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 17, 2009

DEBATE TEAM: ARE THESE THINGS WORSE THAN PUBERTY?

1.) Closely identifying with the people you see featured on A&E's Obsessed.

2.) Being a person featured on A&E's Obsessed.

3.) Twitter.

4.) Jon and Kate plus stretching this whole 'almost celebrity' thing as far as it will go.

5.) Pregnant women in bikinis. Whatever, it looks really freaky.

6.) Pregnant women, period. Whatever, breed if you want, but the idea of a thing living inside you is also really freaky. Biological clock: not yet turned on.

7.) Seasonal allergies.

8.) Reading news stories ABOUT twitter.

9.) Lifetime's new program about a model cursed to come back as a fatty, Drop Dead Diva.

10.) Knowing, already, that you will watch Drop Dead Diva.
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1 comment:

  1. KarlaJuly 18, 2009 at 5:28 PM

    I would say being cast as the fat/unattractive/after character on Drop Dead Diva has got to be a feeling pretty close to puberty.

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