Would this work?

As I have said before I have a fondness for advice columns. They are my daily news guilty pleasure, akin to the horoscope for daily fun with a dash of usefulness if your open to let it in. A a staple of the advice column is the single women complaint columns. You know what I'm talking about because they are in everything from Savage Love to Dear Abby...the painful, "Where are the decent men" letters or my favorite letters the, "I'm so fantastic, yet I can't seem to find anyone who appreciated my fantasticness! What to do?"

Now, on more than one occasion as a response the single woman dating complaints letter, Dear Margo has given a piece of advice that seems very quaint, old school, and would have worked a decade ago...maybe...but would probably not work now. If you want to meet quality men go to a hardware store on a Friday night. Ummm, maybe it's just me, but I would feel VERY sketchy if I went to troll for guys in a hardware store. For one thing, why the hell waste my Friday night in a Home Depot? I have no real home improvement needs myself and feel that any contrived guy trolling is counter productive and not really helpful for me. Another issue is a lot of guys in a hardware store are married picking up supplies for weekend work. According to Dear Margo there are loads of single male homeowners trying to find Ms. Right in the hardware store. Apparently Margo is NOT living in the DC metropolitan area. Maybe in Iowa this tactic works, but I think it's odd advice.

BTW, despite the Frog Pond reference FroggerGirl didn't write this letter. I may have moments of lament over my single status, but so far I've been able to deal with it without writing Dear Margo...plus the author is like 4 years younger than me. If she thinks it's tough now, just wait a few years! ;-)