Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!oliveb!olivej!olivea!oliven!hawk From: hawk@oliven.UUCP (Rick) Newsgroups: net.social Subject: Re: Social conventions Message-ID: <791@oliven.UUCP> Date: Sat, 29-Dec-84 17:31:58 EST Article-I.D.: oliven.791 Posted: Sat Dec 29 17:31:58 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 02:15:37 EST References: <796@hound.UUCP> Organization: Symposium on Alchoholism Lines: 16 >Here's a question that I've been wondering about for sometime now. >Just about everyone I know looks for a wedding ring to see if a woman >(sometimes, men too) is married. So what does one do if one is allergic >to metals (long periods of skin contact)? Buying a ring and then wearing >it only when going out seems to me to be a waste of money. Not buying >or not wearing a ring seems to me to be inviting trouble. >Comments, anyone? Depends upon how cheap the guy was! :-) Gold rings and other jewelry tend to cause less problems than some other metals (although I do have an Aunt who had problems with gold.) rick