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In article 77s@world.std.com, jcooley@world.std.com (John Cooley) writes:
><walker_g@eisner.decus.org> wrote:
>>
>>Is that what you want? A woman who is only interested in you because
>>you have money? Are you really grateful that having money
>>appears to get you more dates? How can you tell if a woman likes your
>>money or you?
>
>Gail, you may not like it.  It may not even be Politically Correct.  But
>I've seen it happen time & time again.  I have a friend who's a fireman.
>He used to drive an old truck and rent a cheesy apartment in Cambridge.
>He's meet women but they've be of a certain lower calibur.  He ditched
>the truch, got a sports car, bought a place on Cape Cod and started
>dressing better.  BAM!   He starts meeting plenty more women who were
>considerably classier.  His personality hasn't changed a bit; it was
>his attire & possesions that changed everything.  He kept being friendly
>and joking, etc. when he met women; the only thing that changed was
>he made it a point to weave into the conversation references about his
>place in the Cape and his car.  It really was a *world* of difference
>for him.  Now he's getting married to a really good woman he met who
>also has her own house and a good career, etc.  Yea, he met his share
>of gold diggers, but he also got to meet a *lot* of non-gold diggers
>because he spruced up his material presence.
>

Excuse me, but there's a big difference between women being out for 
the biggest income they can find and only dating guys in sports cars 
with plenty of money, and women preferring to go out with someone 
dressed nicely driving a car instead of someone dressed casually (or 
worse) driving an old pickup. 

I personally would tend to think that I probably don't have much
in common with a guy whose main transportation is an old truck. 
But that's not a judgment based on only dating guys with money; for 
example, I wouldn't have the same reaction to a guy driving an old 
Volvo with 160,000 miles on it or something.


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