The Older I get the Less I Can Stand Teenagers!

[Sabine]

My 15 year old says stuff to me that, had I uttered those statements, would have ended my life. That's why being back at work is joyful; I can stay away from someone's protracted "development" without running the risk of his bodily injury.

My teenaged period never existed. I had two perennial teenagers as parents and spent much time living with their maturity issues, not to mention lack of money, mobility, and a homesetting cross between "The Simpsons" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". The statute of limitations obviously hasn't expired yet, because today I have one parent and one child who are maturationally interchangable.

Wow! I didn't see that coming. That surprises me.

I had just the opposite. My mom was 19 when I was born and I was #2 of 5. Before her 25th birthday and Dad's 26th birthday, they were raising their 5 kids and Dad's 3 teenaged brothers (Dad's mom died young). It seemed to me that my parents were born to be crisis managers. Either one could have run FEMA. Immaturity was never an option for them - and they didn't allow us that option either. Overall, that worked out best for us kids, but it had to be taxing for them (and other adults too) to deal with a house full of young teens believing we were ready to take on the world. I doubt being more mature made us as teenagers more likable.

 

[andyb33]

i feel like i'm obligated to post on this thread, but ehhhhh... i don't really care. (notice the lack of caring) LoLz OmG WhAtEvVvV

 

[skymike]

LoLz OmG WhAtEvVvV

Very good. A nice example of teenage "net lingo." Interestingly, there are numerous posters here over 30, who have not graduated from adolescent forms of expression--haha.

So how's it goin, Andy. Its nice to get a real live teenager to put in 2 cents. How's it going in beautiful Liberty, Tx.,? . .Did you go to the "Jubilee?" (my guess is, "'NO!") Remember, the dumber the festival name, the less likely that anything else is going on in such community, meaning numerous equally bored young women are drifting around. Next year, when you're 18, I'll tell you some pickup lines that didnt work for me in 1979.

You know?, when I was 17, I had no interest in living somewhere "beautiful." I wanted to be right here in the middle of a polluted, crowded, noisy, freak-infested, crack smoke hell-hole big city. I am living proof you gotta be careful what you wish for. I wanna go home.

I drive 400 times better than I did as a teenager, and believe it or not, much FASTER!

PS. Andy, why do you have Josef Stalin on your avatar? I sure hope you dont think communists are cool.

 

[Thorin]

I drive 400 times better than I did as a teenager, and believe it or not, much FASTER!

that's it, I'm calling the cops on you bro.

 

[skymike]

that's it, I'm calling the cops on you bro.

Shhhhhhh! SOUTHLAND22 is a real life Law man, and he hangs out here, and he doesnt take kindly to my kind. He'll bring me to justice for sure, if I dont lay low.

I fought the law and the law always won when I was a teenager. I have several traffic court wins as an adult.

Thank you law enforcement guys. We'd be in a real pickle without you putting yourselves on the line every day, and we dont even appreciate it most of the time.

 

[andyb33]

Very good. A nice example of teenage "net lingo." Interestingly, there are numerous posters here over 30, who have not graduated from adolescent forms of expression--haha.

So how's it goin, Andy. Its nice to get a real live teenager to put in 2 cents. How's it going in beautiful Liberty, Tx.,? . .Did you go to the "Jubilee?" (my guess is, "'NO!") Remember, the dumber the festival name, the less likely that anything else is going on in such community, meaning numerous equally bored young women are drifting around. Next year, when you're 18, I'll tell you some pickup lines that didnt work for me in 1979.

You know?, when I was 17, I had no interest in living somewhere "beautiful." I wanted to be right here in the middle of a polluted, crowded, noisy, freak-infested, crack smoke hell-hole big city. I am living proof you gotta be careful what you wish for. I wanna go home.

I drive 400 times better than I did as a teenager, and believe it or not, much FASTER!

PS. Andy, why do you have Josef Stalin on your avatar? I sure hope you dont think communists are cool.

Hey Mike. No I didn't make it to the Jubilee this year. I missed out on some good food, but other than that I'm not too worried about it, although I'm pretty sure some nice looking girls were there, but hey, it's not like i'll never see them. I'll just catch up with them when they go to the Super Wal-Mart like every other person with nothing to do. hah. (including myself) Oh, and, in a few months, I'll be more than happy to listen to your pick up lines. I'm sure in college, with some alcohol in the system of a few girls and your lines, I'll go far in this life.. haha

And yes, I have the desire to live in a polluted city, right now! I'm counting down the days until I graduate and move, to Austin or New Orleans. (Depending on where I go to school)
It's not that I can't stand the town, or I'm like a 15 year old girl, who "hates this place and never wants to come back because it's sooooo boring," I just want a change. Plus, there's nothing really here. I can't imagine moving back to Liberty, after living in a city. There's just not enough opportunities here, at least for what I want to do. Plus, I'm not a country boy or anything like that, so I'm not going to miss the whole rural thing at all! I've always felt like I belonged in New York, Chicago, Houston, etc...

And for the whole "communist" thing, I have Vladimir Lenin as my avatar mainly because I've just always been interested in Russia. I'm not a closet Communist at all. I love democracy! I do, somewhat, agree with some Communist ideas, but... I agree wayyyyy more with the ideas of democracy. Mainly because I feel that I work a lot harder than most people my age, and I want to be rewarded someday, and in Communism, we'd all just get paid the same... so where's the motivation? But yeah, I'm not a Communist. I promise.

 

[Optimus Prime]

There was an article I read in high school, it was about the 60s and hippies in particular. i dont remember what the article was called, or who wrote it or anything else about expect this one ting that always stuck with me.

It was something called the majority minority.

This is an extreme paraphrase but it went something like this. " I know that not all young people are hippies; but it certainly seems like they are."

I know that not all teenagers are self-absorbed, self-entitled, thin-skinned, disrespectful, lazy, rude, inarticulate and inconsiderate; but it sometimes seems like they are. sometimes it seems like they're everywhere

i had a teen incident at the store yesterday that made me madder than i had been in a long time. (it was at circuit city, which i one of my least favorite stores anyway)

 

[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.