Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site l5.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!ptsfa!l5!laura From: laura@l5.uucp (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: RE2: being attached Message-ID: <260@l5.uucp> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 14:41:01 EST Article-I.D.: l5.260 Posted: Tue Nov 12 14:41:01 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 07:40:43 EST References: <680@ihlts.UUCP> Reply-To: laura@l5.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Distribution: net Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 29 In article <680@ihlts.UUCP> rainbow@ihlts.UUCP (Robert) writes: > >On the contrary, it could be quite insulting, given the proper example. >Take for instance the following context. We run into each other and >strike up a conversation. You are only being friendly. I on the other >hand assume its because you are totally enamored with me and >find me irresistable. So I figure I better start mentioning >my SO just to slow you down a little. Now I would take this >bit of presumptiousness as being quite rude showing an oversized >ego on my part. Or wouldn't you mind being treated like that? > >Robert Assuming that I parsed that penultimate sentence correctly -- no, I wouldn't mind. ``Buzz off, jerk, I don't want to talk to you now that I have a new lover'' That's rude. ``My lover, Jordan and I went to this wonderful hosprings last weekend'' -- now that's intersting. [Where's the hotsprings, for instance, would be my next question and Did you enjoy it would get out there pretty soon and so on...] Are there really people out there who find it rude that all the world is not dying to have a relationship with them? -- Laura Creighton sun!l5!laura (that is ell-five, not fifteen) l5!laura@lll-crg.arpa