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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Living Alone
Message-ID: <31267@apple.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 21:43:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 21:43:42 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Sep-85 23:24:49 EDT
References: <304@cuuxa.UUCP> <249@whuts.UUCP> <506@osiris.UUCP>
Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
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Summary: 

In article <506@osiris.UUCP> jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) writes:
>
>	Andy's absolutely right and for other reasons he hasn't mentioned
>as well. People who have never lived alone very often can't take care of
>themselves! 

I don't know that living alone is a necessary condition for being able
to take care of oneself.  

I have never lived alone, and manage to survive life's little tasks
(paying bills, cooking, etc).  I have no idea what's going on inside
my car, but on the other hand, I know how to make bread.  (Why just
last week I hemmed a pair of pants, although I will admit that it was
not the most elegant example of sewing. 8->)

I learned most of these useful skills from present and former
roommates.  You have to have to get in the habit of asking "How do
you do X?" rather than "Can you do X for me?", paying attention to
what they are doing, and asking questions.

I do agree with Andy's original article, in that one does need to do
some introspection once in a while, and that this is hard to do if you
are always surrounded by people.  

Larry


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Larry Rosenstein
Apple Computer

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