Jul 05, 2008 21:41
I will open this entry with a question, poised to whoever reads this:
Good god, were we all extremely obnoxious when we were 17-18 years old?
I know for a fact that I was no angel, when I went with Cristy, Nora, and Ana to see Titanic at the dollar theater and we would laugh and talk throughout the movie. The latter wearing paper Titanic hats and sneaking Taco Bell into the theater, while throwing lids like Frisbees (I missed out on a bit, eh?).
Tonight, Nick and I went to have Flanigans for dinner, more to Nick's insistence than anything. I wanted to stay home and relax. Less than 10 minutes later, my desire to sloth the night away was thoroughly justified in the form of a group of loud, rowdy teenagers. The Queen Bee, bounced on in and sat in a chair, not too far from Nick and I, proudly proclaiming, "Look! I have the Queen's chair!!!"
I sigh, and give Nick the, "Dude, I told you so" look. Not long after, the hostess comes and seats us and gets our orders for drinks and appetizers. Not long after, waiters are arranging tables for what seems like a large party.
Aw. Fuck.
The orgy of teens come and sit next to us. Still chatting loudly, only now they're wearing paper animal masks and taking pictures with their digital cameras. Not being old enough to order liquor, they order Shirley Temples and loudly brag this to each other, "Why do they call them Shiiirley Temmmples???" A chorus of "I don't know" follows and random proclamations of one of them wanting to fuck their waiter popped up (and I swear I wasn't straining to hear, this is shit I couldn't help hearing). They then starting to warble songs that came on from the jukebox as loud as they could. I never wanted to get out of there as quickly as I did tonight.
Maybe I'm turning into an old fart, but I seriously don't remember people our age being this obnoxious. I'm not saying people of our generation were saints. God, no. In fact, I just had a flashback, where I sat in the front of the school bus I went to and played Hanson and Jewel on full blast in a bus full of chongas (...that was awesome).
..But I don't remember being this big of a tool.
All this being said or typed, do you think you were obnoxious when you were a teen? What was the worst thing that you did?