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- From: aaldrich@encore.com (Al Aldrich)
- Subject: Re: How come?
- Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:30:20 GMT
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- cgates@mitre.org (Curt Gates) writes:
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- >In article <4444@unisql.UUCP> wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie) writes:
- >> Yaaahhhh, I was waiting for someone to say that.
-
- >I knew you would appreciate it, my friend. Thats why I tossed it in.
- >Meanwhile, I have done some field research on the subject --I raised the
- >question at breakfast this morning, and my wife said virtually the same
- >things Amy did, with almost identical examples. So then I reminded her of
- >how I could still see my aunts (now desceased) haggling over the last
- >penny at Miss Duttons Tea Room. And then haggling over how to divide the
- >tip! She even topped that by remembering an incident, totalling 30 cents,
- >that involved her mother in law! Now that hit pretty close to home. So
- >I said I thought it had a lot to do with cultural background and maybe the great depression.
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- Personally, my experience has been that this sort of behaviour is more
- of a cultural than a gender thing. In my experience it is usually the
- WW II generation and before that has this obsession with money. I know that
- when my partner and I go out with our friends under 50,
- that include all manner of
- male/female combinations ( single , partnered gay/straight ), the split it
- up equally philosophy is usually preferred . However, when we go out with
- relatives and friends that are over 50, it is more like the scenario that
- was attributed here to women as opposed to men, regarless of gender.
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- al
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- Al Aldrich aaldrich@encore.com 305-797-2335
- "Mythology: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its
- origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished
- from the true accounts which it invents later." -- Ambrose Bierce
-