Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!rayssd!hxe From: hxe@rayssd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social Subject: Re: Meeting the Parents Message-ID: <577@rayssd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 12:23:19 EST Article-I.D.: rayssd.577 Posted: Thu Nov 29 12:23:19 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 07:17:14 EST References: <1898@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI Lines: 19 What *I* want to know is this: Why is it that, whenever you meet "The Parents" for the first time, they always serve spaghetti or chicken or any food designed to slide delicately off your chin and onto your lap? I suppose it's a test. Of course, I'm a vegetarian, so I almost always encounter open hostility as soon as food is mentioned in the meat-and-potatoes bastion of most of the homes I've visited. I usually try to arrange non-mealtime meetings. I usually fail. "What do you mean, what do I eat?" -- --Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe -------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't think my company *has* an opinion, so the ones in this article are obviously my own. -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Such a foolish notion, that war is called devotion, when the greatest warriors are the ones who stand for peace."