Q - Dear Annabelle, I want to ask out this girl and i don't know what to say, she is very nice. But is going out with some other kid who flirts with everything known to man! Please send me some tips. A - Dear Mike, Well, youâre 13, so this isnât life and death stuff and itâs actually a pretty good opportunity for you to watch how the other guy gets the girls.......not to copy what he does, Îcause most of it is probably pretty fake, but to notice how it is that is works at all......âcause it DOES work. See, in life, you donât have to like something in order to notice what itâs structure is. Actually, everything is mathematics, (equations), when you stop to think about it, and this fellow has discovered a formula that equals the payoff he wants. You can do it too....but you have to have all the elements in place to duplicate his results. You are, essentially, in a big laboratory called Îlifeâ........trying one thing and another and keeping notes on what works and what doesnât. (Go back to the first page and read ăThe Rules For Being Humanä. Check with your friend to whom I just sent an answer or look into one of the other adolescent letters for the HELP formulae. Youâll be fine.......ever watch ÎHappy Daysâ? Each of the characters is different, but every one of them wants to the Îthe Fonzâ .....heck, EVERY one wants to be Îthe Fonzâ. Weâd ALL like to be cool, but each of us has different gifts........life would be quite boring if we were all alike. Look, the world is full of girls and there are enough to go around. If you spend some time reading all of the letters to adolescents over the past year, youâll have a passle of information to see you through most everything....including stuff that youâre, (probably), bright enough NOT to do. Have fun! - Annabelle