His phone number not in service?!
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| Fri, 12-15-2006 - 11:44am |
And here I was thinking I was getting the hang of this OLD stuff.
This guy has been e-mailing me regularly but briefly for about 10 days. It's brief, not very informative e-mails mostly, and I haven't felt a real connection. However, he hasn't done anything to turn me off, he's not bad looking, knows how to spell, etc. I mustn't be too picky, right?
Anyway, he asks to meet and I say, "let's talk on the phone first, why don't you give me your phone number and a good time to call and I will call you." (I wanted to do the calling myself because I didn't want him to call when I was with other people.)
He gives me a number and says to call him in the morning. This was Wednesday. I was swamped with work all day yesterday, so I just went to call him now. (Notice that I am at work, making time to call him in the middle of my morning, being careful that co-workers aren't going to be around to over-hear, etc.) And the number he typed on his e-mail doesn't work!
I suppose he may have accidentally mistyped it, but how many people mistype their own phone numbers? And can't he proofread?
All I can think of is either he is prematurely senile or he really didn't want to give me a phone number (married, perhaps?) and didn't want to admit it, so he made one up.
In any case, I wasn't all that eager to meet him, so no big loss.
I just can't get over that he specified to call him in the morning and said he was looking forward to hearing from me when he was giving me a number that didn't work!!
Elsa

I did email to say I'd called the number and it said it was out of service. Maybe he will e-mail me back apologizing, but I have a feeling he won't.
I think one thing I'd been responding to in his e-mails that made me uneasy was lack of real effort. Sort of like he was chatting on the surface, not really caring to get to know me or to make himself known. He may have not felt comfortable about sharing his phone number. Or he may have got all his pleasure out of getting someone to write back to him and be willing to meet. Meeting itself (even on the phone) was too big a deal.
Anyway, I will just forget about him.