Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site abnjh.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!mcnc!akgua!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!lute From: lute@abnjh.UUCP (J. Collymore) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Re: 'forward women' Message-ID: <852@abnjh.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 16:50:27 EDT Article-I.D.: abnjh.852 Posted: Mon Sep 17 16:50:27 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 01:26:53 EDT References: <1684@inmet.UUCP>, <243@callan.UUCP> Organization: ATTIS, NJ Lines: 32 One of Geoff's points (making polite, continued passes at women) reminds me of an experience I had in college. I was a Junior, and I met this really pretty freshman. Well, I met her in October, and tried asking her out repeatedly, usually in a playfully flirtatious way, every other time I saw her somewhere. Well, she repeatedly turned me down, but I didn't let it get to me. Since she wasn't going out with anyone, I didn't feel I was disrupting an ongoing relationship or anything, I just saw it as a "game." In fact, I got so used to her turning me down, that I was TOTALLY unprepared when, after returning to school from Christmas vacation, I jokingly tried asking her out again, and she said "OK!" Now the shoe was on the other foot, and I was so used to getting a "no," I didn't know what to do now that she said "yes!" Well, everything turned out fine, and we were boyfriend and girlfriend all that semester. In fact, we have been very good friends since (and we first met 11 years ago). I asked her once a few years ago, when we were remeniscing, about why she put up with my flirtations for 3 months, and after all her rejections she finally decided to go out with me. She replied: "Well, I knew that any guy who would keep trying, for three months, to go out with me must REALLY be interested in ME!" Just goes to show you that SOMETIMES some persistent, flirtation and pursuit, can pay off. Jim Collymore p.s. But remember, what works in college often doesn't work in the real world!