Age-old advice: Word gets around about girl’s petting
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 20/12/2018 (2502 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
From Sincerely, Edan Wright, published in the Winnipeg Free Press on Dec. 28, 1958
Dear Miss Wright: A boy has made a big fool out of me. I dated a college fellow a month ago and we petted. I don’t know why I did it. I guess I got carried away by him.
Anyhow, he was going steady with another girl and he told her what I had done with him. I know the girl, and I considered her to be a good friend. But she spread the story about the petting to other kids.
And that’s not all. Whenever she sees me, she starts talking real loud so that I can hear her. How am I ever going to stop this?
— Puzzled
Dear Puzzled: Watch your step with other boys. And stay away from the girl and her steady.
There’s a good lesson in this experience: the boy didn’t make a fool of you, you made a fool of yourself.
You had no business dating a boy who was going steady with a friend. If you think your friend did you dirty in spreading talk about your petting, what do you think you did to her in dating and petting with her boyfriend?
As for the boy spilling the beans — you should know that boys talk and boast about the favours girls give them. And I’m sure you’re hep to this from gossip about other girls.