Ummm...never mind. I'm not fully awake, and I just started going through
my inbox from the wrong end of the time-line. Never mind!
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Marvin Long, Jr. wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, John D. Giorgis wrote:
>
> > Forgetting also that I don't have a girlfriend (at least for the moment. :)
> >
> > In this case, I spend $50 because I value the experience of an evening with
> > my girlfriend as being worth @$50 more to me than an evening alone/evening
> > with my best male friend. This is why I take her out to Maggiano's for
> > dinner and not Le Bic Fin. I value the expereince at @$50, but not @$120.
>
> Or, if you're like most people, you don't have $120 to routinely spend on
> dates. And if the girl's a real sweetheart, then maybe she doesn't mind
> that at all, and maybe her company is worth far more than you can actually
> afford. And maybe the same is true in reverse--she has a cost-benefit
> analysis to make, too, after all.
>
>
> Marvin Long
> Austin, Texas
>
> "The ego that sees a 'thou' is fundamentally different from an ego that
> sees an 'it.'" -- Joseph Campbell
>
>
Marvin Long
Austin, Texas
"The ego that sees a 'thou' is fundamentally different from an ego that
sees an 'it.'" -- Joseph Campbell
