Comments on: She Had a Question, 1909 (3rd set)

By: Diane Peel

Diane Peel — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:56:30 +0000

And what WAS Helen’s trouble? Did she write again in any detail?

By: Diane Peel

Diane Peel — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:51:29 +0000

But I really want to know what happened to others, say Ethel D.?

Was she strong enough to send the lout on his way for a while when his rude behavior continued?

Did she relent when (and if) he promised to play nice? Did he do so? For a short season at least…

By: Diane Peel

Diane Peel — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 04:00:39 +0000

Yeah, I know my first comments were more ‘fitting,’ and the engaged couple would usually get it.
It’s just that we’re (betrothed children and me) at a weird place now. I am never entirely sure that something I say or do is not going to foul up the works for the next 30 years. SHOULD I write for advice?

Mostly though, I wanted to call Ashley my favorite daughter. I adore her reaction.

By: Clair

Clair — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:39:54 +0000

I’m surprised that the advice for Josie didn’t settle the questions about Cocoa and the WoW.

By: Eric Boysen

Eric Boysen — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:32:09 +0000

Ardis:

I also thought that the M.M.S. question had something to do with race. I wrote a comment that I lost when I accidently navigated away proposing what the questions might have been, but I didn’t have the energy to rewrite it.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:58:52 +0000

Your first comment was entirely in the spirit of this series of posts, Diane — we’ve had a lot of fun with the old advice, some of which makes us howl with laughter and some of which makes us wonder why advisers today can’t be as sensible!

By: Diane Peel

Diane Peel — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:03:52 +0000

I think (I do that-sometimes) I left the wrong impression here. I look with utmost favor on this engagement.

I love her fiance and she adores him.

I’d say I just didn’t want her staying home Friday night-but she’s not-she’s driving to Provo.

I dunno. Maybe I just want my favorite daughter to see all the options, so to speak.

By: Diane Peel

Diane Peel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:46:19 +0000

This is so perfect! Advice from the dust I can email to my newly engaged daughter. She’s at U of I (Moscow, Idaho) and her fiancee goes to at BYU Provo.

So he’s decidedly out of town. And he grew up in Moscow, so has oodles of old friends there…

By: Bookslinger

Bookslinger — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:22:32 +0000

Clark, I should have combined the two: “Until the ‘I-dos’ are spoken, it’s never too late to do comparison shopping.”

Or, one might also say that “comparison shopping” is by definition those comparisons done before the purchase is actually made.

-Books (still looking for an 8-cow wife on a two-chicken budget).

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:07:10 +0000

I’m wondering if that wasn’t a coded answer to “Where did blacks come from?” or some related question.