Annie's Mailbox®, June 26
by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar
Dear Annie: I'm a 29-year-old guy and have never dated — and I mean never. I went on two dinner meetings that did not really qualify as dates and they never progressed further. I knew immediately that the other person wasn't for me. We both agreed there were no signs of "clicking."
I'm the intellectual type, although I have a good sense of humor and I'm not a geek. I like life at a slow, relaxed pace, but I also like to have fun.
What can I do to find the person ...
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Posted by: Tina
Comment: #1
Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:22 AM
I've known a lot of guys (including my husband) who were named after their fathers, and not a single one of them has been happy about it. They've been stuck with cutesy or childish nicknames to avoid confusion, and my husband has even had some of his father's accounts show up in his credit report. While I can understand naming a kid after a deceased loved one as a way of keeping the memory alive, I've never understood the practice of naming sons after (living) fathers -- it just seems way too confusing for the child...and is also how I ended up in a family that had at least seven guys named Joseph. (My husband's family is similarly burdened with guys named Frank.)
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Posted by: Mrs. Michelle Hatfield
Comment: #2
Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:53 PM
Gee! Does Paul's article ever hit home! I like quite nights at home with a good book, puzzle, the evening paper, and/ or the nightly news. Then I met my husband who is NOTHING like me! He's the good ole' boy, outdoors type who worries more about NASCAR than who's going to be the next president! He's very witty and a laugh a minute! And to think, I just about let him go by because at first, I thought we had nothing in common. Turns out the exact opposite of myself is exactly what I needed!
Regardless if Paul is straight or gay, he needs to put himself out there more and not be afraid of a little "spice!"
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Posted by: Third
Comment: #3
Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:38 PM
My father is a Junior, I am a III, my son is a IV, we are all happy with our names. While there has been on ocasion some confusion it has never been by anybody that knew us. When we received that somewhat ambigous phone call asking for one of us, we would merely ask which one, if they could not answer we hung up, they obviously knew none of us. If I feel bad for anybody it is IV's twin brother. My wife went around telling everybody that if she ahs twins she would name the second one after them. So he is named after seven people, fortunately there was some duplication of names so he only has 3 middle names. It does cause some problems with some forms, but for a change we get to infuriate the beureucrats.
In any case my name has been in my family for over 100 years now, and it is kind of nice to have people know who I am just by my name.
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Posted by: Ryan Healey
Comment: #4
Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:54 AM
Unless today's letter from the 29-year old was edited, I am a bit suprised by your response. Although he seems to take pains to not mention the gender of his dates, you immediately go into a paragraph or two on "how to meet women". It's 2008. You may know something your readers do not about this writer, but you should have made the advice gender neutral. He said he has never dated at 29 and has a hard time meeting people. Plenty of young gay men are in this situation. Who said he is looking for a women just because he's a guy??
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