You do not even have to take his business card or phone number

I would be completely weirded out if a man gave me his business card outside of a strictly business context.

Like... what am I supposed to do with this? Are you a plumber or gardener trying to win me as a new client? Just counter men trying this with something like "Oh, I am not really looking to hire help around the house right now. If you are looking for business that desperately, I recommend advertising online."

Although I agree that a man giving you his number, means he wants you to chase him. I would caution about giving your actual real number to any man. I have a Google voice number I give out, and I also use apps like textfree and textnow. After having to change my number many times over the years due to scrotes abusing that privilege, the only people who get my real number are employers. And please don't comment about how I can just block them. Blocking no longer works with the most determined of scrotes. Because they too can download apps like textfree, and call/text your real number under new numbers every day. Had that happen to me too! Which forced me to have to change my number.

A few years a go I was back in the town I grew up in. By random coincidence, I bumped into an old acquaintance at an event that I hadn't seen in many, many years, He was married when we first met/had known each other, when I had been living in that area. This time, he was divorced, and remarried, to a 2nd wife. There had always been chemistry between us, but I am never interested in married men. We chatted for a bit, and I learned he was remarried. He gave me his card and said 'let's catch up sometime'. It felt SO icky. Moments later, as I left the event, I walked out of the venue, turned the corner, and discarded of the card in the first trash can I saw as I turned the corner!!! I felt dirty and wrong just having it!

Yeah can confirm never doing that again! I did it one time and texted after. 🙄 He asked me for coffee (I know) and flirted with his female friends in front of me hugging on them on the second meeting playing a table top game. He also mentioned the idea of poly on a date and was surprise pickaxhu when I blocked him on everything right after the date. He also would text every 2 days not every day trying to breadcrumb and then after the third date waited 4 days to text but by that time he was blocked. He never called just texted and always was mentioning the female friends he was hanging out with alone in his texts. He was the one to initiate all the convos and dates but still turned out to be a covert narcissistic trashcan and never complimented me on the dates and triangulated me with a woman at the bar lounger we went to (drinks date I know). He pointed her out and said he wanted to hug her in front of my face cause he said she looked like a friend he knew.

Scrotes are getting more creative, I went to a store to buy a slow cooker and the manager wrote his phone number on the receipt.

So my family is pretty well known in our area by our unique last name and the family business in specialties and for what we build on the side. I'm also classically attractive so I stand out in this VERY male-dominated industry.

When these men try to give me their info I just look at it and then say "Oh I'm sure my dad has your info somewhere" or if it's something that I know we wouldn't be interested in I say "Oh thanks but we already have a great relationship with _name-of-competing-company_ and we aren't looking for additional subcontractors." Lets them think 1) I'm not the decision-maker in the family business 2) It'll be my dad who talks to them, not me, and 3) I'm not thinking about them in anything beyond professional terms. If they try to push the issue or make it 'personal' then I just flat-out tell them I'm not interested and I'm sorry that they misconstrued my polite civility.

why these men leave their business card but not their business credit card?