May I Give You a Ring?

Once I thought it was the most brilliant idea to ask an online aquaintance whom I had met on a Bellsouth message board if we could exchange phone numbers. I sent an email titled, “May I give you a Ring?” and included my T-mobile cell phone number. Several days went by, no response. When I finally ran into her again on a co-blogger's site, I asked, “Did you get my email?”
“Yup.” She replied. “But I deleted it!”
“Why?”
“Because I thought you were going to ask me to marry you!”