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, June 5, 2009

DEBATE TEAM: ARE THESE THINGS WORSE THAN PUBERT?


1.) Destination weddings that cost more than you make in a month and are in a location you would never spend time in by choice, but which you feel compelled to go to.

2.) Those lazy summer days...of 95% humidity.

3.) Shoulder pain.

4.) The sensation of a pill, swallowed without (enough) liquid, exploding in your throat.

5.) Harvard's graduating class predicted as 1/3 afflicted with swine flu on their 'special day.’

6.) When you’re so broke as an adult that your parents give you a pity allowance so you will be able to eat or transport yourself home in case of an emergency. 

7.) Having really long hair, not because it looks good on you or you particularly like it, but because frequent trips to any sort of salon are way outside your budget. 

8.) Realizing that, since you only ever get phone calls from about 3 different people in your life, you could seamlessly replace your cell phone with a couple of walkie talkies and save the $50 a month. 

9.) Going through Costco-sized quantities of junk food in 3 days.

10.) When really great girls have crappy boyfriends because they are attracted to ‘danger.’

2 comments:

  1. People who notice things like Pubert are worse than Puberty. Yes. I got defensive and I took it there.

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