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tabular_rasa) wrote2007-05-14 11:09 pm
tabular_rasa) wrote2007-05-14 11:09 pm
MY LAST POST AS A TEENAGER
AHHHHHHHHH I AM GOING TO BE OLD SOON.
This is the last post I will do as a teenager. I shall soon begin to smell like cabbage.
I HAVE NOT DONE THE FOLLOWING TEENAGERY THINGS:
Been grounded.
Had my car confiscated by my parents.
Been told to turn my music down by parents.
Listening to things with explicit lyrics for the sole purpose of pissing off my parents.
Actively rebelled against my parents, period.
Dyed my hair a funny color.
Dyed my hair at all.
Even layered my hair.
Gotten a piercing.
Gotten a tattoo.
Talked about the above for the sole purpose of pissing off my parents.
Smoked.
Smoked weed.
Shoplifted.
Been arrested.
Drunk-drove.
Been pulled over in a car.
Made-out in a car.
Had sex in a car.
Had sex. (I think that leaves me in about 10% of the American population. Thank you, Psychology of Adolescence textbook, for making me feel lame. "Sex is a rite of passage for nearly every American teenager," yeah, now I'm going to be stunted, sure, right . . . )
Had a date to prom.
Even tried to get a date to prom.
Lost my virginity after the prom.
Had a party while my parents were out and away.
Snuck out of the house.
Gone out with a boy my parents disapprove(d) of.
Ridden on a motorcycle with no helmet.
Ridden on a motorcycle.
Gone to a sock-hop.
Gone to the mall solely to "hang out."
Had more than four slices of pizza in one sitting.
Written a "Do you like me? Check one: Yes/No/Maybe" note.
Made up a gushy, retarded pet name for a boyfriend.
Written "Mrs. Last-Name-Of-My-Crush" on a folder or notebook.
Crushed majorly on a member of a band.
Cried at a concert.
Written fanmail to anyone.
Tried seriously to emulate a celebrity.
Tried seriously to emulate somebody popular.
Tried seriously to be popular.
Been popular.
Been put in a trashcan.
Been given a swirly.
Been beat up.
Given someone else a swirly, beaten someone else up, or otherwise bullied someone else.
Followed or even accepted the "rules" of adolescent hierarchy.
Had my period leak obviously in class.
Fallen totally asleep in class.
Insisted that "no one understands me" to excess.
Had much of an identity crisis.
I also didn't publish my book, yet. God damn it! )-:
There's always the next ten years . . .
This is the last post I will do as a teenager. I shall soon begin to smell like cabbage.
I HAVE NOT DONE THE FOLLOWING TEENAGERY THINGS:
Been grounded.
Had my car confiscated by my parents.
Been told to turn my music down by parents.
Listening to things with explicit lyrics for the sole purpose of pissing off my parents.
Actively rebelled against my parents, period.
Dyed my hair a funny color.
Dyed my hair at all.
Even layered my hair.
Gotten a piercing.
Gotten a tattoo.
Talked about the above for the sole purpose of pissing off my parents.
Smoked.
Smoked weed.
Shoplifted.
Been arrested.
Drunk-drove.
Been pulled over in a car.
Made-out in a car.
Had sex in a car.
Had sex. (I think that leaves me in about 10% of the American population. Thank you, Psychology of Adolescence textbook, for making me feel lame. "Sex is a rite of passage for nearly every American teenager," yeah, now I'm going to be stunted, sure, right . . . )
Had a date to prom.
Even tried to get a date to prom.
Lost my virginity after the prom.
Had a party while my parents were out and away.
Snuck out of the house.
Gone out with a boy my parents disapprove(d) of.
Ridden on a motorcycle with no helmet.
Ridden on a motorcycle.
Gone to a sock-hop.
Gone to the mall solely to "hang out."
Had more than four slices of pizza in one sitting.
Written a "Do you like me? Check one: Yes/No/Maybe" note.
Made up a gushy, retarded pet name for a boyfriend.
Written "Mrs. Last-Name-Of-My-Crush" on a folder or notebook.
Crushed majorly on a member of a band.
Cried at a concert.
Written fanmail to anyone.
Tried seriously to emulate a celebrity.
Tried seriously to emulate somebody popular.
Tried seriously to be popular.
Been popular.
Been put in a trashcan.
Been given a swirly.
Been beat up.
Given someone else a swirly, beaten someone else up, or otherwise bullied someone else.
Followed or even accepted the "rules" of adolescent hierarchy.
Had my period leak obviously in class.
Fallen totally asleep in class.
Insisted that "no one understands me" to excess.
Had much of an identity crisis.
I also didn't publish my book, yet. God damn it! )-:
There's always the next ten years . . .
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It's ok, I'm in that 10% with you...well, I would be, if I lived in the States. I'm sure it's almost the same in Canada, though.
Happy Almost No Longer A Teenager! =D
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(but okay...the sock hop? obviously NOT a rite of passage in recent years. though i admit that i have gone to one...but only in elementary school so that doesn't count.)
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I miss the good old days where your teenage coolness was defined by wearing a poodle skirt and drinking a malt and staying out to ten. I totally could have been cool in the '50s.
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I am also a semi-proud member of the 10% Club. And I matched with everything on your list except the "date to prom" stuff (although that was definitely not all it was cracked up to be) when I turned 20. Still do match with all those things, actually.
You have officially been alive for 20% of a century/ 2% of a millenium/ (4.38 times 10 to the -7)% of the Earth's life span to date. Just for context.
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We're all just stunted, I guess, then :-P We never went through our adolescent trying-on-of-rebellious-roles period, and so we're just going to have to go through a second adolescent in our middle age, now, or something, lol . . .
Yea, I feel not so old now!