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From: daver@hp-pcd.UUCP (daver)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Checking out the motos
Message-ID: <10400014@hp-pcd.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Jan-85 22:07:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 19 22:07:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpcvrd!daver    Jan 23 19:07:00 1985

I usually look a person in the eye and smile recognition.  I find that the
people seldom feel threatened and, in fact, often recognize me later and we
become friends.  More often than I would expect, a person I have smiled at
in this way greets me by name and turns out to be someone I had met but not
recognized or remembered.  I find this much less embarrassing than ignoring
someone I should have recognized but who had changed their [note use of
neutral third person pronoun - see net.women] hair or something.  I live in
a relatively small town (population ~40,000) and this technique might not
work in Times Square, but it has worked in the SF bay area and even in other
parts of NYC.

Dave Rabinowitz
hplabs!hp-pcd!daver