From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!sii!mem
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: Bad and Good
Article-I.D.: sii.234
Posted: Tue Nov 16 01:10:17 1982
Received: Wed Nov 17 05:10:46 1982

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Here are some bad and some good things about being single.
This is to be used as reference throughout life.


Bad
===

- When the car breaks down, how do you get it to the garage; how do you
  get to work, who can you blame for abusing it?

- You tend to spend money on frivolous things, impulsively.  Like
  computer terminals...

- You come home from work and find that you don't want to go shopping
  for food, and end up eating fast-food stuff most of the time.  Days
  later, when you open the refrigerator, you regret it.

- No one monitors the supply of toilet paper.

- You get wrapped up in a half-day procrastination cycle.  Things which
  in the evening seem to be better left for doing the next day, come
  daytime seem too trivial to interrupt work for.  

- You find yourself awake at two o'clock in the morning, night after night.


Good
====

- You can come home after work and chose privacy.  The discovery of
  how valuable this is often comes too late.

- You can spend money, impulsively, on frivolous things.

- You don't have to take out the garbage until it blocks the refrigerator.

- Life is somewhat autocratic.  You don't have to explain yourself;
  don't have to collaborate on every effort and decision.


Mark Mallett

P.S.:  Essay question:  Decide whether or not this is serious, humorous,
       or some of each.  Identify (to yourself) any comments which really
       belong in net.baseball