I don't think anyone has ever asked me for my phone number.
You just have to ask them instead
. I mean, they might not say yes (I think my success rate is somewhere lower than 25 percent, maybe like ten percent). But that's why you just do it a lot of times.
Even with a 1 percent success rate, if you ask 100 people, you eventually get one that says yes. And with those kind of numbers, you just ask people out while shopping for groceries or whatever other boring normal daily tasks you're doing. If it doesn't work, that's fine, you just ask another 100 people.
I've never asked 100 people out in my life either.
Apparently I'm boring.