I wish I could type this and pretend it was all hypothetical...

[cynicalsnark]

QUESTION: Okay so there's this friend of mine I've worked with the past few weeks at my temp job, and he's nice and everything blah blah blah, but just as a friend. So my work period is ending tomorrow and he says that he's gonna miss me and asks for my phone number to text sometimes, and I'm just like "ok w/e".

So now my friends are convinced that he likes me and are trying to convince of such. And even though I think that asking for someone's number is normal or w/e, I'm kinda scared of what I should do if he does ask me out.

My friends are all, "Oh you're just so picky go out with him" which *I* think is really dumb because a) It'll lead him on when I know that this doesn't have a chance of going anywhere, b) Just because my friends are desperate to be with guys all the time doesn't mean *I* am, and the most important bit, c) I don't like him that way. I've had this ongoing problem where dudes I'm just friends with end up liking me, and I never know how to let them down gently while staying friends with them. It's so dumb.

So, Dear Abby, f-list, if he does ask me out, how do I say no, without coming off looking like a jerk or something?