Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cuuxb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mgnetp!ltuxa!cuuxb!frye From: frye@cuuxb.UUCP (frye) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Date lottsa people & get some variety. Message-ID: <277@cuuxb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 09:34:26 EST Article-I.D.: cuuxb.277 Posted: Mon Nov 11 09:34:26 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:30:59 EST Organization: AT&T-IS, Customer Support, Lisle, Il. Lines: 73 Just read Laura and Bithead vs. Laura. Distribution: net I don't know... I think Ol' Bithead thinks Laura is a little to rabid in her posting. I took Laura to mean that she's a little tired of the men she dated being an emotional drain. I see nothing wrong with her wanting to date for the fun of dating. If she did find someone she wanted to keep, I'm sure she'd pick a man who's fairly stable. I wouldn't want to be somebody's total emotional support either. I've been through that and won't ever do it again. Howsomever, everyone needs a shoulder once in a while. I didn't see where Laura said she'd refuse the use of one of her's. She mearly said she wouldn't want someone crying on it all the time. She sounds pretty level headed to me (and I don't mean you could play pool on top of it(8-)). I guess I might as well throw this in too. Someone asked me (in regard to my trip to Portland) how I could love anyone I had just met. Let me clue you folks into something. Over this net it is totally impossible to become smitten or infatuated with anyone. It is impossible to become distracted by what a person is doing or what that person looks like. I also believe that it is totally impossible to feel that someone is a friend if I don't love that person. I love all my friends and hope someone doesn't like it. My friendship with these two women is what lead me to go see them. I'm glad I did go. I may get to go see them again. Meanwhile, I'll just keep writing to them and keep on loving 'em. Its easy to do, they haven't given me any reason not to love them and plenty of reasons why I should. Oh, one last think in case anyone is interested. I said I love them, I didn't say I was in love with them (as if they were going to become my number one sweetie(s) or the like). There's a difference. If there's any question about what's going on with me around home, I have several friends I run around here with. I don't have what you'd call an SO right now. I feel I'd be just what Laura is trying to avoid.(8-) The last SO was a manic depres- sive and she turned terminal. She took herself out just before Christmas last year. If you think I'm gonna inflict myself on some nice lady before my mental scars heal a little, you've got a little more thinkin' to do. The two or three women who've kinda tried getting me to be interested in them have been shut down with the understanding that I ain't gonna inflict me on 'em. Not just yet anyhow. I get to feeling a little better everyday and will be looking around to see who I could "love to death"(8-), but see, I don't want to appear too easy. I gotta be romanced a little. I've got my reputation to think of. I don't wanna look like no pushover or anything like that(8-). God, its hard to write stuff like that without laughin' out loud(8-). I've dumped about enough o' this stuff on you kind folks fer now. I got work to be did anywho. Thanx for your indulgence. Here I sit with a drink and a memory, but I'm not cold and I'm not wet and I'm not hungry. So, classify these as good times, good times. <----Don't know if Willie wrote it or not, but he sang it. Regards, Tom Frye