Submitted by Anonymous

Never in my life have I seen a 19-year-old throw a tantrum on a daily basis. I don’t know what is so stressful about not having to work a job, sleeping in until noon every day, and partying every night, but something about it must be terrible because you complain to the whole neighborhood about how much your life sucks. Perhaps dealing drugs is much more difficult than I imagined?

As for me, I work a full-time job, attend full-time senior-level college courses, take care of my family, and consider myself lucky to get six hours of sleep a night. Of course, that figure is a rough estimate given the fact that, on most nights, you like to throw one of your classic tantrums at 3:00am. I probably make less money per week doing something that requires higher education than you do in a couple of hours of selling chemicals to kids. In fact, I make less money now than I did in high school, which is over ten years ago, but you don’t hear me crying about it out in the middle of the street.

So what’s the deal? Why are you so mad? Why do you vandalize my property and shout obscenities at me? I clearly don’t make a lot of money, I never see my family, I actually have to pay rent (that’s right, I found out that you don’t even pay rent), and for some reason you think I have it so much better than you. Is it the fact that you’re starting a domestic animal zoo in your own home? How about instead of abusing your animals, give some of them away to people that will actually care for them. I’m sure that some family would love to take care of one of your four dogs or two cats.

I don’t know what’s so much worse about your life when compared to mine, but give it a rest on the violence and the screaming. Do you see anybody else in the neighborhood acting that way? I could understand if it was an occasional outburst after a bad day, but is it really necessary to cuss up a storm every single day? I will hate to see what you become when you actually grow up and get a real job.

All I can say is, good luck to you, because apparently you’re going to need it.

 

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