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Comment author: [deleted] 29 April 2013 12:19:02PM 0 points [-]

Or “here's my phone number, if you ring me I'll save yours”.

Comment author: Document 29 April 2013 04:42:58PM 1 point [-]

Bad idea; that carries the subtext of "I won't let you get away with giving me a fake number". (See for example comment thread 17 here.)

Comment author: [deleted] 29 April 2013 05:34:17PM 0 points [-]

They can still say, "I don't have my phone with me at the moment." ;-)

(And as I mentioned elsethread, these days I only ever ask for phone numbers in situations where I can be reasonably sure that they are OK with giving me theirs.)

Comment author: Document 29 April 2013 05:37:51PM 4 points [-]

They can still say, "I don't have my phone with me at the moment." ;-)

Only better in the unlikely event that the other party will take it at face value and believe them; and that the other party hasn't previously caught a glimpse of their phone at any point.