My new record

[MagicBalls]

I'm still in the number close stage (hence my nickname), but I nevertheless set a new record tonight.

I hear my phone ring, except it's not my phone. It's in the next room. I hear chatter in the next room about the ringtone, and I go, hey, I have the same ringtone!

D- What?
Me- I have the same ringtone, look come over here, check it out.
[She walks into the room, and it's the first time I see her face. She approaches, with a smile.]
Me- I have the same ringtone, I'm not lying, look, call me.
D- What's the number?
Me-xxx-xxx-xxxx
[She calls. We laugh about it. She leaves the room, and I went ahead and put the number in my phone book as "Girl". ]

From the moment I saw her to the moment I started giving her my digits was probably no more than 5 seconds.

It's interesting, because I was reading earlier that day that women do things in a way that they can back out of it. I had this fresh in my mind, when several hours later, I get a text message: "Who's this." I knew the game she was playing, so I responded, "This is the phone company. You have exceeded your gossip minutes." LOL so it just goes on from there, and eventually she calls. Haven't heard a tender 18-year old voice late at night on the phone for many, many years... it brought flashbacks of late night talks with former girlfriends when I was young, and it was so easy to get pulled in, but I made sure that I maintained my frame.

I think I'm making progress.

[holyskeleton]

"This is the phone company. You have exceeded your gossip minutes."

bravo!

congrats on your progress. oh and that phone number technique is just perfect.

[MagicBalls]

congrats on your progress. oh and that phone number technique is just perfect.

Thanks! lol Yeah, I'm particularly proud of that response because it combined my improv training with learning to maintain your own frame.

[Westfall]

Excellent. I remember when I first started, I couldn't #-close at all, but when I started getting emails, and then some #-closes. Now I can pretty much get #-closes very easily. Still no f-closes, but I'm working on that.

Congrats.