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<blockquote>Good luck finding something to do with your lady on Saturday night when no one has had singing, dancing or acting lessons in high school.</blockquote>

Wait, what?

That's it? That's just... pitiful.

And singing? Acting? These are the enabling top of your list of what you want to do with a partner on Saturday night?

I can see the dancing for the dance-oriented (though I certainly think it's absurd to assert that "lessons in high school" are required to engage in such pursuits) but the other two don't seem to me to be first-order choices for most people.

I mean, let's think about a nice Saturday night. There's the big one, a romantic interval leading, hopefully, to wild monkey sex and consensual showering. Some enjoy getting high together, either at home or out and about. There's sharable entertainment of all kinds: the play house, the movie house (or home theater &mdash; here, we've quit going out for that one as I built us a nice theater here), the ballet, comedy clubs, sports events, dinner out, charity events, visiting friends, visiting family, taking a nice walk...

Then there are more homey things one might enjoy, such as crafting, working on the home, studying together, discussing current events, spending some quality time with the pets and/or the kids, having friends over (the opposite of going to visit them and possessed of a completely different vibe <abbr title="In My Opinion">IMO</abbr>), taking a drive (car, bike, <abbr title="All Terrain Vehicle">ATV</abbr>, boat, whatever), reading books together, or reading <i>a</i> book to each other, playing games (video, board, cards, strip-whatever floats your boats), etc.

Hell, you could go to <i>dance lessons</i> together.

I mean, come on. If you and yours are actually inclined to have a good time, it's just not the case that a lack of any of "singing, dancing, acting" in high school should slow you down even a little bit. If it does, it wasn't the fault of a limited high school education, I assure you.

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