I knowed better than to blow the horn. I know her mother and dad would both be out on me. And I think that’s right. Well that’s cheap for you boys to go up and blow the horn for the girl to come out. If you don’t think enough of her to go in and talk to her, and bring her out, and talk to her mother and dad, you ain’t…you oughtn’t to be with her anyhow. She…That’s right. Go be a man. So I walked up on the door, and I thought, “I will stay outside tonight.” And I happened to get to thinking.

Life Story, 1952-07-20, Hammond, IN, §172