Ok trp,

I work in a hardware store. I work in the isle with the power tools. Last week this absolute 10 came in and was hanging around in my isle for a good 5 minutes on her cell talk to a colleague of hers, when she was done she came up and asked me if she could have some advice. I jokingly responded with "life advice or hardware?" Got a giggle out of her and she said can it be both and I said something along the lines of "yer, this hardware shit is easy, but I can give good life advice cause I've got my shit together" sarcastically. More giggles, full eye contact blah blah blah I could tell I had her interest. She asked me some shit about another section of the store (this is a good sign I thought, why come to the guy with the chainsaws to ask about plastering). We walked around the store a bit I pressed her for information and we ended up having a fairly lengthy chat about goals and life and attitudes and lots of grown up shit. Ended up playing guess my age, she over shot mine by a few years and was impressed that I was so younge and already a property owner. I guessed she was younger then she was and when she said she gets underguessed all the time and I said something like "hey on the bright side when you're old you'll be that sexy grandma that makes her grand kids friends feel weird". She laughed I laughed, it was a genuinely pleasant chat. We exchanged names(her name was Nicolette) and well wishes and she was on her way.

When she left I was like fuck, I totally could have asked for her number. No biggy right, I'll know for next time there's a hot customer.

Anyway the next day, near closing time I get paged to the front of the store to carry goods to car. When I got to the registers she was there and my colleague was like "can you carry this paint for this lady, she's been painting all day and her arms are tired" I looked at her and said in an exaggerated sympathetic/sarcastic voice "oh you pooooor baby" and she laughed and smiled and we went out to her car. She said something like "you don't remember me do you" and I responded "yer your name is (dramatic pause for deep thought) nicollete!" She was like "holy shit how do you even remember" I said I can't tell her. She asked if it's because her name rhymes with Nicorette. I said "pfffffft no" (that's exactly how I'd remembered her name lol). So I load her paint into her car and we stand in the car park and chat about her project and how it's going. She's making doe eyes at me and I thought this is the second chance I don't deserve. I said "i remembered your name because I regretted not asking for that cute customers number yesterday" she acted surprised and flattered and I was like sweet she's totally down so I hand her a pen and paper and she writes her name and number down. Then says she has to get back to painting.

I text her this like 3-4 hours later "Nicorette, it's Thomas. We should catch up for drinks sometime next week :)" I thought it ticked all the boxes, teasing nickname, short and with clear intent, punctuation to convey a sense of fun.

Obviously I'm writing this cause she didn't respond. That was Thursday night, it's now Sunday.

Questions: 1.how can I improve what I did to help get a response next time. 2.do you think it's worth a restart text? She did mention that she had to complete the renovation by Friday night so it's possible she was too busy to respond but I'm inclined to think I need to keep my pride and never text her again. But she was incredibly hot and actually awesome to talk to so she was a bit of a rarity in my world.