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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
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Posted: Sat Dec 29 17:31:58 1984
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>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