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From: woods@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: ont.singles
Subject: Re: ont.singles?
Summary: Bay Street women!!!
Message-ID: <1989Feb18.172135.11049@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 89 22:21:35 GMT
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In article <89Feb14.155720est.38057@neat.ai.toronto.edu> gara@theory.toronto.edu (Gara Pruesse) writes:
> In article <8902141802.AA05295@carlton.csri.toronto.edu> migod@csri.toronto.edu (Mike Godfrey) writes:
> >Gara Pruesse (gara@theory.toronto.edu) writes:
> >> Some of my female friends say that Toronto is a desert as far as interesting 
> >> single males go.  
> >> 
> >> O'course, many of them are Bay street oriented.  
> >Is that Bay street before or after dark?  Are your friends hanging around the 
> >Wellesley YMCA after 11pm looking for dates?

Positively scary! :-)

> To elucidate:
> The friends I was thinking of work on Bay street, or thereabouts.
> I.e., downtown, the financial hub, etc.
> 
> I guess they've been relying on meeting people through work, or
> after work in the usual Bay street watering holes.  As I say,
> they describe it as a desert.

When discribed in that manner, I begin to look forward to returning back
to the office in April (upper downtown, i.e. Dundas & University, near
enough to the U. of T., and near to all the hospitals full of
over-worked nurses).

> So, if there are so many interesting women out there who are not
> dating as much as they would like to, there ought to be a perceivable 
> advantage to being a single man in Toronto.  Is this the case?  And 
> what should they do to meet interesting single men?  (And don't suggest 
> TARTS.  I'm not going to suggest to any of my friends that they attend 
> anything that has the acronym TARTS.)

Get them interested in computers and send them to our user group
meetings.  Give them my phone number.  Better:  send me photographs and
numbers.  :-) :-) :-) :-)  [ or should that be 1/2 :-) ]

Actually, I've been a bit too busy in my spare time to have any time to
meet people!  I have trouble fitting everything in as it is.  What with
/usr/group/cdn, freelance and volunteer work for Rogers Cable 10,
keeping up with new stuff in computers (including reading Usenet), and
last but not least catching up on lost sleep from the other activities,
I've not even had any time to work on any pet projects at home.

The problem with being single, especially in a place like Toronto, and
especially when one doesn't like wasting one's time (and money) in bars
and clubs, is that you take on a lot of other "extracurricular"
activities that often do not help to alleviate single-ness.  It's a
vicious circle.  If you didn't do it you'd become a couch-potato, or go
insane, or read everything under the sun; and if you do, you risk
burning out.  Even if you do happen to start a relationship, it is
somtimes quite difficult to reduce one's activites to a level tolerable
to a mate.
-- 
						Greg Woods.

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