Recipient #1: The stand-up bass player in a band at a country line-dancing bar. I struck up a conversation with him and his friends while trying to find someone to teach my friend and me how to do the two-step. These guys ended up being the main band of the night, and later the bass player wowed all of my friends by literally standing on his bass while he played. During the break he and I talked about the his bass tricks, my dancing, the Macarena, and how the band is hoping to move out this way from the Midwest. I told him my friends and I had to leave during their next set and gave him a hug. Before we left though, I initiated the Macarena and soon there were about thirty of us doing the Macarena to a country song. It was epic, and the bassist had to stop playing and put the bass down for a minute because he was laughing so much. I waved goodbye and left him a note on the stage telling him to call me if they ended up relocating. The next morning he texted me to compliment my abilities of starting a Macarena craze mid-song.
Recipient #2: The bartender at a restaurant. I was at dinner with a couple of friends and went to the bar to get us some napkins. I told the bartender that I was taking them, and he feigned shock as I apologized for taking his family heirlooms. As I was about to leave I asked him how I could ever make it up to him and suggested embroidering his initials on napkins for him, to which he immediately replied, "JMB!" I recruited my much more artistic friend to write that monogram on a napkin (she nailed it - if you ever need paper napkins monogramed with a pen, I've got the perfect person); then I turned over the napkin and added my initials, first name, and phone number. I handed him the napkin with his monogram facing him and told him to have a good night. Whether or not he turned it over and saw my information, I don't know.
Moral of the story: Stay in shape. Go give your number to someone just for fun, not because you're expecting a call or to fall in love.
