Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuts!amc From: amc@whuts.UUCP (COHILL) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: PMS and incompetence Message-ID: <173@whuts.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 09:17:34 EDT Article-I.D.: whuts.173 Posted: Wed Jul 17 09:17:34 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 08:26:40 EDT References: <993@ubc-vision.CDN> <202@ihlpl.UUCP> <282@timeinc.UUCP>, <206@ihlpl.UUCP> <592@mtung.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 32 *** *** > > Women can at least tell > better where in their cycle they are, and plan around it. > -- > Julia Harper I have to be a bit skeptical of that statement. I have shared living quarters with three women, and in all three cases, I have been able to tell at least two to three days before them when their period is about to begin. Things usually go like this... (After observing peculiar behavior...) ME: Your period is about due, isn't it? SHE: How the hell would you know? ME: (I say nothing, having learned to keep my mouth shut) two days later... I'm sitting on the couch reading, about 9PM. She comes over and sits next to me. SHE: I'm depressed. ME: Your period started today, right? SHE: (in a petulant tone of voice) Yes! In *my* experience, the biggest problem women have with PMS is not the physical/psychological side effects, but just plain 'fessing up that there *are* some side effects.... Andy Cohill {allegra|ihnp4}whuts!amc