Telephone trouble

This guy really wanted my number and then I didn't hear from him for several days. Now this is our conversation. More wasted energy. 

I've been chatting with this guy for a while; he's been very tentative but persistent, so I've been hanging in there. Any time someone asks for my number, I ask them to give me theirs, and I have never had anyone refuse. I don't have the bandwidth to explain to this guy that women have more reasons to be concerned about their number being on the internet than men do. But whatever. He's not worth the aggravation.