One of the most debilitating conditions when it comes to getting the girl, is that of being timid and introverted. I know - I used to be an EXTREMELY shy person. So, how do you overcome shyness with women?
First things first, let’s clear one thing up. Being shy does not necessarily mean you are insecure. It is possible to be very confident in other areas of your life, but just shy and awkward when it comes to speaking with women.
An adage is a time-tested truism, but some adages don’t ad up anymore. “A penny saved is a penny earned” has deflated in meaning because of inflation.
“Penny-wise and pound foolish” is an English adage. Here it would be more effective as an ad for Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig. Another truism about money is “A fool and his money are soon parted”. This one must explain Las Vegas.
Then there’s the one about saving for a rainy day. Because I live in Southern California, I wouldn’t save much - certainly not as much as people living in Seattle. Actually, it’s Prince Charles who should be saving for a reigny day.
I admit it. I need a twelve-step program for people addicted to mail order catalogs. I was clean and shopless for eight months. I was able to put every catalog that came in the mail into the wastebasket without opening a page.
Unfortunately, my resistance crumbled when I was marooned in a doctor’s waiting room without a magazine - not even a three-month-old copy of Newsweek. The other patients, who were also trying to be patient, had taken all the reading material except one, dog-eared catalog.
Once upon a time there was a little girl named Goldilocks. When I was a little girl, this was just a bedtime story. As an adult, I can read the lesson between the lines. Picky people are hard to bear.
When I heard the story of “Cinderella”, I wanted glass slippers. Now I would need the slippers in size eight and a half. If I tried to squeeze my feet into eights, I’d undoubtedly shatter my dreams about Prince Charming. “If the shoe fits, wear it” is “Cinderella’s” lesson.
Brunch must have been invented by a female. When we lived on the East Coast, brunch was a late, Sunday breakfast at home. It was an edible excuse for me to sleep more and cook less.
On the West Coast brunch is big business. On the West Coast you don’t have bunch, you DO brunch. On the West Coast you do brunch on Saturday or Sunday.
There are two kinds of brunch - menu and buffet. If it’s my choice, it means my birthday is on a weekend.
No one man has all the qualities I want my president to have, but maybe I want too much. I want a man of the people - someone who understands the problems of the common man - someone who tells it like it is - someone like a termite inspector.
My candidate should have experience governing. He should work unceasingly to get different groups to work together for the common good. He should have been a PTA President. Of course, getting people to work together requires compromise; and we’ve seen that compromising positions can be very difficult for some government officials.
I don’t know why women got a reputation for being bad drivers - unless pushing supermarket carts counts as driving. I think I’m a good driver. After all, I spent seven years driving in New York City. When I sang “New York, New York”, I changed the words. I sang “If you can drive it there, you can drive it anywhere. New York. New York”.
When I drive, I follow the rules of the road, while trying not to follow the car in front of me too closely. I stop for pedestrians crossing the street; but on freeways I’m the one who’s crossing - my fingers. I know I’m driving too fast when I can’t read the vanity plates on the cars I’m passing.
