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 12, 2009

DEBATE TEAM: ARE THESE THINGS WORSE THAN PUBERTY?

1.) Weeding through scams during your online job search.

2.) Job searches in general.

3.) The amount of money spent by you when other people get married.

4.) When a guy guilts you into giving him your phone number because he insists he just wants to be friends and you're stuck next to him on a bus for hours so you can't just blow him off and run away. Plus you know he'll probably try calling you on the spot to make sure you didn't give him a fake number.

5.) Not being creative enough to think of a fake number on the spot when some lame guy asks you for your phone number.

6.) When a lame guys ask you: "Hey, I'm new to the area. Are there any fun nightspots you can recommend?" Because A.) You don't have an answer to this if you spend your Friday nights watching Supernanny like I do and B) You know this is going to turn into some kind of uninvited date request.

7.) Spending your summers avoiding the sun because of fear of wrinkles.

8.) The first time you realize you are in your 20s and actively losing collagen around your mouth and already well on your way to Wrinkletown.

9.) When guys are 26 but could pass for 43.

10.) When guys are 26 but could pass for 14.

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