Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!oaf From: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Inviting someone to ski, climb, whatever... Message-ID: <4801@mit-vax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 14:48:45 EST Article-I.D.: mit-vax.4801 Posted: Fri Mar 1 14:48:45 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:17:59 EST References: <> <218@lasspvax.UUCP> Reply-To: oaf@mit-vax.UUCP (Oded Feingold) Distribution: net Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 28 Summary: It doesn't have to be a date "... Asking someone to go skiing or rockclimbing or sailing or jogging does not connotate a "date" but allows you to get to know that person in a less pressurized atmosphere. Clare (Chu) Touche! It also lets you have fun without worrying about how you're doing, when and whether you're going to score, what the wedding's going to cost, whether you can deal with the inlaws. That kind of shared activity has worked very well for me, not so much in the regard of finding lovers as finding people who are fun to be with. The _right_ sublimation for all those folks who are otherwise so damned inttense and overeager that they pop the question after two minutes, then wonder why they got left. (In addition, what a person is like on a rock climb tells me a LOT about that person in general. That kind of intensity we could use more of.) "p.s. I wish my fiance had asked me to go skiing, but when I met him I had a broken leg and he doesn't ski..." No sympathy - teach him to ski. :-) Cheers, -- Oded Feingold UUCP: mitvax!oaf MIT AI Lab Arpa: oaf%oz@mit-mc.ARPA 545 Tech Sq. AT&T: 617-253-8598 Cambridge, Mass. 02139