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From: stuart@sesame.UUCP (Stuart Freedman)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Living with an SO (Diverted to 'Living Alone' here)
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Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 23:56:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  2 23:56:41 1985
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> People who have never lived alone very often can't take care of
> themselves ! It's not a pleasant surprise to discover that you're living
> with a person who can't check the oil in the car, has never paid a bill,
> doesn't know a teaspoon from a tablespoon and washes the dark clothes
> in with the whites. Women are better about some of these things than men
> (but not all, by any means) only because in a family situation, it's the
> women who have to cook, clean, etc for their fathers and brothers.
> -- 
> jcpatilla

Boy, don't I know that!  I have just been installing telephone jacks for
my sister and her roommates at their dorm; these people not only didn't
have tools, but didn't think that they would ever need them!  I must
confess that I have only been 'living alone' for a few months (having
just made my escape from 'life' as an undergrad) and (like a lot of people,
I'm sure) don't intend to spend my whole life this way.  I do, however,
consider it a test of my ability to care for myself as well as to
survive in a socially 'cut-off' situation (at least compared to dorm life,
which I miss a lot).  BTW, in response to the last statement in the above
quote, I must say that I have had experience with both sides of the coin,
and I blame the ignorance of people of either sex in certain areas on
the way society still shapes a person's outlook on his or her own gender's
'obligatory knowledge' (e.g., women's view that it is unnecessary to know
anything about hardware, etc., vs. men's view that all laundry can go together,
etc.).  I also note (and for some inexplicable reason, post here) that women
seem much more willing to admit defeat due to this ignorance, whereas men
generally seem to plod ahead, even at the risk of screwing things up
(see e.g. above).

Please accept my apologies for the length and disorganization of this posting;
this is my first to net.singles (that I can recall, at least :-), even though
I have been reading this group on and off (mostly off, due to volume)
for several years.
-- 
Stuart Freedman		{genrad|ihnp4|ima}!wjh12!talcott!sesame!stuart
Data General Corp.		{cbosgd|harvard}!talcott!sesame!stuart
Westboro, MA			    	    or mit-eddie!futura!stuart

I'm too busy reading other people's cute quotes to think of any of my own.