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From: luchs@ihldt.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Dear net.abby
Message-ID: <1999@ihldt.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-Sep-83 15:28:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: ihldt.1999
Posted: Fri Sep 23 15:28:15 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Sep-83 05:48:42 EDT
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A friend of mine is very upset by something that happened recently.
She has been asking me what she should do, but I don't really know what to
tell her.  I thought maybe I'd throw this out into the net.singles arena
to see what everyone else thinks about it.

My friend had a birthday recently.  She figured her boyfriend would do
something special to celebrate, but as the day wore on (they didn't have
to work that day), it became more and more apparent that he was not going
to do anything.  He was aware that it was her birthday (he did say "happy
birthday").  She asked if he had any plans for the evening.  He said he
would be working on his electronics.  I ended up taking her out to dinner
for her birthday since he hadn't offered.  He told her to come back over
to his place after dinner because he had "a surprise" for her.  The
surprise was that he was giving her an old used black and white TV set
that his parents had given him.  He is building himself a color TV, and
has another b&w TV.  She also already has a b&w TV.  She did not show any
disappointment even though she felt it.  She wanted to think about it for
a while before she said anything.

She would have been very happy if he had done something that required
a little thought (not necessarily money).  It appears that he just went
home, looked around and said, "Gee, I don't need this anymore.  Guess
I'll make that her present."  She is a very thoughtful person who is
constantly coming up with nice things to do for him.  He is *very*
inexperienced, which may explain his actions.  I really think he just
doesn't know how to treat a MOTOS.  He's really not such a bad guy.  Just
ignorant.

Well, it looks like I'm starting to get a little too opinionated here
so I guess I'll stop and wait for your opinions!

Thanks,
Sarah