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Show LISTENING and LIVING by Tammy Thompson Christmas card with an initialed handkerchief enclosed. This will set the pace for their gift-giving which might appropriately be candy or a corsage. Boy friends won't be "two-timed" any more than girls will, so I suggest you treat the gentlemanly FOURSOME as boy - friend acquaintances ac-quaintances during the Christmas rush. Then comes NEW YEAR'S EVE. Me, oh my, what a problem! That is the night every boy wants his special date by his side. You, no doubt, have a "favorite" among the four but the law of average probably won't permit him to be the "first" to ask you for a New Year's Eve date. Let's assume you accept the first invitation proffered, proffer-ed, and should you be asked for another date that same night, that you simply say: "I'm sorry, I already al-ready have a date for that evening but I do jiope' you'll. invite me again ag-ain soon. Happy New Year to you. just the same! " After a few date turn-downs, the ! Foursome will become a Threesome; Three-some; and the Threesome, a Twosome; Two-some; and finally, the "one-and-only!" " Tammy Thompson Dear Tammy: Christmas is coming and I'm in a traffic jam with four boy friends. Most girls would revel in having four boy friends but I'm worried how to keep them all happy hap-py during Christmas holidays! How can I see them all without some interference? Then comes New Year's Eve, also! I don't know which boy I like best ... I like each one best in a certain way. My folks live in a . Small town nearby and I plan to spend Christmas Christ-mas Day with them, but I'd like to come back to the city to my apartment Christmas nite. Would it be proper to invite the one with the real ritzy car to have Christmas Christ-mas Eve supper with us at home so I can get a way home and then have the other one with a car come get me Christmas night and bring me back to the city? But what about the other two? "Foursome" Worrier Dear Foursome Worrier: Perhaps you're worrying in "quadruplicate" with that much basis for worry. But since you're "playing the field" and justly worried, wor-ried, you'd better keep a score-card score-card for each. Have you asked yourself this question: Are they all boy friend "acquaintances," or is each a bo-nafide bo-nafide "boy friend?" By answering this question, perhaps you can decide de-cide which one is to spend Christmas Christ-mas Eve with you. However, BEWARE, BE-WARE, you may get fooled since you're not going steady. Very often boys are just as shy as girls when Christmas rolls around, and especially es-pecially if they don't have a steady job. No doubt, the one with the "ritzy car" vvill be around. He seems to have spending money as well as transportation. Now, let's discuss how YOU are going, to remember each' of your boy friend acquaintances because YOU aren't going STEADY either. This could be a financial burden if you take it too seriously, i My suggestion, sug-gestion, is - that a week before Christmas,' you mail each one a |