Your Teen Years!!

As a Teenager, I was---

  • Pretty good

    Votes: 18 35.3%

  • A trouble-maker

    Votes: 5 9.8%

  • Good one day and into mischief the next

    Votes: 12 23.5%

  • A handful

    Votes: 10 19.6%

  • An angel compared to most teens

    Votes: 6 11.8%

  • Normal (whatever that meant back then)

    Votes: 12 23.5%

  • A barrel of laughs

    Votes: 6 11.8%
  • Total voters
    51
Words cannot express how glad I am to not be a teenager any longer.

There's a great line in one of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books - an early one, I believe - that goes something like, "H@ll is being 14 and stuck in junior high for eternity."

ROFL at that one!
 

✔None of the above, I was told a few , ok lots of times in the last few hours Anything but none of the above would fit.
Never ever looked for problems, things just sort of happened. I was an altar boy.... for a while ...lol
 
I spent my teen years hoping to get out of my teen years and starting my life. Just wanted at 18 being glad to have just get started out of my military family life moving so often that it was crazy. But, of course, life doesn't always turn out the way you expect. But it was still way better.
 
None of the choices fit me. My parents were very religious and I did everything they didn't want me to: Smoke, drink, stay out late with girls, etc. Then I got a motorcycle when I was 19 and crashed twice when I was 21, although I was married by then. I'm sure it drove my mom crazy.

My parents never said anything to me about most of it, probably fearing that if they did it would just drive me farther away. But it all worked out in the end.
 
I landed in the 17.2% bracket... an angel.

I remember my mom and dad bragging it up all the time about how they never worried about me.

Seems like centuries ago, but at the time my parents words made me feel proud.
 
treeguy64 said:
How'd you turn out, as an adult? You didn't hustle, so you had no ambition? You were a bad student, so you don't value education? You were a follower, not a leader? I'm seriously interested. Did you accomplish what you wanted, in life, or did you lack any desire to accomplish anything? All asked, with due respect.
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Oh God. Shut up!
 
Lethe200 said:
Words cannot express how glad I am to not be a teenager any longer.

There's a great line in one of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books - an early one, I believe - that goes something like, "H@ll is being 14 and stuck in junior high for eternity."

ROFL at that one!
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The playwright George Bernard Shaw succinctly puts it, "Youth is wasted on the young." An acerbic quote, and wryly funny. It points to a perspective one comes by later in life, when so many simple things are harder to do and enjoy, that young people who complain are out of place when they do so.
 
Silverfox said:
I would say for my parents I was a handful. I can pretty much sum up my teen years with two words(the two B's) boys and books. I was quite the scholarly type through school and always in my books and studying, but what was my downfall was boys. It drove my parents crazy. I think from the age of 13 to 17 I had a different crush every other week and I can't even count how many boyfriends that came and went. My dad went from dark hair to grey in those years. :)
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That was me too. I blame it on the boys. I grew up in FL and when we moved from one place to a beach town..........that was it. Everyone was the same way.
 
Aunt Marg said:
ROFLMAO!

You know how most pools have a deep end? Life pushed me over the edge and into deep end. :giggle:
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From what you have written about your family life, you held a very responsible job at a very young age helping your mom by caring for your siblings so I can honestly see how she considered you a ‘God sent.’ I bet that must have built character and then to have 6 of your own?😳 Thats a lot of commitment and very commendable. You also didn’t cut corners. No paper diapers for your kids. They had hand washed fabric diapers that got hung on the clothes line to dry. That’s work and I think it’s the most important work life has to offer so I’m actually very proud of you.
 
WHOA!

Wonder where the Silverfox went too?

Reading this thread & read her reply,,, huh????

My teenage years revolved around my horse, books.
Trying to figure out what I wanted to do in life .

My mother was taking care of my bed ridden grandfather.
His mind had started to wander, having prostate surgery didn't help it.

Guess that why I tell hubby ,,'every time you have to be 'put out ' for surgery a 'few brain cells die.'

My father was busy with caring for farm , what animals we had.
Worked in steel mills. sometimes drove school bus.
 
Keesha said:
From what you have written about your family life, you held a very responsible job at a very young age helping your mom by caring for your siblings so I can honestly see how she considered you a ‘God sent.’ I bet that must have built character and then to have 6 of your own?😳 Thats a lot of commitment and very commendable. You also didn’t cut corners. No paper diapers for your kids. They had hand washed fabric diapers that got hung on the clothes line to dry. That’s work and I think it’s the most important work life has to offer so I’m actually very proud of you.
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Boy, do I feel on top of the world this morning thanks to your words, Keesha! :love:

You really made my day!!!

You tooted my horn so well I'm going to stay quiet (LOL), but I thank you so kindly for your words. 🤗🥰
 
SetWave said:
There's no option for me, a miserably confused and lonely boy hiding behind humor. :confused:
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The only important thing to remind yourself of is that you are appreciated and loved by many here.

Keep on - keeping on, SetWave!

Warm and squishy hug just for you this morning. 🤗
 
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