Girl gave me her business card

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Not strange at all, it's called being connected. And in the NT business world it's a very important thing. Who you know who knows you and who calls whom when a job that they can do comes up.

I see. I would've thought "why do I need to know her work number? I'll never need it." No wonder why I have no networking skills.

OP, I guess it's just "a business card" then. Maybe all your other colleagues also got her cards.

I wish I could have asked this same question several years ago (possibly 15 years, maybe more). I needed a root canal, but my regular dentist (who's my cousin's wife) doesn't do that, so she told me she'd call in a surgeon who specialized in that and gave me an appointment at the clinic for the next saturday, I believe. The clinic was normally closed that day, but her assistant would come to open it so I could have the surgery performed on my tooth. I arrived a bit early and while I was waiting, a blonde girl about my age carrying a suitcase showed up. A while later, my dentist's assistant arrived, and as we both approached the door, the girl asked me if I was the patient on whom she had to perform surgery (I had already suspected she was the surgeon). During the surgery, we were chatting about several things (among other things, her brother apparently had studied the same career as I did), and I complimented her, saying "well, not just anyone would spend so long working on someone else's mouth" to which she answered "well, thanks, most people don't appreciate it", and then she told me upon finishing "after this, you'll have to buy me dinner", and afterwards gave me her business card. I didn't know if she meant it seriously or was only joking. After I got out I waited a few minutes in front of the building to see if she was coming out or what, then I left. The next time I went by the clinic, my cousin's wife told me "I hear you got a girlfriend". "Huh? Shoudn't I have heard it if that was the case?" I honestly had no clue (and still haven't) whether she had been flirting with me or not... I still have that business card in my archive, BTW.

You wouldn't take a girl trying to add you on LinkedIn the wrong way. Context is everything. This is just the offline version.

Generally if I'm fluttering around the office showing people attention it's because I'm bored and I wish to find distractions from my work, not because I'm interested in them.

You're missing some background info there, what did you talk about?

We actually just spoke about her name. I asked her what her name was and she told me. Then as she was leaving I said "Bye [her name]" and she kind of laughed and then thanked me for saying it properly. She said that people usually say it some other way. Then I asked her if there was one "a" in her name or two. She spelled it for me and then said "Wait, let me get you something" and takes out her business card and gives it to me. Which happens to have her name on it.

me: hallo I'm phoning you because you gave me your business card.
her: oh is there something you wanted to talk about?
me: no I'm not sure
her: oh ok then, chat to you later
me: ok bye
her: bye

thats pretty much how I imagine I deal with real time flirting.

It's called networking. If she wanted a more personal relationship of any level, she would have given her cell phone number.

Somehow I'd think she was at least flattered. I'm an optimist so I say it's an invitation of sorts, but wether or not it's appropriate to call her at work... perhaps talk to her again and get her home phone. The conversation went well and she laughed, must be a good thing.

That's another reason I give people my business card, so that they can spell my name right. It annoys me when people spell Alison with 2 lls (Allison) Plus if they spell it wrong then they get my email address wrong.

As other people have said, perhaps she wants to do business? Or it was an easy way to show you how her name was spelled.

I recently ran into the trouble of asking someone's contact information for business reasons, in the end I had to specifically ask for her organizational e-mail to avoid misinterpretations.