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

Thursday, December 10, 2009

P.E. : Being Incredibly Tired from Umbrella-Carrying is Worse than Puberty

Now before you start judging, let it be known that I have been sick the past couple of days. Maybe not "stay home from work" sick, or "running a fever sick" or "immediately distinguishable from the allergies you get, frequently" sick, but sick nonetheless...with a head cold.

That said, I'm fairly certain that even a minor amount of upper body strength would have allowed me to get through the walk from hell (read: from the grocery store to my house, umbrella in hand against the driving rain) without the cramping and all-over weakness I managed to wrangle.

Winds were strong, rain was wet, and something I was determined wouldn't soak my baguettes, wrecking another several dollars worth of food, and I was...panting, quickly.

Seriously, if I didn't weigh...enough, I would have assumed I was going to be whipped up into the air. Another person, however, might have assumed this trip was annoying, but not particularly difficult. Who can possibly ever know, really?

Re-entering my house, not soaked, but trembling, I only managed to squeak "benny...help!" before basically dropping my grocery purchases in a heap.

Perhaps I should reconsider my total avoidance of strength training? Naw...

-Posted by Jilly

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