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How to Describe Yourself, Part 3



Is there just one easy question we can answer? Let's try this one, smoking preference. Translation: Do you smoke or don't you? For most of us this is easy, unless you are one of those people who smoke but don't inhale.

I don't smoke, I don't inhale, and I don't walk around with a pack of cigarettes rolled up in my shirtsleeve, so I put down, "doesn't smoke." Easy enough. I also put that I am looking for a nonsmoker. So what does this one goober do? After our second date he confesses that he does smoke even though he said he didn't on his ad. Well, that clarified things; I just assumed he was wearing his "lady killer" nicotine-based after-shave.

Marking "no answer" on smoking is another Einstein moment (or I should say "Clinton" moment.) What? You pull it out of the pack, light it, put it up to your lips, and then sit there like the Mona Lisa? Or do you only inhale on Thursdays. I know, you only smoke when you go out drinking. How far can you stretch denial, my friend?

When you select "no answer," do you think we're going to assume you don't smokeor that you haven't

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