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

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

SCIENCE: Travel-Induced Indigestion is Worse than Puberty

As the three of you who read this know, I was traveling to a wedding over the weekend, with flights at 6 AM going in both directions, just to add a further dash of misery.

That 6 AM is bad enough in itself, but it much further exacerbates another of the banes of air-travel: the most-of-vacation indigestion that almost inevitably seems to follow.

It takes different forms; some people, no doubt, spend part of their trip running to the bathroom over-frequently, the time in the air having left their guts frantic. Others, I'm told, may spend their entire vacation without that pressing need, a problem of mounting proportions. Still others may have a pepto-bismol commercial start-up in their interiors during and after flight; bloating, gas, cramps, and heartburn duking it out for the upper hand.

I'll pretend I have a shred of shame left and not share with you which of these camps I fall into.

Point being, at a time when, likely enough, you want to feel free and easy, be it for the business trip, vacation days, or stomach-pinching-strapless-dress-wearing wedding you're traveling to reach, your insides are, at least for the first day or so, in total revolt(ing).

-Posted by Jilly

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