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Subject: RE:wedding rings
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 11:23:39 EST
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Newsgroups: net.singles   Subject: Re: wearing rings

>I have a star sapphire with four tiny diamonds which I wear on my left ring
>finger when I wear rings at all.  It was a birthday present from my
>grandfather when I turned 20, but most people don't know that, and it looks
>like it may well have been put there by an SO.  Which brings me to the real
>answer to your question.  Sometimes I just want to protect myself from
>pestering morons who feel the need to obnoxiously "hit" on any available
>female (e.g., going out for a drink at a bar with a girlfriend).  For these
>people to see a ring on someone's finger leads them to think something along
>the lines of "she's already taken; why bother?" and thus eliminates for me
>the potential for harassment (or at least reduces it).  Second, any man who
>*won't* talk to me because he thinks I'm married, engaged, or whatever isn't
>worth my time:  if he cannot see me as a friend, but only as a potential
>person with whom he can go farther (I decline to specify a degree of "going
>farther"), I don't need him as a friend, either.  A real friend won't be put
>off by the probability that the relationship will not go farther than "just"
>a friendship.

Well Spoken!