Encyclopedias don't win wars. - Isaac Asimov

The fact of the matter is that young men lack skill and experience and are very likely to approach a girl as though she were a sack of wheat. It is the old man — suave, debonair, maturely charming — who knows exactly what to do and how to do it, and is therefore better at it.

In a rather simple way. It merely required the use of that much–neglected commodity – common sense.

Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind.