From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxq!dopey
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: hairwashing blues
Article-I.D.: ihuxq.195
Posted: Sun Dec  5 17:47:29 1982
Received: Mon Dec  6 05:58:32 1982



IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT.  A CACKLING LAUGH EMERGED FROM
THE LAUNDRY HAMPER, AND THEN...

There have been a few Members of the Appropriate Sex (MOTAS)
(female) that I've become serious with on occasion.  I'm
writing this to net.singles, which implies (correctly) that
these relationships did not work out.

The problem is that I have never gotten over these women,
and when I see the IBM building in Chicago, or eat a
peppermint patty, or hear Three Dog Night, I get depressed
and do odd things - driving past where she once lived, or
deciding to write her a romantic note and run off to
Minnesota with her forever.

How do you get rid of the desire for a desirable person?
The times we shared were great, but I'd rather remember them
painlessly than with longing.

The best way to get rid of the longing is to find somebody
else to love, but that is a slow and unreliable process.
Can I just "wash that woman right out of my hair?" Seems
tough - I could end up with blonde roots, and everybody
would know.  Do I just have to live with it?  That wouldn't
be awful (certainly better than an enema, for example), but
it isn't very productive.

Pardon my gloom. It's a warm and windy Sunday evening, much 
like a time I spent with a lovely lady some years ago...



				       Not afraid that I'll forget,

				       Blastum
				       ihps3!ihuxq!dopey