I Hate It When This Happens.....

These two gems are from the batch of letters I'm answering this week. Names have been changed, but there's no way I'm clever enough to make up the situations:

Dear Heather:

Thank you for your letter. You wrote that your friends at school say you’re so popular and lucky and that everyone loves you. This is true, but it’s starting to get so annoying. People are always following you and wanting to be next to you. Sometimes they even follow you home. You said you are so annoyed sometimes, you feel as if you want to scream. You asked what you should do.

I've found that joining MathCounts helps eliminate unwanted popularity.

Dear Trishelle:

Thank you for your letter. You wrote that there’s a boy in your class who likes you, but you don’t like him. You like someone else. This boy even tries to hug you during lunch. But you don’t want to break his heart, saying that you don’t love him. You asked what you should do.

Take it! Take another little piece of his heart, now baby. Love lessons are best learned early.