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, March 19, 2010

DEBATE TEAM: Are these things worse than puberty?

1.) The fact that all my favorite shows are on Bravo (as opposed to PBS or the history channel).

2.) When your must-watch show for the week is "Millionaire Matchmaker."

3.) Seriously considering signing up as part of the "Millionaire Matchmaker" dating pool (on the poor side though, not as one of the millionaires).

4.) Having to pretend that you have actual professional goals in your life during job interviews or application essays.

5.) When the only professional goal you can come up with in life is "to be Oprah-rich."

6.) Poppy seeds between your teeth - why even sprinkle them on things? They're minefields!

7.) Books with the movie-still cover.

8.) How amazing Alec Baldwin is.

9.) Tastes that teeth-brushing can't eradicate.

10.) Knowing that, because you write incredibly black humor, your friends and family are often more uncomfortable than proud to see your bylines.

1 comment:

  1. I see your poppy seeds and I raise you blueberry skins.

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