just to set the record straight I am taken now, i.e. I am in a relationship, so from now on I’ll be exploring in more ‘intimate’ routines and diving ‘deeper’ into the Game all puns intended. But before I was off the market, I had one of my most sociable nights ever and got one of my best phone number exchanges to date.

I went out to a local club where my friend had a free ticket to a launch night of a new night out. As soon as I arrived I handed my ticket over and low and behold my friend was working so we chatted a little before I walked inside. As I got in I spotted another friend and we chatted near the bar, by this time everyone that I was expecting to turn up already had and our social circle grew. As we chatted I threw negs at my friends, we had banter, I included people into the conversation by saying stuff like “what’s your thoughts on this [insert name here]” also I made sure I was introduced to people that I didn’t know so that everyone was involved by saying stuff like ‘hey [insert name here] don’t be rude introduce me to your friend, I don’t want them to feel left out.’ They then would always introduce me to them, sometimes it was a guy sometimes a girl, I wasn’t bothered I was just trying out new lines that I had learnt before going out that night. After a while we moved into the other room and an old friend from first year bumped into me and said hi, she was with a friend, quirky, tall, fairly pretty, (Lizzy) so I used my line again and she introduced me to Lizzy, but before I could give her my name, she saw someone else that she knew she grabbed Lizzy and walked off. But because I just felt so confident and social probably because of all the talking I’ve done before I just walked up to them and said ‘Hey sorry, I didn’t mean to rude and not introduce myself, but my name is Tim.” I reached out my hand and we shook hands.

I immediately noticed that she dressed differently to all the girls in the room and so I said “I can tell you’re probably an interesting person”.
“Er... am I.”
“Yeah I think so I’m getting a kinda vibe”
And then we fluffed a little, I asked her what year she’s in, what uni she went to and then I have no idea how the following words came out of my mouth, I hadn’t been drinking, but maybe because I was throwing around all that banter before I just felt confident and a little cocky and I said:
‘Hey, have you ever seen Finding Nemo? (she smiled) Do you know who you remind me of? Dory off Finding Nemo!’ and they she just burst out laughing.
‘Oh God!’ she half squirmed half laughed out, "it’s because I have quite a narrow face isn’t it?”
“Yeah sorry about that”
“Nah it’s cool I used to get the mick taken out of me when I was at school because I looked like Dory”.
“Me Omg, not cool, sorry for bring out the bad memories.”
“Don’t worry about it”.
Then I immediately cut the thread and moved on, I asked her what she studied. “English Lit and Creative Writing.”

Soon after her friend came back and they went to the dance floor and I went off to find my friends. They were sat down at a booth so I join them. Then not long after, Lizzy and her friend came back and they joined us, apparently my friends kinda new them as well. What luck! Then as time went on people went up to dance and got drinks and went to the toilet I just became Lizzy and I again. So I remembered that she studied English Lit and Creative Writing and having an interesting in literature and poems myself I was able to have a really nice and easy conversation with her about her favourite authors and my favourite authors and our GCSE English anthology and then I recommended her some books.
Then out of the blue she said, do you know what, you should had me on Facebook, and then I go, “Nah, No thanks.”
“Why?” she asks.
“I study communication studies, if you add someone on facebook and you barely know them you might as well not add them because you won’t be able to keep in contact enough, there’s no point.”
“Fair enough.” She replied. [Pause]
Me:“How about you give me your number?”
“You got a pen?
“Hahaha!, I can tell you’re old school because you asked for a pen instead of taking out your phone, I like that congratulate yourself.”
Then we walk to the bar, I ask a bartender to give me a pen, I take a napkin (thank goodness that they’re white) I rip the napkin in half and hand her half, she writes her details down and her name, and I say “Draw a picture of yourself, so I remember what you look like” Then she draws a face and a fish and draws an arrow pointing to the fish writing the word “Dory”. She hands me over the pen and I write down my Name and Number. Then we swap napkins, fair is fair. I know usually you’re supposed to be all cool when you get a phone number but as soon as it was over, I screamed “THAT WAS THE COOLEST PHONE NUMBER EXCHANGE EVER!” and she was like “Yeah totally!”

I think it’s honestly incredible what you can get away with if you say something in a confident and nonthreatening way. It’s also cool to see that all this stuff is slowly being ingrained into me and I’m becoming the confident sociable person that I set out to be when I started this journey.

Whenever anyone wants a wingman, give me a shout.
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