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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
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Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI
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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?"
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--Heather Emanuel {allegra, decvax!brunix, linus, ccice5} rayssd!hxe
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