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Originally Posted by the chi
Yeah but when you were 18 or older were Mommy and Daddy still paying all your bills while you sat around and got fat/high/arrested for stupidity? Were they still making all your phone calls, all your decisions while you didn't know your own address, social security or phone number?
At 12 I had a full time job and paid for everything I wanted except food at the parents table. At 16 I bought my own cell phone, with my own money, paid all my minimal bills and paid rent to my parents and drove a $500 car thats the one thing my parents ever actually bought for me. When I was 18 I had 2 full time jobs, bought my own car, knew where I lived, my SS, all the phone numbers for emergencies, etc. I was also able to hold a telephone call that didnt consist of "uh, uh i dunno" as well as hold polite social conversation in person. At 19 I bought my first house.
I mean really. I may have been an overachiever, but at the ripe old age of 18 (or OLDER), when you are living on your own, albeit in the apartment your parents pay for and using the free bmw they gave you, as a college student should you not be able to do simple things on your own? How do these morons even get into college or sign up for classes?!?
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The point is, YOU might have been ambitious. But, in "our day" there were plenty of mouth-breathers.
My daughter just did a project where she had to interview different people that grew up in different decades. "Teenager in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s" and the last question was "How is your generation different than those that came after you?" The answer was generally the same for each
