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By Diane Forrest
Have you ever considered how lucky you are to have ever
gone on a date, gotten a kiss, even married?
The courage it takes to make that first contact is overwhelming! I have been reading some recent articles
about how to meet people, and how to ask for phone numbers, or dates, where to
meet people. Even with all the modern
technology in the world it still requires someone to take the first step. When I was growing up, I was forbidden to
call a boy. That is just something a
girl didn't do. We were just supposed to
sit by the phone and dream that at any minute it would ring, and it would be
your true love on the other end.
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Today with the use of non-published phone numbers, and
cell phones a person is required to ask for contact information, and that can
be terrifying for some guys. So much so
that the opportunity may be lost if the courage isn’t summoned. Ladies have no fear, today is your lucky
day. Today is Sadie Hawkins day. The day when it is perfectly acceptable, even
expected for you to make the first move.
Sadie Hawkins was a fictional character in a cartoon strip called Lil'
Abner. Andy Capp, the author of the
strip from 1934-1978, wrote about a hillbilly town called Dogpatch, that had several residents, one named Sadie
Hawkins. She was declared the "homeliest gal in all them hills"
. When she had reached the age of 35,
she was still unmarried and her father worried that she would remain a spinster
and live with him for the rest of her life.
This thought worried him, so he devised a plan. In desperation, he called together all the
unmarried men of Dogpatch and declared it "Sadie Hawkins Day".
Specifically, a foot race was decreed, with Sadie in hot pursuit of the town's
eligible bachelors—and matrimony as the consequence. If a woman caught a
bachelor and dragged him, kicking and screaming, across the finish line before
sundown—by law he had to marry her. This
race first appeared in the comic strip in 1937, by 1939 it was so popular that
it was being practiced at college campuses all across the nation. It was a day for women to ask me out for a
date, which was unheard of in 1939.
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Today is Sadie Hawkins day...so if you are single, get
the nerve up and ask a man out on a date, or just get the nerve up to ask him
for his phone number. You never know…could
be the start of something great!
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