Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Signals Message-ID: <1217@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Sat, 15-Dec-84 13:43:21 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.1217 Posted: Sat Dec 15 13:43:21 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:55:48 EST References: <1555@pucc-h> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 22 >Example: If one young female friend of mine had merely sent me a >Christmas card, I would have just considered it an act of >friendship. Is it still just an act of friendship when she >encloses a wallet-size photo of herself? (Surely she didn't >think I'd forgotten what face went with her name.) Ahem! Jeff, I advise you to get that mote out of your eye and give this "young female friend" a call. Reading social signals will always be an art, and not something which can be codified in books, but its been my experience that one's intuition about sexual signals is generally right. Naturally, as you get more adept, you fine-tune your perceptions. In any case, it seems to me that sending a wallet-size photo is certainly an exceptional behavior, and it wouldn't be inappropriate to get in touch with her, perhaps mentioning the photo in a friendly way, to see what her intentions are. You don't have to react inappropriately, just take this as an invitation to see if what you perceived was real. If it is, you'll know soon enough. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA