Same Sex Phone #s

So today on campus I ran into this kid I used to smoke cigarettes and chew the fat with between classes at the student union. Seemed like a smart kid for his age, there was another girl who used to chat with us too. Anyhoo. This kid dropped out but now is back. So I just got his phone number sort of as a formality but also as a gesture like, "Hey, my friends are like you."

As I get older, I am doing a lot less deliberate friend-making, and getting a phone number from a dude was comically and mildly awkward. I spend most of my time with my girlfriend and friends in the same program, and rarely "call up the homies" like in the old days.

Consequently, I threw in a lot of "dude" and "man" and "dude man" as I wrote the number down, just to reinforce the steel wall of masculinity that radiates around me at all times.

If I owned a cell-phone, I think the whole operation would have been a lot more slick and nonchalant.

So umm, I haven't posted a topic in a while; this is all I got folks.

Anyone else have this semi-amusing experience, just barely worth mentioning?