I live in a University town. Every September we get a huge influx of students. Truth be told it feels like our little city is being taken over by 18 and 19 year olds. You can almost smell the extra hormones in the air.
As I watch these babies strut around with their new found freedom I found myself suppressing a quiet scream or twelve. Usually it starts with…You idiot!
Let me explain.
Young thing. When you start out the year Yes, it feels like you have the world on the string and nothing can hurt you, this does NOT mean you should get ridiculously drunk downtown and run in and out of traffic without your shirt on. Sigh. Your Mama would not be proud.
Little one. When you go grocery shopping at the beginning of the year, you feel like you have the freedom to go crazy and buy anything and everything you want! The best cuts of meat, brand name everything! Quick, get that in check, because I guarantee by the end of the year you will be living off of soup and pasta. Hope you like Kraft Dinner!
You know that kind of geeky guy that you keep shooting down and being just a wee bit rude to? BIG mistake. One of these days, most likely the night before the biggest assignment of your life is due, that sweet little laptop of yours is going to crash. You are going to wish you were a little sweeter to Mr. Tech Whiz.
Oh one more. A long shirt with a belt. This does not make it a dress. Put on some pants.
You want to survive University life? It’s easy….use the brains your Mama gave you.
All true. All true. AND, you’re gonna wanna marry that geeky guy someday too.
Boy I’m glad I’m past all that! But, now I have children to worry about!
Smiles. I’m in a college town too – I am surrounded by BABIES. I couldn’t possibly have looked that young when I was in college! 🙂
this is hysterical! really? drunk and topless? HAHAHAHA!
If only they would listen!
As I sat there laughing my way through this post, I realized that….uh, well, that was me, like 20 years ago.
Sad but true. All of it, so true.
LOL! How true!
Happy Wednesday!
So true, I lived in a college town for several years and would laugh at the same types of things.
How true! Also: Miss Skinny Minny Toothpick – enjoy all that fast food & sugary alcoholic drinks now, ’cause, trust me, once you hit 30 it really will catch up with you!
Oh, to be young and foolish…
Come by before you get too mad at brainless college students…
Oh that is all so TRUE! I loved this post. From your fingers to their ears! They will feel this pain in due time.
We too live near a big college and every year when the new crop of freshman show up it makes me realize how old I’m getting…they look like such babies.
Sigh. Was that me a mere 22 years ago?
Yes.
And I miss being that stupid sometimes.
More sigh.
😀
LOL Too funny!
I attend a private university and it always amazes me how the experience is wasted on the young. They party way too much, spend more than is humanly possible, and never go to class…the best part is that it is all posted on facebook…. The party is great till the drunken pics are discovered by their future employer when they do a web search … Live it up now, because it’s only fun till you’re sober.