"Spring is the time of year when a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." This love includes cars, sports, and the outdoors; girls are forgotten.

While girls are batting their Maybelline eyes and swinging their tan legs to the rhythm of the teacher's lecture, boys are shuffling their feet, cracking their knuckles, and forever gazing out the window. This restless state they suffer can be blame don only one thing, spring fever.

Actually, the spring season's love statistics show a sharp decline in infatuations, mad crushes, uncontrollable winking, heart flip‑flops, and general palpitations. The reason for this decline is that boys' minds are filled with thoughts like, "who made the most home runs at practice last night," or "Dick's shooting in the 80's this season," or even "the Easter bunny will be here soon; I have to start coloring some eggs."

Girls, however, this season are thinking about the same thing they thought of all winter, and fall, and summer, and last spring ‑ boys