True. But try getting service for anything else without giving it out. That horse is out of the barn and down the lane.
Yes, but in a case like this, it's not going to screw anything up if you give them a fake number. In one of his books, George Hayduke divulges Richard Nixon's number so you can use it for just such occasions.
I've never claimed any great expertise beyond being "a bit more computer literate than average." Yet I somehow seem to have become the guy a lot of friends and acquaintances come to with computer problems. It took me a long time before I was no longer surprised at how impressed people are by my expertise when I'm not really doing anything except not being scared of the daggone thing. Combine that with being too nice to say no, and I get a lot of requests.
I've never had any offers of sex, but I've been given a dobro, a lawnmower, a variety of CDs, a pan of toe-curlingly delicious lasagna, a cordless phone, a gutter-cleaning job, and a smorgasbord of computer parts.
I've only cut one person off cold. "You really need to learn some of this yourself," I told him one day. "I don't need to," he said. "I have you." No he didn't. Not after that.
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Yes, but in a case like this, it's not going to screw anything up if you give them a fake number. In one of his books, George Hayduke divulges Richard Nixon's number so you can use it for just such occasions.
I've never had any offers of sex, but I've been given a dobro, a lawnmower, a variety of CDs, a pan of toe-curlingly delicious lasagna, a cordless phone, a gutter-cleaning job, and a smorgasbord of computer parts.
I've only cut one person off cold. "You really need to learn some of this yourself," I told him one day. "I don't need to," he said. "I have you." No he didn't. Not after that.