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From: amc@whuts.UUCP (COHILL)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: PMS and incompetence
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Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 09:17:34 EDT
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> 
> 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
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