I apologise in advance to all the teenagers on my friends list, but what I am about to say is for your own good. Really. Reading this post may possibly prevent you from being mocked, laughed at or otherwise embarrassed in your dealings with those older than yourself. Listen well and learn.
Do you know what is the single most funny thing any teenager can say to an adult? Do you know how you can reduce them to gales of mocking laughter in the space of five seconds? Do you know how you can make yourself look like a complete moron without even trying?
Just say this:
“Adults have no idea what teenagers are doing.”
Eight words. Eight simple words, and your reputation, your respectability and your intelligence are deflated quicker than a balloon meeting with an unfortunate accident with a hedgehog.
It really is the funniest thing any adult can hear, even an adult who’s only in her twenties. I could laugh all day, just from turning the phrase over and enjoying the idioicy of it from different angles. If someone actually said it to me in person, I really don’t believe I’d have the slightest chance of stopping myself from laughing in their face.
Seriously, where do teenagers like that think adults come from? Surely they have the brains to realise that adults were teenagers once, too. I know I was. And I was really an awful person. I was bad-tempered, opinionated and intolerant of stupidity. Fortunately, I grew out of it but the point is that I was there once. Just because I spent most of my teenage years in a book or in front of a computer doesn’t mean I wasn’t there.
Strange to say, every other adult in the world was a teenager, too. And they know exactly what teenagers do. Of course, now they have to face the fact that teenagers are doing those things with the help of the internet and other technological aids, but they’re still well aware of what’s going on.
Seriously.
They really didn’t just turn up one day, fully grown and completely ignorant of what happens between the ages of thirteen and nineteen, inclusive. They actually went through it themselves. They most likely did all those things that you think they’re ignorant of. And if they didn’t do them, they sure as hell thought about doing them (repeatedly, if possible) or knew people who had done them.
So please – save yourself the embarrassment and don’t ever tell an adult they don’t know what teenagers are doing. They know all about it and it’s even possible they did it better than you.
Do you know what is the single most funny thing any teenager can say to an adult? Do you know how you can reduce them to gales of mocking laughter in the space of five seconds? Do you know how you can make yourself look like a complete moron without even trying?
Just say this:
“Adults have no idea what teenagers are doing.”
Eight words. Eight simple words, and your reputation, your respectability and your intelligence are deflated quicker than a balloon meeting with an unfortunate accident with a hedgehog.
It really is the funniest thing any adult can hear, even an adult who’s only in her twenties. I could laugh all day, just from turning the phrase over and enjoying the idioicy of it from different angles. If someone actually said it to me in person, I really don’t believe I’d have the slightest chance of stopping myself from laughing in their face.
Seriously, where do teenagers like that think adults come from? Surely they have the brains to realise that adults were teenagers once, too. I know I was. And I was really an awful person. I was bad-tempered, opinionated and intolerant of stupidity. Fortunately, I grew out of it but the point is that I was there once. Just because I spent most of my teenage years in a book or in front of a computer doesn’t mean I wasn’t there.
Strange to say, every other adult in the world was a teenager, too. And they know exactly what teenagers do. Of course, now they have to face the fact that teenagers are doing those things with the help of the internet and other technological aids, but they’re still well aware of what’s going on.
Seriously.
They really didn’t just turn up one day, fully grown and completely ignorant of what happens between the ages of thirteen and nineteen, inclusive. They actually went through it themselves. They most likely did all those things that you think they’re ignorant of. And if they didn’t do them, they sure as hell thought about doing them (repeatedly, if possible) or knew people who had done them.
So please – save yourself the embarrassment and don’t ever tell an adult they don’t know what teenagers are doing. They know all about it and it’s even possible they did it better than you.
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