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She voluntarily gave you her number . To not respond is inexcusable and will make it awkward when you see each other again.
Simple manners don't seem to matter with too many people .
For a date always better to call than to text. She probably has a hundred text messages and might not even know who you are. Call her, if you get a VM leave a message. If she doesn't call back then forget her, she isn't worth the trouble.
She voluntarily gave you her number . To not respond is inexcusable and will make it awkward when you see each other again.
Simple manners don't seem to matter with too many people .
That's kinda my take too. Maybe she just felt awkward saying "no" to giving out her phone number and just figured she'd take that route, give the number out and then blow him off.
IDK, seems odd to me, but whatever. I figured if I had enough gumption to ask for her number she would have been giving me all of the "interested" signals and the chances of this happening would be less.
If a guy doesn't really feel out the situation right and assumes that she likes him and when in reality she's just being polite is when this stuff can happen, I suppose.
Me personally, I was never a big woman chaser so if I did go after a woman it was because she made it abundantly clear that she was into me.
That's just life nowdays. Getting "the phone number" USED to mean something back when people had landlines.
Now with mobile phones, the phone number doesn't mean anything, its no commitment to talk to you again, or see you again, or that I like you. You don't get the turn-down/rejection letter, because that just invites more conversation, and if you're persistant/argumenative, now you've just morphed into a stalker/creeper that won't take a hint.
You can say that when you've been a woman that has rejected someone. Sadly, I've heard many a story from female friends on how many entitled guys react when they're turned down. It's horrifying.
Just about to say that.
Is she at work, maybe?
Last week I had to politely turned a guy down, after he became too insulted and overreacted when I didn't return his text fast enough, even though I already told him I was going to work.
I said "Sorry, I don't think this will work.' I was being polite. In reality I thought he was being a big insecure baby and should grow up, but I didn't say that.
His reply? "I knew you were shady and stringing me along you ugly ass POS"
hahahaha luckily I'm not easily offended and could quickly see I got out of that bad story just in time!
Still, it would be polite to reply either way when someone asks you, I agree.
You can say that when you've been a woman that has rejected someone. Sadly, I've heard many a story from female friends on how many entitled guys react when they're turned down. It's horrifying.
If anything, us guys should be pointing the finger at other guys as we as males create the climate for these interactions.
For sure, some guys just lash out instead of taking it like a man. I wouldn't blame a woman for being horrified at that.
The OP just says "I got a girl's # on a hike".
I see that differently.
Did he beat it out of her? Did someone else give it to her? I don't know of anyone in my circle of people I've known in my life that would give out a woman's number to man without her consent, I suppose it's possible.
Most likely she gave it to him, it seems like we're splitting hair here.
You can say that when you've been a woman that has rejected someone. Sadly, I've heard many a story from female friends on how many entitled guys react when they're turned down. It's horrifying.
If anything, us guys should be pointing the finger at other guys as we as males create the climate for these interactions.
That may be the case in some situations, but I don't think it's as common as suggested. Should women point fingers at every other woman who has freaked out over a break-up or claimed to be pregnant in order to keep a man's interest? It's a two way street. Some people are simply obnoxious, crazy, and/or creepy. And that is regardless of gender.
I will say that this is definitely common practice these days and it is quite rude. For those few women who did tell me they weren't interested, I responded back that I appreciated their honesty and forthrightness.
I doesn't feel good to be ghosted on and it's pretty inconsiderate.
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