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OUTLOOK Saturday November a Page Entertainment Outlook Night school classes in dating techniques There are times when you really have a few about the 1900a trend to treat dating as a social science This was the thought that came to mind upon discovering that a S based company called Learning Annex has grossed million this year by offering night classes on how to find a lover Good lord Night classes In dating techniques Whatever happened to the good old days when women took night classes to learn and macrarae and men claimed to be taking night classes so they could go bowling Instead Apparently Learning Annex Is even branching cut beyond classes In simple dating in certain American cities I read this in a newspaper so It must be true theyre ottering courses on how to cheat on your spouse and what to do when your psychiatrist Is away on holiday This Is the point at which the mind begins to boggle In fact you start wondering If the day will come when they actually combine these two courses for the benefit of those who are both unfaithful to their wife and lost without their shrink say perhaps a course In how to approach your psychiatrists wife while he Is at a convention Mercifully however such exotic courses are not yet offered In Canada Apparently Learning Annex has concluded that were still at the how to get a date phase And obviously you have to get a date before you can get married things one step at a time In any case the news story in question on a night class In where 20 students mostly men have paid to leam how to aw shucks find a Now right on we bat you might suspect that these fellows are making a certain tactical error It hopeless at spotting female Interest since the alternative Is to conclude that there never Is any Many men I suspect secretly yearn for the halcyon days of Grade girls manifested their In and youre a lonely guy looking for female companionship a gooo first step Is to find a night class with a few women in However It is reported that these men are gaining valuable tips on how to meet new women and how to tell when a woman Is attracted to them Naturally 1 read on with considerable Interest since Ive always been pretty useless In both departments Let me be honest I have never really tried to hurl myself Into the swinging singles scene 1 once stumbled Into a singles bar by pure accident and It took me the better part an hour to figure out I began to catch on after discovering that was the only guy in the place who wasnt wearing white shoes I am also hopeless at picking up those little signs which are supposed to Indicate a womans Interest In me Or at least I prefer to think that I mis take able manner they slipped you a note and then ran off with a girlfriend to giggle in the corner Unfortunately most women have stopped doing this by the age of But the mysteries are explained in these night classes For Instance It seems that a woman may be expressing her Interest In you If she clears her throat or flicks lint from her jacket This is a wondrous revelation until you stop to consider that a woman who does these things may also be expressing the fact that she has a headcold or lint on her Jacket So what do you do Do you forge ahead and ask her out or do you wait until she does something which Indicates major Interest like say sneezing and wiping feet The tips on meeting new women were even less reassuring Apparently the fellows In the Toronto class spent a evening discussing such strategies as staking out the frozen food sections at supermarkets and honest Im not making this up checking obituaries in order to take casseroles to strangers whose spouses had died SANTAS HELPER Every Santa is a little rushed getting ready for Christmas So were helping out with a special offer available through December 24 on a 20piece barrel of Kentucky Fried Chicken with two 500 ml salads plus bread When youre celebrating the season with family and friends stop by your nearest Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet You can pick up a delicious meal packaged and ready to go 116A Guelph St Georgetown 8775241 Well Im sure the average man can muster the nerve to spend half an hour lurking amongst the TV dinners But checking the obituaries and taking casseroles to the recently bereaved Good lord What are you supposed to say HI Im awfully sorry to bear about Put I guess this means you re free tomorrow Nope I think Ill pass on these night courses and stick to my own true methods of avoiding the horrors of a life without dates These consist largely or doing the dishes occasionally and Inventing new arguments wblcb might convince the Brunette that she could do worse Nells DRIVING SCHOOL NEXT COURSE Moo Wed 9 Gift A For Information About Counts or Private Lessons PHONE Approved by the Ontario Safety League