The Truth About This Special Time In Your Life

According to what we remember from pamphlets geared towards 6th-grade girls, puberty is regarded as one of the most awkward and scary stages in a person’s life. It’s a time of horrifying physical transformations, scary new feelings, and growing interest in activities that you are still not old enough to engage in legally. Common symptoms of puberty include: braces, frizzy hair, baby fat, having a crush on 8th grader Steve Julius, blinding body odor and lame extracurricular interests like the violin or Bedazzling.

However, if personal experience has taught us anything, it's that there are experiences in life far more awkward, scary and pathetic than puberty. Here is a list of things that are:


WORSE THAN PUBERTY

Friday, February 27, 2009

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) Having the stall door of the bathroom opened on you accidentally.

2.) Spending your Friday night in watching USA originals...regularly.

3.) Talking to your cats in full sentences.


4.) Not being able to afford health insurance.

5.) Wearing too-small shoes because, despite having large feet, you can't admit to that last half-size, not even to yourself.


6.) Dating a guy you don't even get along with just because he kind of resembles someone who dumped you two years earlier.

7.) Realizing that just 1 year out of college, there are already classmates of your making $100,000 more than you will ever earn.

8.) Being a well-educated and independent woman but rethinking whether or not would be really all that terrible if you became a Gold Digger.

9.) Getting take out from restaurants and eating it at home in front of the TV because you can't afford to leave tip.

10.) Realizing it's about time to shave, not because you have a big date coming up, but because it would be too humiliating if something happened to you and an ER doctor were to see your exposed body.

2 comments:

  1. I think 3, 4, 7, and 10 are all worse than puberty. The rest are all just bad...but worse than getting zits on the day that you were really planning on finally talking to Steve Julius in 3rd hour? Doubtful.

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  2. Hmmm. These are tough. I think some of these things in and of themselves aren't worse than puberty but their implications definitely are. For example, not being able to afford basic health care. Take that a step further and you've got a convincing case.

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