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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (James H. Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Getting that first date
Message-ID: <977@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 19:00:08 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.977
Posted: Wed Mar 13 19:00:08 1985
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Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (James H. Andrews)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <5204@utzoo.UUCP> laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) writes:
>                                ... Whenever I ask someone out I go to a
>favourite restaurant. That way, if the conversation is lousy and the
>person drives me up the wall, at least I have a very good dinner to enjoy
>and take my mind off the frustration of having picked a real winner to ask out.

Amazing! Finally someone has brought up the possibility of women asking out
men. (At least this is how I interpret Laura's message -- maybe she's talking
about asking out women :-))

I think one of the main problems in the whole first-date question is that
usually it's the men who are the askers and the women who are the askees,
so that the two sides don't understand each other well enough to interpret
signals. The solution to this, of course, is to have no restrictions on who
asks out who, so everyone more or less understands the problems on both
sides of the issue.
                                --Jamie.