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From: dck@aplvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: net.singles Forum
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Date: Wed, 25-Jan-84 14:48:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 25 14:48:35 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jan-84 11:22:59 EST
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD
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I never believed all those stories I read in net.singles
until one day at work something very special happened to me and
my officemate, John, at work. We were happily coding away one day in
the office when his girlfriend and my sister came by to visit.
They talked us into taking a break and going to the cafeteria
to discuss military design techniques. John was excited
by my sister's competence in peripheral interface techniques;
likewise, I was attracted to his girlfriends expertise in
the use of linked lists. This meeting ended uneventfully and
John and I thought nothing of it. That meeting, however,
was the beginning of a complex chain of events leading to
the degradation of all the relationships involved.
       That night John's girlfriend paid me a surprise visit,
ostensibly to continue our discussion of linked lists. I
became quite excited during this discussion, as linked lists are a
favorite topic of mine, and perhaps unwisely coerced her into
spending the night. Being as I lived
with my parents at the time, my sister discovered what had
happened. Unbeknownst to me, she had developed quite an attraction
for John earlier in the day, and so she called him to break the news.
He begged her to visit him to help allay the pain he felt in
his heart, and she, feeling sorry for him, accepted. Needless
to say, she did not return that night.
       By the end of the week, my relationship with John's
girlfriend (ex-girlfriend, now) had developed into a serious affair,
John was trying to wrangle his way out of a relationship
with my sister, as he had gotten on his feet again and no
longer needed her, and we all despised each other. Not
to mention the fact that we had all stopped hugging each
other.
       My question to all you net readers is this:
Is this normal, or am I trapped in a world I never made?
       

                                   flames accepted,
                                           
                                       ...seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!aplvax!dck