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, January 29, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are These Things Worse than Puberty?

1.) Having to be careful of what websites you visit because you're at work.

2.) Making eye contact repeatedly with an ugly guy on the subway.

3.) Those last 5 minutes at the end of the day where you aren't doing anything productive but you have to stick around so your boss doesn't see you running out of the office.

4.) The fact that Macaulay Culkin is almost 30.

5.) John Edwards the politician.

6.) John Edwards the man.

7.) How damned hot James Franco is.

8.) Being incapable of enjoying "relaxing" time because you feel like you OUGHT to be doing something worthwhile.

9.) Commercials that target women with stereotypes that should have gone out of ad-man style 50 years ago.

10.) The coffee shakes

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