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From: kenr@aat.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: an extreme example of a woman taking the initiative
Message-ID: <201@aat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Dec-83 14:02:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  5 14:02:51 1983
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It's been eight months since I fell in love with the
first person to ever shut me up about the phone company.

It was a typical Tektronix party. I was trying to keep my face
out of the shrimp dip by bitching about the phone company (a
standard rap of mine), and I was a third of the way through, getting
to the good part about the time the bastids *really inconvenienced
me*, when one of the women I was barraging leaned over to me
and said, "That's just awful.  Why don't you just kill yourself?"

I like to tell people at this point that I rallied strongly,
like William Hurt might: "Why..don't..you..just..*bore*..
me..to..death?" My actual reply was shorter and to the
point.

"Huh?"  I said, knowing that brevity is the soul of wit and
hoping to hell that I said it with enough conviction to make
it sound clever.  Hearing my head rattle cleared my wits a bit,
so I went on the offensive.  "Are you, perhaps, *with* the 
phone company?  Wouldn't it just make your job a *lot* easier
if I were to silence myself so you wouldn't have to?"

Well, we bantered a bit, and I was completely taken; anybody
who thinks I should kill myself because of the phone company
is somebody I want to get to know better.  The rest is history;
before I could ask myself "What would a *mink* do in this situation?"
she had spirited me off.

We're still together, doing fine.  There's a lesson in here
for you women who are too shy to make the first move:  
you can actually tell a guy to *kill* himself, and the damned fool
will be charmed.  

Your pal,

Ken Rhodes