Post #172815 by mrs. pineapple on Mon, Jul 18, 2005 8:40 AM

On 2005-07-18 02:54, Chrisc wrote:

He then asked, didn't I think I needlessly isolated myself from the rest of society by my esoteric tastes? If I took more of an interest in popular culture I would find myself less alone (I'm a 46-year-old bachelor). Perhaps there was some kind of unconscious mechanism at work...

When I was in college my sister was trying to fix me up with one of her B-I-L's friends who was in law school at Penn, he was totally not into me, and she made this huge deal about it being because of my tattoos and punk rock friends, etc. (this was 15 years ago)

When I brought Mr. Pineapple-Bot back to meet the family, my sister, her 19 y/o daughter and I were in the car jokinng about what an overbearing nag my sister can be, and I told my niece about how her mom and I didn't talk for a year because she hurt my feelings when she said if I didn't start acting more 'normal' no one would ever want to marry me, and my sister got really quiet and said, 'Actually, Tony came out of the closet a few years after you moved to SF...' A-HA! My niece gave her grief ALL week, and told me how happy she was that I waited to marry Uncle Rich, because he was pefect for me :)

Don't settle, somewhere out there is the perfect person for all of us!