| I opened my email at work to find a note from a co-worker I'd never met. It seems that the writer had seen me at the recent company picnic and wanted to <gasp> ask me out. Asking for a date via email? From someone with whom you've never exchanged words? That's oh-so-Silicon Valley! But it happened. I wish I'd kept a copy of the correspondance. But I didn't so you have to rely on my recollection of events. Here's how it went. In the initial query, my suitor introduced himself and said that, after seeing me at the picnic, he had asked someone else for my name. Instead of approaching me in person, he decided email was the safest tactic for asking a woman for a date. He started the email directly and told me that he was interested in asking me out. However, there was a catch. He knew (just KNEW!) that all attractive women were either 1) married 2) seeing someone or 3) not interested in dating because they were still recovering from the last relationship. He believed there were no available, attractive women in all of Silicon Valley. If his usual method of getting to know women is to send them unsolicited email, then I can well understand how he came to this conclusion. But I digress. He finished the message by asking me to just let me know which of those answers was correct but on the remote chance that I WAS single, would I be interested in getting together sometime? Well, it happened that I was, at the time, single. I was curious about my suitor. After all, what kind of person would ask someone out via email...and believe that might possibly work? I checked the company directory and discovered that he worked in another group, in another building. I still had no idea who he was. I could have made a greater effort to find out but I decided that was too much work and that I should at least reply to his message. I sent back a two line response:
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