“I grew up in Pensacola, home of the Blue Angels and the Navy flight schools and local women were all over those fly boys! A new school teacher with decent looks had a 50% chance of not finishing her school year contract because she would snag her a flight student. Remember the movie “An Officer and a Gentleman”? That’s one reason I moved to San Francisco after college – less competition.”

Actually, in San Francisco, a lot less competition. A straight man in San Francisco who cannot get a woman either isn’t trying, or has some really remarkable bad qualities about him.

One of the few times I’ve openly whistled at a woman was in SF, coming up from the subway, seeing an almost perfect specimen of the fairer sex. To my complete surprise, she turned around, ans said, “Thank you. That’s the first time in ten years someone has whistled at me in this neighborhood.” If not for being happily married, I would have taken that as a great beginning….