It's happened to me multiple times before, but I can never seem to respond to it correctly. Should I treat it like a shit test?

If she replies, assume attraction?

I seem to be lost, even after getting the rare number.

Depends on how you're getting the number honestly.

When I was starting out what I used to do a lot was to say we should do x! (insert club to hit, movie to watch, place to eat, etc for x). If the girl(s) are like "yeah!" or something, I would tell them to text me when they wanna go. Here either one of two things happens:

1) She's not interested, and is just like "yeah of course!" and you just play along and move on with the conversation.

2) She is interested and says something along the lines of "Yeah, but I don't have your number." At which point you tell her that you guys should fix that and give her your number and tell her to text you her name.

I bolded that part because in general you can use that and it'll weed out the girls that are going to flake, because only the ones that are genuinely interested will text you their name. And it'll also save you the trouble of having to deal with rejection.

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