From: rick@sadtler.com (Rick Morris)
Subject: Re: DOOL: TAN: Multiple Responses
Organization: Sadtler Research Laboratories
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 14:54:14 GMT

Rose, the Guavita, wrote:
>            .....
>         Stereotypical computer nerd.  But I love him anyway.

Hey, what's wrong with computer nerds?

>
>Cory's hanging over my shoulder shouting "Tell him!  Tell him!"
>So,....to use a pop culture reference, he's Felix Unger and I'm
>Oscar.  He's a neatnik, I'm a slob.  It runs in my family.  I come
>from a long line of packrats and slobs.  You can't fight your genes.
>If he wants the house clean, for the most part he cleans it.
>

Wow!  We used to be tidy.  Even after #1.  But then came Todd!

>I, full of PA Dutch Corn, wrote:
>>  Like demanding his night out with the boys
>
>I had the misfortune to be there for the last night out with the boys.
>We're talking nerds night out here.  We had Cory (programmer), Mike
>(working on MS in Electrical Engineering) and John (working on Ph.D
>in Mathematics).  They used every piece of paper in my purse to write
>obscure 5-page mathematical equations.  I didn't understand but 1 word
>in 10.  I spent a lot of time talking to the waiter! :-)
>

Umm... Say, where do they hang out?  Maybe I could get a night out too...

>
>> Like The Quince says, that piece of paper really makes a difference.
>
>     Sorry, Rick, maybe it's ageneration gap rearing its ugly head here, 
>but I don't feel any of this applies to me.

Of course not.  You're not married yet.    :0)

>                               ....           We've been together over
>5 years now.  We started going out when he was 17 and I was 19.  We've
>been through a lot together.

But the mind has not said "Forever" yet.  As I have explained to a couple
of our sisters via email (in trying to get myself out of this mess), the
"forever" brings on a defense mechanism which guards against anything which
doesn't include both of you.  This is not a bad thing.  It keeps the marriage
a priority against careers, other friends, and, yes, cats too.  Keeping
the perspective is the tough part.  Forever comes with the marriage.

(I can feel myself backing into another corner here...)  It's not a
generational thing.  People are the same today as they were 100 years ago.
Marriage is entered with the same hopes and dreams.

>                                               We talk to married couples
>a lot, and they're constantly amazed at the range of things we talk about.

They talked a lot before they were married too.   :-)

I am not down on marriage, we "dated" 5 years, will be married 10 in October.
I'd marry the same girl again, even knowing then what I know now.  Even
knowing about Tim!  But it wasn't easy.  Maybe the generational thing is
just the tunnel vision of my memory seeing what was hard.  Hey, I'm not
THAT old!

>> At this point Barry Manalow's "I Made It Through The Rain" takes on
>> a whole new meaning.
>
>C'mon Rick, you were around for the 60's!  Couldn't you come up with
>something better than Barry Manilow?  Like, I dunno, I'm sure Zeppelin
>had some song with similar sentiments!
>:-)
>> 

Heh, heh.  I hated Barry Manilow back in the 70's along with most of the
Pop/Disco scene then.  But once you've made it "through the rain" the
song starts to bring tears to your eyes.  Am I not right, over 30 crowd?
Zeppelin never did make it through the rain.

The only rock lyrics which really stay with me are:

Zoot Suit, White jacket with side vents,
Five inches long.
I'm out on the street again,
Leaping along.
Dressed right for a street fight,
But I just can't explain
Why this uncertain feeling is still
Here in my brain.

I leave the source as a trivia question.

-Rick.
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Rick Morris                            Email:  rick@sadtler.com
Sadtler Research Labs, Philadelphia   -But I speak for myself
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