Tips to get him to call you

It finally happens! You’re at a bar and you stumble upon a nice, attractive and single fellow. The flirting leads to the number exchange and while he’s imputing your digits you cross your fingers hoping, just hoping, that he gives you the next day call. Surprisingly enough he makes contact, but not in the form you expected. Much to your misfortune your guy is a texter, who would rather tediously punch in ‘Sup. How’s it goin’ than vocally converse.

Now, you may be wondering why texting is such bad thing. It saves a ton of time by letting you get straight to the point and what’s wrong with being high-tech? Well, everything. Texting is a cop-out, a way for guys to escape the awkwardness and jitters that come along with sober conversations. Some men have even been known to have full-on relationships based on the letter punch in.

So if you have met a texter that seems to have potential, but just can’t get past his digital habit, here are some tips to get him to call.

He texts, you call.
You receive a message that says: Hey. What are you doing? You know he must be by his phone if he just punched this in. Call him. Odds are that he won’t pick up, but he will at least get the message that you like to use the phone for its original purpose. And if he texts you back after the phone call, you know it’s time to delete him from your contacts.

Emphasize words like “talking” in your messages to him.
So the virtual conversation is coming to a close. He texts: Talk to ya later. Now your usual response to this phrase would be, Yeah, talk to ya soon. But this implies that texting is talking. It’s not. Instead write something like, Yeah, let’s chat later, which implies that actual talking has yet to occur (but you want it to).