Ring me whenever you want to go out.

Saki,,, Just a thought,, I'm changing flights in Doha around 15 April. Can I give you my number in case you want to go out during my stayover there? to be honest, thats not my style.

saki
If a beautiful lady rings me and sak for a date, I will not say no, as I do not have a ego on this issue, go for it, if you want some just call them

Dear Sakineh , So we should just ring you when we want to go out with you . OK, ring - - ring - - - ring - - -Sakineh are you there . . . . ring - - -ring - - - ring- - - -ring- - - - Sakineh are you there . . . .ring - - - ring- - - -ring- - - -ring- - - -- ring - - - - Sakineh pick up the phone . . .ring - - - ring - - - -ring- - - - - -ring- - - - .Boy this is going to be harder than I thought ! . . .

Sakineh

Give me your number and I will ring you and tell you

On a serious note I think that building a good rapport leading to a date via phone calls or texts is how it should be done and when two people are getting on really then it is time for one of them to ask to meet up but it does not always have to be the man who does the asking

We're in the 2000's. Either is "appropriate".

I still for one, prefer the man calling me for a date.

@Shay Ring Ring, Ring Ring.

Neither is more appropriate than another necessarily but one has a historical imperative. Pre-1970 or so it was largely unheard of for a woman to ask a man out and she had to be satisfied with just sitting around waiting for him to call.

Back in those days if she was the one doing the asking she would have stupidly been deemed to be 'easy' which back then was considered to be the worst possible social stigma imaginable so thankfully we live in a bit more enlightened times.

I am delighted when a woman asks me out but I have to admit that it happens so infrequently that I'm more likely to see in the next ice-age before another one plucks up the courage. I imagine that if you are mega-good-looking or somehow magnetic and you like courageous women then it might act a bit like a natural filter.

Despite the theoretical progress made towards this small piece of equality, many women have expressed to me that they prefer to be the one who is asked first anyway as, I expect, they suffer the same fear of rejection as most men do, which is fair enough.

In a way, if the man asks a woman out he is taking responsibility for that risk of rejection and taking the pressure off her. It is nice to be asked and therefore wanted and so in a way he is honoring her by maximising her options and letting her know that he likes her enough to want to spend time with her without her necessarily having to express how she feels about him.

This being the case, I usually do the asking if I am keen on a lady as the old adage is most definitely true - If you don't ask, you don't get. And that pretty much holds true for everything.

Thanks Sakineh, I try...

RUBICON76- yes you are...or may be it depends on a woman..

I always try to be a gentleman with every woman I know because women are the more beautiful, lovely, giving, nurturing, deserving and important gender of our species.