Grandma's advice

(1993 July, Parsons memoirs)
[Martha Parsons, my grandmother,] was always lots of fun, and I would stay with her while the rest went to the movies.  She could not stand them....  So she would give me money for a quart of ice cream and we would put our feet on the glowing coal stove and tell stories.  "Do the boys try to put their arms around you and kiss you and all that?" she would ask.  "No" I would answer, wondering how it would be.  "Well, they will!  And don't let 'em."  I said all right and we got on another topic.