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Janet Bostwick

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:49:12 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

>On Saturday, August 16, 2014 5:48:56 PM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
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>> Women reading books at restaurants labels you as a unsocialble,
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>> homely spinster. Bonus point if it's a Harliquen Romance. Extra
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>> bonus point if you bring two of them in case you finish the first one.
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>Comment from 6 days ago:
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> DavidWNicholas
>"I think this is an old-fashioned gender thing. Back in the day when
>I was young, my mother had a serious thing about eating alone, and told
>me that she'd actually heard of restaurants that wouldn't serve single
>women. Presumably there was a stigma attached to the woman alone,
>presuming that she was making herself available to be picked up or
>even a prostitute (similar to the 'no visible means of support' laws
>in some rural areas in the '30s) so they wouldn't serve them, or even
>allow them in the restaurant. My wife still won't eat alone in a
>sit-down restaurant, prefers drive-through where she can eat in the
>car without feeling self-conscious. I, on the other hand, enjoy an
>old-style diner where I can sit at the counter and eat, have the
>waitress refill the coffee regularly, be leisurely and even spread
>out a bit, occupying the space next to myself. I too usually have a
>book (sometimes more than one) and I can be found there, reading by
>the hour at times."
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>Lenona.

I'm pretty sure there used to be back entrances for unaccompanied
women -- they had a separate room. I remember seeing the sign over a
door in my home town.
Janet US