I need help with this one, as I can't work it out.
I was, as so many of my stories begin, in the pub on friday night when a few of my mates came in, along with a guy and a girl I didn't know. Maybe it was the beer, but the first thing I saw was this tremendous pair of blue eyes, but it seemed obvious she was with the new guy so I kept my distance (as if I'd have been much more forward otherwise, really). We had a few game of snooker and a few pints and as so often happens, ended up back at my friend's house having a party. I was having one of those drunken discussions with the guy I didn't know and soon somehow managed to sniff out that they weren't an item, and before I knew it found myself chatting to this girl with the fantastic eyes in the kitchen. She asked if I wanted a beer, and when she took the lid off with her teeth I felt a tingling that I haven't felt for a while.

Anyway. It has been said in the past that I can be quite amusing while drunk, but despite this I am still mostly useless with the ladies, and so we chatted and she laughed but I still didn't make any sort of move. Then, she turned to me while talking to the others in the living room and said "What's your number?"

I think I probably mumbled a bit as I struggled for my phone, explaining that I didn't know my number but I had it stored, and she watched for a few seconds as I rifled through my address book. Then came the curve ball.

"I didn't mean your phone number".

I've been trying to work it out for 5 days now. I think I said something like "Oh. Erm, 17 then" and she laughed. The only thing I can possibly think is that it may have been a drunken attempt to ascertain my age, as I look about 10 years younger than I actually am. Apart from that, I'm stumped. And a bit cheesed off, she was lovely.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 16:04, 20 replies)

Maybe...
..she's just barking mad mate. Best avoided maybe?
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Wed 16 Dec 2009, 16:08, closed)

Maybe.
Seems my nutcase attracting pheromone may have worked again.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 16:14, closed)

....Anytime...and I MEAN anytime a member of the opposite* sex asks "whats your number?"
the only reply is 69!

*Or same, I am a modern man after all.
( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 16:18, closed)

That is a
proposal of marriage round these parts, though.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 16:22, closed)

This
.
( Funkenschlag still likes dogs more than cats, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 16:31, closed)

What other "number" could she mean?
she wasnt cockney was she? "WHATS YER NUMBAH SUNSHINE?"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 16:39, closed)

I know!
It confused the hell out of me. My mate thinks she got embarrased when she realised folk were listening, but my age theory is starting to sound more and more plausible.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 17:22, closed)

Maybe it was numerology?
Im a 3 , 7 and 10

hm just checked and apparently now I'm a 5
pfft
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 20:56, closed)

I'd probably
turn out to be a fraction.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 4:09, closed)

Dahn sarf
"Whats your number?" usually means "What does one do for a living?". At least, it did in the regions I have inhabited.
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 17:48, closed)

She had a broad Lanarkshire accent though,
it was more of a "Whits yer nummer?"
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 4:08, closed)

Maybe it's a cultural test?
In which case, the correct response is "I am not a number, I am a free man!"
( Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 18:16, closed)

I will respond
by gassing her through her letterbox and whisking her off to a strange new life where massive balls will pursue her should she attempt to escape
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 4:06, closed)

Sorry but....
She was wondering if you were interested as she was,but you made no move...
(LittleRock is planning her next meal, Wed 16 Dec 2009, 20:45, closed)

I constitute
instantly lunging for my phone as a move. Besides, plenty time to make up for it :)
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 4:04, closed)

She was Spanish and mumbling.
It was Su Nombre (your name) not your number. Simple mistake.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Wed 16 Dec 2009, 21:57, closed)

Or maybe it was "El Nombre"
the famous counting bandido mouse.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 4:06, closed)

Maybe... just maybe...
she was asking how many people you'd slept with. Your number. Y'know. That number.
(cypherspace is not a toaster, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 4:26, closed)

I assumed
this was the case.
( SigmaX0 Dear Die Hard. You rock!, Thu 17 Dec 2009, 9:15, closed)

Call me a bluff old traditionalist...

But didn't it occur to you to say:

"I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean. If you don't mean my phone number, What number are you referring to?"

Then she could have explained, and you would have spared yourself 5 days of frustration.

Carpe diem and all that.

But what do I know?
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 17 Dec 2009, 10:51, closed)