Hi WCW, I'm getting caught up on everyone's activites.

First of all, I have to say I like the way bigAl cut through the bull and got right to the point. His response to your doubts was dead on.

I wouldn't propose to speak for all males, but from my view, appearance only gets the conversation started. If appearance is all there is, I'll politely move on.

There is a time and place for comfortable/casual clothes and a time for dress-up/sexy . Note that "grubby/sloppy" didn't make the list!

A person can be carrying a few extra pounds and still look and be healthy, and I think healthy and confident are the things that make a person truely attractive.

I caught your comment about me helping bigAl out with his private jet. My job for the last four years is running an engineering department that designs tooling for our plant. The plant makes parts for the two major corporate jet manufacturers. When bigAl sells his novel I'll be happy to make a recommendation . The folks in Savannah get a cool $40M for one of theirs. (Gold plated bathroom fixtures for heaven sake!) I'm not jet qualified, but I'm trainable - need a pilot bigAl