


There is one way, and one way only, to stop being the fat kid and to start slimming down. Written to a TV station to complain about a particularly violent program? “Irving! Wear another puffy down vest or you’ll catch your death of cold!”Ģ. If you have problems about food, though, you cannot solve them by deciding to never eat again. Just the picture here, drink in Milady’s MC Escher pants: If you are a very short girl: Wear the styles that will not accentuate your shortness? Not wear ridiculously high heels? Not play it cutesy? If your father is dead, found one or more men you like to be with and talk to?ģ. A father is a person who isn’t around, sometimes, because he’s dead.Ī father is a ghastly drunken gargoyle with no legs and breath like a wind tunnel full of rotten eggs that SUPPORTS THIS FAMILY YOUNG LADY! WHO ELSE IS GOING TO KEEP YOU IN PLAID KNEE SOCKS? Now get yer old man another pack of Luckies.Ĥ. Sometimes he’s not around because he’s divorced from your mother. Spoilers from your future adult-self: Drinking is nothing like a maypole.Ī father is a person who is sometimes not around the way you wish he were. Spend some time talking to old people?ĭrinking is something like a maypole- which is a bright pole with many different colored streamers hanging down it. Get involved with other people’s feelings?ħ. Tried not to feel like a social outcast?Ī good way to handle the problem you think is boredom is to recognize that for various reasons there are some people and things that you have negative feelings about, that you just don’t enjoy as much as you used to. No worries, Jimmy! You can keep thinking your thoughts about Robert Redford and his magnificent golden wingèd hair!ĩ. You don’t get it from thinking sexy thoughts or anything like that. That is the one that accompanies the entry on “Unhappiness”. Well, except it turns out that “wonderful cartoons” actually translates as NIGHTMARE INDUCING ILLUSTRATIONS OF HIDEOUS TROLL-DEMONS: Go ahead and click the link, I’ll wait for the flashbacks to stop…) are here to address your concerns with True-or-False quizzes for each topic, so you can make sure that you’re all normal and stuff. Warner ( Love Comes to Anne!) and Ann Reit ( Dream Boy, a book that graced the shelf of literally every Woman of a Certain Age reading this. Well, the good news is that at the end of the turbulent 1970s, all of ‘Teendom is still only experiencing 26 problems, which conveniently correspond to the letters of the alphabet, from “Acne” to “Zest”. What’s bugging you? What’s making your life impossible?įollow the handy checklist of suggestions for each of the A to Z problems, and your life can be easier- and lots more fun! Oh, what is lurking behind that nondescript (but groovy!) cover? The copy on the back promises:
