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, July 3, 2009

DEBATE TEAM: ARE THESE THINGS WORSE THAN PUBERTY?

1.) Getting stuck walking behind an old person on the sidewalk. It's rude to bypass them and hurry along but walking at their pace can be excrutiating.

2.) When you know so much celebrity gossip that your family turns to you to clarify details of scandals that happened even before you were born.

3.) Realizing that you are actually a crappy cook - not trying to be modest here - just a horrible, disgusting food maker.

4.) When the highlight of your year is when someone buys you a juicer.

5.) Directing all of your perfectionism and bossy-ness into controling who uses your new juicer and how because you don't have a more appropriate outlet.

6.) working on july 4th

7.) Not bringing alcohol to work WITH you on july 4th

8.) the sound leather furniture makes when you sit on it wrong

9.) The fact that it is now legal to carry concealed weapons in arizona bars

10.) All the jokes about being "loaded" that are going to come out of that law...

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