Show I L LYNN MINTON REPORTS: FreshVois 'Why did you stand n:2 up? 18 Monet a Williams 17 Maureen Webb 18 Willie I Smith 14 Sarah Cates Robert O Bozeman 15 and Tasha R Richardson 17—all of Lakeside High School in Atlanta Ga—got into Robert made a statement many considered outrageous: 1 1 7 Robot If I'm -- - v- supposed to go out with a girl one night and I gand her up and she calls "Why'd you stand me upr I t I won't admit that I really forgot I'll say something like "Well I thought you were going to call and I waited and you didn't call so I came by your house and you weren't there" That's not lying It's making sem feel bettet You really were going to go but it's their fault Men they end up thinking "Yeah he's right I did go to the store He must've called when I went to the store" They feel better because they didn't really get stood up Coo I wouldn't want anyone ! trying to console me when I knew they'd stood me up! Anyway I'd be like "You should've waited at my house” Or "You should've come back again" Or "You should have called me" Iu time t ' IT ctij ' - Durap him! When they're saying "I swear I catne by your house" You know when someone lies to you lobett No you don't Kinn I don't know why you would ask a girl out in the first place if you don't want to go out with her W Sometimes i guys don't ask 1 girls out Girls ask guys And at that moment '61 he takes into 1 consideration how she would feel if he says "No I don't want to go out with you" But when it comes time to go out r TEMN YAWS CI Eng Misr le mod bed--boa-mee he has changed his mind drastically He doesn't want anything to do with the person Salk I would be a 1 lot more mad if a L 41r guy said "yes" and Men stood me up I than if he said And even "no" A tv ' more mad if be lied to me Having me wait for him on a Friday night! Ijust think that is so rode nowt wouldn't ask a guy out But if I did I'd rather know the truth And it gets back to school if he's going around telling all his friends "I just don't want to go out with this girl—how do I get out of this?" 'Cause schools are such a soap opera And then everyone knows he stood you up And they go "We knew but we didn't want to tell you" Oooli! F L Robert You say it would make you feel better if the guy just told you he didn't want to go out But if he did would you go out with him the next week? I never said I didn't want to go out with the girl I just said on that particular night I forgot And I'm not saying I didn't feel bad about it Sarah: Then you should tell the girl "Oh I'm so sorry I forgot" Instead of lying Robert She'd get mad if you told her you forgot about her But if you give her an excuse I'll bet you any amount of money you could go out with the same girl next weekend HI confessed and just told you "Yeah I stood you up I forgot I went bowling with the guys" Would you go out with me next week? Serail: Yes I would I know I'd be mad But if I could see that a guy really was sorry and really forgot and really still wanted to go outOf course I'd put him on a major guilt trip rd go "If you ever do that And if he forgot the next again" weekend and used that same excuse STCS-- MOE tywol2wka IE? etMI US YOLli at mime mell—piroonal malls regmUdy 15 Army Crute a spirited conversation after kraw: He'd be i ! WI histatyiaglee with you Totally There are guys who've done that to me though and I didn't break up with them And I probably wouldn't in the future—because I'd be afraid of like losing them Would I want to hold on to somebody who did that? No but I don't Want tO be without anyone you know? You need someone' do agree with her But I just don't know if! could do that myself People say that they would do it but when it comes right down to it you don't know if you would ) I think it depends on the two people involved A person can take just so much right? You might stand one girl up three times and she might go out with you the fourth time But another girl you might stand up one time and she'll never talk to you again Of course if a girl likes you a lot—like she worships the ground you walk on—she will do anything to keep you until she has had enough So you have to see: How much does this girl like me and how much do! like her? Willvirl Dint It would take more than just a little convincing for me to go out with a guy again if he stood me up because I'd be so scared that he'd do the same thing again Maybe it's because I don't trust males that much When you've been hurt you put your guard up you protect yourself Tad I've learned 1 my lesson What L(n you do if you're 4C unsure is you set VA1AJe-up two or three dates for that night I and if one comes through you tell the others "Well something came up" I've put my all on the line before and it's gotten walked on so!I protect myself Moo OAS Orowd owl mot and& f Wind tbalea qtn Ein14 Now York NM co mamma" it damn When you're in a nice FeS01013111 and you bite kw something that tames absolutely horrale int do you do to lake it out poperly? "You don't 'have to - ' — announce it— 002ing uP on tiz tatie and screaming at the tip of your lungs 4011 my God is food is so gross! rm going So &el' and then spitting it all over die lace Just push the food into a nspkin with your totcue"--ftar- da Want Lit Cc2ao C2a Eke z- "Yza cut drop rTh -- N r Your Intim ' lbenovIZe you are down there picking it ttp you can spit 7ep the food out and no one will see you at all" —Cart Lascastar 13 embed Ca 1 c 1 -- 0 Duras 13 "You could pretend to sneeze into a handkesdief but actually spit the food into g"— are Van Ca W-11- 2 you are in the nonsmoking section of a restaurant and you smell smoke fivm a table in the smoking section is it appropriate to go up to a personal that table and ask hint to put out his cigarette? "No!! That person has every right to smoke there I quit five years ago but I feel that adult smokers are being discriminated against Nonsmoking sections are ineffective so the only solution is smoking and nonsmoking restaurants"—Cosla Km SS Radom ea - Send us your etiquette questions 101634166 mid pines Mobilo daytime ahem mimber PAGE A MAY 5 1101 MADE AMOK |