On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 16:28, Kent West wrote: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > >I think you'd have to be incredibly smooth to pull off that "husband" > >line without sounding like a jerk. > > I wouldn't say it to a 20-year old girl; but a 35-year old who's beginning to question > her fading youthful appeal or a 45-year old seems to brighten up on hearing it, if, as > you say, it's done right. Just a quick comment, and then walk away, so the woman knows > there's no "come on" or pick-up attempt. > > Still, yes, I often suspect that it's going overboard. Strangely enough, this paragraph did NOT get any newlines, while all the others did. Quite strange. But getting back to the topic at hand, if comments like those are inappropriate, then I'm the most sexist, chauvinistic pig ever born. In the year I spent working as a server at a restaurant, I probably doubled my overall tips through comments like that. (And from somewhat facetiously asking for ID before giving a senior citizen discount, though I generally did this for both men and women. :) Is that wrong? Well, maybe it's not perfectly ethical. But it makes the people I'm saying it feel good, and even if that doesn't get me a better tip, I'm still happy about making someone feel good. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part