The Older I get the Less I Can Stand Teenagers! (1 Viewer)

[Saint_Kyle]

I can't stand adults, because the other day one of them treated me disrespectfully. So now I look at adults as a whole as disrespectful people, because that's fair.

 

[RazorOye]

Teaching high school has made me much more tolerant of teenagers.

I don't see much difference in the attitudes from the time I was in high school - 15 years ago - and the students I am teaching there now.

All of my friends, though, who don't have contact with teenagers on a daily basis, are much less patient with them and their attitudes do reflect a certain curmudgeoness.

The vast majority of teenagers are not byproducts of the vile minority that most people think of when they hear the word "ZOMG TEENAGERS!"

 

[Scorpius the Allfather]

Good post, Mike...thanks for cheering me up after getting depressed over the "Body Measurements - How do you and your mate match up?" thread You, Joe, Drew and I are all around that same stage of life and yes, the "old" thing is just fine, minus the slower metabolism. I care a lot less about what other people think than I did years ago; making my family and myself happy is more important. BTW, I'm avoiding work right now, listening to Q-93 with your traffic reports mixed in, and thinking that we need to plan the draft get-together.

Teenagers....like 'em just fine, but without the attitude that I know nothing. I have no problem with them thinking they know it all, as long as they don't treat me like I'm stupid. And the pants hanging down to their knees with underwear showing...I truly don't care much about what teens wear and can rationalize the appeal of most styles, but that particular style drives me nuts. It cannot possibly be comfortable, and looks horrid. There, I'm officially a fuddy-duddy.

What I can't understand for the life of me about wearing your pants with your underwear showing is how that ever became a trend. It all started in jail where if you walked around like that, it meant that you were someone's sex toy. So how and why in the world did that become a fashion style?

 

[Richard]

I've got no problem with teenagers; it's those doggone kids in their 20s that drive me nuts.

 

[keepoursaints]

I've got no problem with teenagers; it's those doggone kids in their 20s that drive me nuts.

hey HEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYYYYY

 

[Saint_Kyle]

and honestly, I know that not all adults are stereotyping, disrespectful jerks that don't like me based on my age, but it sometimes seems like they are.

It really bothers me the way I am treated like garbage because I'm 16 years old. It disgusts me, I am just as or more ambitious, hard working, driven, and intelligent as/than most adults, but I get treated like a 2nd class citizen because of my age. To me, it's something that most adults really need to get over, and accept that I am not every other 16 year old, and can't control the things they do.

 

[robsmith32]

and honestly, I know that not all adults are stereotyping, disrespectful jerks that don't like me based on my age, but it sometimes seems like they are.

It really bothers me the way I am treated like garbage because I'm 16 years old. It disgusts me, I am just as or more ambitious, hard working, driven, and intelligent as/than most adults, but I get treated like a 2nd class citizen because of my age. To me, it's something that most adults really need to get over, and accept that I am not every other 16 year old, and can't control the things they do.

no you're not every other 16yr old... why you keep trying to defend yourself here?

an old saying that i recall hanging on my uncles wall... ... why don't you go ahead and move out and take on all the responsibilities of life as an adult while you're still a teenager and know it all. and we know nothing....

it's not that you aren't intelligent.. but with time comes experience, with experience comes wisdom(hopefully) for some that isnt' the case... you seem to learn from experiences, and learn from others as well. so take it as a complement...

there are several times some that I just wanted to slap upside the head and say step back and look at the big picture.. heck, sometimes i still need a piece of that.


things that i would have willfully done when younger, ain't know way i'd try now, i know better.

 

[robsmith32]

and honestly, I know that not all adults are stereotyping, disrespectful jerks that don't like me based on my age, but it sometimes seems like they are.

It really bothers me the way I am treated like garbage because I'm 16 years old. It disgusts me, I am just as or more ambitious, hard working, driven, and intelligent as/than most adults, but I get treated like a 2nd class citizen because of my age. To me, it's something that most adults really need to get over, and accept that I am not every other 16 year old, and can't control the things they do.

no you're not every other 16yr old... why you keep trying to defend yourself here?

an old saying that i recall hanging on my uncles wall... ... why don't you go ahead and move out and take on all the responsibilities of life as an adult while you're still a teenager and know it all. and we know nothing....

it's not that you aren't intelligent.. but with time comes experience, with experience comes wisdom(hopefully) for some that isnt' the case... you seem to learn from experiences, and learn from others as well. so take it as a complement...

there are several times some that I just wanted to slap upside the head and say step back and look at the big picture.. heck, sometimes i still need a piece of that.


things that i would have willfully done when younger, ain't know way i'd try now, i know better.

 

[Saint_Kyle]

It's not so much that I'm trying to defend myself. It is more that I am disgusted and sick of being treated different solely based on my age. If I can carry a decent conversation with someone they shouldn't talk down to me or act different towards me because I was born after them. All that matters is that I don't act in a way the disapprove of, but I am still treated like I do. I go out of my way to do things for people and it goes unnoticed because it must have been an accident or something, there is no way there is actually someone who is 16 years old and is a considerate decent human being. I go out of my way to treat others with respect regardless of any stereotype, whether they're 60 years old or 6 years old, whether they are black, white, Hispanic, Asian or anything. That isn't what matters. All that matters to me is that they respect me and I will respect them back. Is it too much to ask that I receive respect from elder people when I treat them with respect? All I want is to be treated the same way I treat them, not the way they've been treated by 16 year olds before. I've grown tired of being treated disrespectfully, not because I don't treat that person with respect, but because I am 16. It's really just rude.



To Rob, Don't take this as an attack or offensively, I have no problem with you at all. I am just trying to express the way I feel.

 

[MSUSousaphone]

Give it 6-8 years and you'll understand.

I can't stand geriatrics...you know, people over 40.

 

[Saint_Kyle]

I really doubt I will. I understand why you may dislike many people my age, but dislike them based on their actions. Don't dislike them based on their age. They do a lot of things that I don't approve of, but I cannot change that, and I also don't intend to try to change that because it is a losing battle

 

[MSUSousaphone]

How do you know we are doing it based on age alone? When did I say that's what I was doing? Sounds presumptuous...just like a teenager.

 

[robsmith32]

It's not so much that I'm trying to defend myself. It is more that I am disgusted and sick of being treated different solely based on my age. If I can carry a decent conversation with someone they shouldn't talk down to me or act different towards me because I was born after them. All that matters is that I don't act in a way the disapprove of, but I am still treated like I do. I go out of my way to do things for people and it goes unnoticed because it must have been an accident or something, there is no way there is actually someone who is 16 years old and is a considerate decent human being. I go out of my way to treat others with respect regardless of any stereotype, whether they're 60 years old or 6 years old, whether they are black, white, Hispanic, Asian or anything. That isn't what matters. All that matters to me is that they respect me and I will respect them back. Is it too much to ask that I receive respect from elder people when I treat them with respect? All I want is to be treated the same way I treat them, not the way they've been treated by 16 year olds before. I've grown tired of being treated disrespectfully, not because I don't treat that person with respect, but because I am 16. It's really just rude.



To Rob, Don't take this as an attack or offensively, I have no problem with you at all. I am just trying to express the way I feel.

what you speak of isn't related to age... all age groups have that problem in this culture.. too many me me me people. and not many that try to get we ahead..
you know, help a friend up the step, and in turn get helped later.. sometimes it stillw orks that way. but often even when you do help them, they forget ya later when it counts.. that's how you know whom your true friends are...

 

[robsmith32]

and MSU i don't like us over 40 curmudgeons either...

 

[fish321]

Ive pretty much run across every type of teenager there is. Most of the kids that work for me are teenagers. Some of the are just like everyone is talking about, rude, lazy and generally inconsiderate of anyone else. There are some though that I would trust with the keys to my store. Ive got one girl (18) and one guy (18) who work harder, care more, and do the right thing more often than the 25 to 40 yr olds that work for me. They even have gone so far as to tell me when they thought one of their frinds was stealing. I mean to end a friendship over a short time job because its the right thing to do is just really impressive to me. Dont get me wrong I think alot of this generation takes gangster rap as gospel instead of entertainment and try to live their lives by the songs but I wont loop em all in together because there are a few I will be sorry to see go off to college