From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!teklabs!done@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: Re: For Singles Only?
Article-I.D.: teklabs.1541
Posted: Mon Nov 15 09:53:24 1982
Received: Thu Nov 18 05:11:44 1982

The reason your "zeroing-in" technique doesn't work too often is that
all single women have boyfriends; the ones who don't, don't want one.
A crass generalization, you say?  Perhaps, but examining the sum total
of my so-called "romantic" experiences to date, the only successes I've
had are those in which I've inadvertently interposed myself between
some nice young lady and her current boyfriend, effectively "stealing"
her and killing the previous relationship.  I have had absolutely NO
experiences where I have found a supposedly un-spoken-for lady who was
looking for a new relationship.

My distaste for this sort of survival-of-the-fittest competition, and
for the time-honored techniques of "zeroing-in" (although I've done it
on numerous occasions), is presumably the factor that has kept me single.
Perhaps if I were more skilled at the sexual graces of pursuit and
conquest, I would be more in the mainstream of "single society".  Yet,
I still hold onto the pie-in-the-sky hopes of finding a compatible
companion without having to develop a skill in sexual swordplay.