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, October 30, 2009

DEBATE TEAM: Are These Things Worse Than Puberty?

1.) Getting really excited about a Halloween costume only to realize you don't have any actual plans for Halloween.

2.) Finding yourself planning birthday parties for your kids even though you don't even have a boyfriend yet, let alone a child.

3.) Spending your lunch break at work going to a local candy store to buy a stash which you don't plan on sharing with anyone.

4.) The fact that celebrities picking out pumpkins is considered news nowadays.

5.) When you're walking down the street and you overhear a conversation among a group of 9 year old boys who think they are very cool and adult and one of them turns to the others and says: "Don't you think indigo is the sexiest color?"

6.) Shelf-stable meat products

7.) Multi-colored patchwork leather coats

8.) Cutoff jean shorts where the pockets stick out beneath the cutoff point

9.) Crappy CGI commercials for local companies

10.) The music they pipe through the speakers at grocery stores

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