[YoungBlood]

I discovered this on accident. I was jogging at some park nearby when I saw a cute girl walking my way. I approached her right away asking her where the nearest fast food place was. We talked for a bit and I felt like I couldn't take it any further without going silent. So, I reached into my pocket to grab my phone but it wasn't there. I left it in my car.

I though, "damn, wtf do I do now?" Then it hit me. I'll just put my number in her phone so she can text me later on. I told her that i forgot my phone and to put my number in her's. I told her to send me a text so I can know her number and she said ok. I finished my jog, went to my car, checked my phone, and didn't receive a text from a new number.

About an hour later, I receive a text saying, "hey its _____ from the park."

fuck yeah.

What makes this so great is that you know where you stand with a girl prior to putting any sort of significant effort on her. if she does text back, then she has initiated some type of small investment in you. if she doesn't, you were probably not going to go far with her anyway without a significant amount of effort on your part. now that i think about it, this is probably reserved for the guys who are lazy and are screening for the horniest of hoes, lol.

so far i've only done this 4 times and i can already see the cons (for instance, persistence is key most of the time and you can't do that without her phone number) but this is something i felt like you guys could take a shot at and probably perfect.

[germanico]

I used to do that. (At the time im not even getting their numbers, its all or nothing)

If she texts or calls, you know that she is hooked, and all you have to do is not fuck up.

[tylerdurden1993]

quite a good idea in theory as it shows that she values you quite highly as she initiates the text conversation, also shows she actually wants a conversation rather than just answering questions from orbiters.

[Tuthmosis]

I don't fuck around with that. If I don't have my phone, I just call mine with hers and grab the number off the missed-calls list. All it takes is one girl who was interested, but forgets to text, meets a guy before she gets around to it, or is little too shy to text and this "test" becomes not worth it.

Never yield control of the interaction to her--especially when she's got nothing to lose by not talking to you.

[gringochileno]

(08-14-2013 06:16 PM)Tuthmosis Wrote:  

I don't fuck around with that. If I don't have my phone, I just call mine with hers and grab the number off the missed-calls list. All it takes is one girl who was interested, but forgets to text, meets a guy before she gets around to it, or is little too shy to text and this "test" becomes not worth it.

Never yield control of the interaction to her--especially when she's got nothing to lose by not talking to you.

I think Tuth gets it right. It's a good-sounding concept, but you need to understand the way women make decisions. She took an hour to text you back--there are a lot of things that could have happened in that hour to make her not respond. Her interest level could decline randomly, she might talk to a cockblocking girlfriend who tells her not to text because the way you met her was "creepy," something might suddenly come up that makes her forget to text you (and then she feels awkward when she remembers a few days later), she might be shy, a California condor might come careening out of the sky and snatch her phone deleting her contacts. You're putting the possibility of ever having any contact with the girl into the hands of her hamster and countless external factors, none of which you have control over.

Making the girl invest in the interaction is great, but not at the expense of potentially losing your line of communication. A couple of better ways are the "yes ladder" that Roosh explains in Day Bang, or having her do little favors for you like "picking up a 6-pack along the way" when she comes over for dinner.

Bottom line is that a "test" is only effective to the extent that it screens out uninterested girls without eliminating interested girls. This move has too high of a potential to cause interested girls to flake to be advisable.

[horn]

I just text my phone from hers.

[BlurredLines]

If you do text your phone from hers, i've had a good reaction to putting in a really OTT really long silly text from her to my phone that you make a big deal of so she reads it over your shoulder and ideally gets her embarrassed and laughing. And hopefully trying to grab her phone back off you in a playful way..