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CaliforniaPeggy

(152,099 posts)
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 12:18 AM Mar 2021

I am a Seenager. (Senior teenager)

I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later. I don’t have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don’t have a curfew. I have a driver’s license and my own car. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don’t have acne. Life is great.
Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers.
I didn’t make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row.
I decided to stop calling the bathroom the “John” and renamed it the “Jim”. I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning.
Old age is coming at a really bad time.
When I was a child I thought “Nap Time” was a punishment. Now it feels like a small vacation.
The biggest lie I tell myself is ”I don't need to write that down, I'll remember it."
I don’t have gray hair; I have "wisdom highlights"! I’m just very wise.
If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would’ve put them on my knees.
Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven’t met yet.
Why do I have to press one for English when you’re just going to transfer me to someone I can't understand anyway?
Of course I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice.
At my age “Getting lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I came in there for.
I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can’t remember their names.
Now, I’m wondering: did I send this to you, or did you send it to me?

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I am a Seenager. (Senior teenager) (Original Post) CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2021 OP
You truly are a treasure CaliforniaPeggy. It's been a while since I've had such a good alwaysinasnit Mar 2021 #1
If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would've put them on my knees. Captain Zero Mar 2021 #2
Oddly enough, I can not only touch my toes, but I can put my hands flat on the floor. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #3
A pariah? Heavens, no! -misanthroptimist Mar 2021 #10
Happy to help out when you drop your keys. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #11
So true. I love it. Thank you for the laugh. judesedit Mar 2021 #4
Pizza GReedDiamond Mar 2021 #5
I can relate DFW Mar 2021 #6
I remember fossils! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2021 #7
For the first time ever, I don't have any enemies. multigraincracker Mar 2021 #8
Luv it, thank you Peggy! Sweet appalachiablue Mar 2021 #9
I would laugh at it if it weren't so true bucolic_frolic Apr 2021 #12

Captain Zero

(7,507 posts)
2. If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would've put them on my knees.
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 12:55 AM
Mar 2021

my best chuckle.

If you laughed at this then give it a REC.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(26,727 posts)
3. Oddly enough, I can not only touch my toes, but I can put my hands flat on the floor.
Sun Mar 28, 2021, 01:46 AM
Mar 2021

I'm 72. I guess I'll be a pariah now.

bucolic_frolic

(46,998 posts)
12. I would laugh at it if it weren't so true
Sat Apr 17, 2021, 07:47 AM
Apr 2021

I often wonder how do I get out of this mess? But the issues are so complex it's like fumbling Rubick's Cube at high speed with no obvious place to begin.

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