#6: Asking Mutual Friends for Intel Like a Detective
From slyly passing a note to your BFF during algebra to tasking them with saying nice things about you in front of your crush, friendships weren’t just platonic partnerships: They were fact-finding missions. The intel derived from this detective work was indispensable; after all, we had no way of knowing whether a crush hung out at Virgin Records or Sam Goody unless someone told us.
