Damnit.

QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
<div class="IPBDescription">The Problem With Being Mature IRL.</div> See, I've never been able to make friends my own grade. They've always been older by a year or 2. This is my Junior year of High School- all of my friends are seniors, and get a off-campus lunch pass. I don't.

So now, I'm getting left out of the group for something I am already ridiculed for- being younger.

Life sucks. GFG.
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  • MantridMantrid Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
    I know this probably doesn't help, but try to have two groups of friends. I'll either hang out with the people who are a year or so older than me (but in the same grade) that I've been around since 2nd grade, or I'll go hang out with my Drama friends, most of which can drive, have jobs, and are anywhere from 2 to 4 years older.


    Redundency is the key.
  • ZelZel Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12861Members
    when this happened to me i sorta retreated into the internet and shuned the outside world. i dont reccomend it.

    try to recognize people in your own grade maturing, as you well know they will be happy to hang out with you even though you could be strangers, thats what maturity is all about.
  • Crono5Crono5 Join Date: 2003-07-22 Member: 18357Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Quaunaut+Aug 23 2004, 09:28 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Quaunaut @ Aug 23 2004, 09:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> See, I've never been able to make friends my own grade. They've always been older by a year or 2. This is my Junior year of High School- all of my friends are seniors, and get a off-campus lunch pass. I don't.

    So now, I'm getting left out of the group for something I am already ridiculed for- being younger.

    Life sucks. GFG. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I have the same problem, my best friend is four years older than me :X

    It sucks when you're mocked for something you can't help, but like you said, 'tis life.
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    Sucked for me too last year, cause all my friends had just gone to college. I was left with people that I didn't entirely relate to, and the process of getting to know them seemed more trouble than it was worth.

    You know, "Temp Friends", they get cleared kind of like your history file, when you no longer see them routinely? This doesn't apply to all of them of course, there were some that I didn't categorize as such, even ones who were a year or two younger but had the same interests. It's just the friends that you make that you have no common ground with except for that one class.

    Anyway that was always my solution, since the majority of people I related with were gone in that final year.
  • QuaunautQuaunaut The longest seven days in history... Join Date: 2003-03-21 Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-Cold-NiTe+Aug 23 2004, 07:48 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cold-NiTe @ Aug 23 2004, 07:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Sucked for me too last year, cause all my friends had just gone to college. I was left with people that I didn't entirely relate to, and the process of getting to know them seemed more trouble than it was worth.

    You know, "Temp Friends", they get cleared kind of like your history file, when you no longer see them routinely? This doesn't apply to all of them of course, there were some that I didn't categorize as such, even ones who were a year or two younger but had the same interests. It's just the friends that you make that you have no common ground with except for that one class.

    Anyway that was always my solution, since the majority of people I related with were gone in that final year. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Thats just it- thats ALREADY gonna happen to me because of this. This is just turning out to happen a year in advance.
  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    Its but a taste of the real world, and it sucks.
  • douchebagatrondouchebagatron Custom member title Join Date: 2003-12-20 Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    yea, didnt you get that memo?
  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    It's a lunch pass. You'll survive. Get over it.
  • BaconTheoryBaconTheory Join Date: 2003-09-06 Member: 20615Members
    This is actaully weird becasue the same thing is going to happen to me NEXT year. All of my "year-older" friends will be seniors and I will be a junior. Right now, I'm a sophmore so its not really an issue. It wil lget bad when all of your senior friends graduate and you're left all alone. OK, so maybe that was a little harsh but its reality.
  • ThE_HeRoThE_HeRo Join Date: 2003-01-25 Member: 12723Members
    Defy the law, and go eat lunch with your friends. Not hard.

    What do they have, a cop at every exit that checks every person in the car for lunch passes? I think they have better things to do, like eat donuts and harass me on the road.
  • Crono5Crono5 Join Date: 2003-07-22 Member: 18357Members
    My school has monitors at every exit at the school during lunch periods. Block them from the inside, foo'.
  • AlkillerAlkiller Join Date: 2004-05-23 Member: 28847Members
    Eh, I skipped 2 grades so all my friends are 2 years older...

    C'est la vie.
  • NumbersNotFoundNumbersNotFound Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7556Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Alkiller+Aug 23 2004, 11:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Alkiller @ Aug 23 2004, 11:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Eh, I skipped 2 grades so all my friends are 2 years older...

    C'est la vie. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Ditto (essentially). i think the girls can smell youth. Damn them.
  • ThE_HeRoThE_HeRo Join Date: 2003-01-25 Member: 12723Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Crono5788+Aug 23 2004, 11:43 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Crono5788 @ Aug 23 2004, 11:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> My school has monitors at every exit at the school during lunch periods. Block them from the inside, foo'. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Luckily for me, my campus is open. We have 8 different buildings in a big area.

    However, we arn't allowed to go out for lunch, we're supposed to go to the cafeteria for lunch. But if you're slick enough, you can get by pretty easily. I love my campus, even though it dates back to the 1940's.
  • RaVeRaVe Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17538Members
    edited August 2004
    I guess I'm lucky due to the fact that when you have lunch you can get outside and do almost anything. The problem is when one of the teachers see you J-walking (WTH is with the J anyway?)

    But if we're late we get baaad detentions. But that's no problem for me since I most of the time have duty inside the computer room (I have to look after it, but I STILL can't go into Network Maintenance)

    EDIT : Although life still does suck. Ah well, at least we have something :/
  • MedHeadMedHead Join Date: 2002-12-19 Member: 11115Members, Constellation
    edited August 2004
    Jaywalking.

    <a href='http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwordorigins/jaywalking' target='_blank'>http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq...gins/jaywalking</a>
  • CodemanCodeman Join Date: 2002-11-21 Member: 9497Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-RaVe+Aug 24 2004, 04:03 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RaVe @ Aug 24 2004, 04:03 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The problem is when one of the teachers see you J-walking (WTH is with the J anyway?) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That's the only way to cross roads in crazy Asian traffic~~~run and hope nothing hits you >.<

    My high school used to not let you out for lunch, but we went anyway because the Fish and Chips shops were close, and bringing lunch from home sucks (buying food sux too, not to mention it's pretty expensive when you are like 16 and have no income-.-)
  • HazeHaze O RLY? Join Date: 2003-07-07 Member: 18018Members, Constellation
    Let me get you the memo.
  • dr_ddr_d Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14979Members
    Do what I did when I was in highschool. When the campus pig tells you not to leave just say no and walk out of the door. Then don't show up for dentention and still come to school the day they suspended you. Total disregard for authority kind catches them off guard, trust me they have no real power over you.
  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    edited August 2004
    <!--QuoteBegin-MedHead+Aug 23 2004, 07:59 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Aug 23 2004, 07:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It's a lunch pass. You'll survive. Get over it. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    in a nutshell, yep.

    i mean... what.. they teased you a little because you don't get a lunch pass? be sneaky and cut out, or just stay and put up with it.. it's not the end of the world. your friends aren't disowning you <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • TestamentTestament Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4037Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Zel+Aug 24 2004, 02:36 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Zel @ Aug 24 2004, 02:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> when this happened to me i sorta retreated into the internet and shuned the outside world. i dont reccomend it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I reccomend it.
  • Marine0IMarine0I Join Date: 2002-11-14 Member: 8639Members, Constellation
    I hate to say it, but if you possessed real maturity, making friends you age wouldnt be a problem, nor would you be worried and stressed if you didnt.

    Not that I'm speaking from experience, but thats how it seems to me.
  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    when I was in high school, I just applied for two ID's on the first day. 1 for my real grade, and 1 that let me off campus.

    The moral of the story is: The picture guy doesn't care, and the security only has your id to work from.
  • CommunistWithAGunCommunistWithAGun Local Propaganda Guy Join Date: 2003-04-30 Member: 15953Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-dr.d+Aug 24 2004, 12:58 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (dr.d @ Aug 24 2004, 12:58 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Do what I did when I was in highschool. When the campus pig tells you not to leave just say no and walk out of the door. Then don't show up for dentention and still come to school the day they suspended you. Total disregard for authority kind catches them off guard, trust me they have no real power over you. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Haha I lived by that in highschool. "Someone needs to stop this kid" my teacher replied "From what, going to class?"
  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    Hooray for being completely immature!
  • Daza4Daza4 Kerc Kasha Join Date: 2003-04-06 Member: 15233Members
    Same thing for me. I have mature friends but which are my age but.
  • kidakida Join Date: 2003-02-20 Member: 13778Members
    .lol. That's nothing Quaunut, get over it.

    But alas, a wise poet once said...

    "To each his own suffr'ings, are all men."
  • SurgeSurge asda4a3sklflkgh Join Date: 2002-07-14 Member: 944Members
    Funny thing is, people don't get more mature as they get older. People who are jerks when young are jerks all their lives.

    Also, here we get off-campus lunch starting at Sophomore year. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • ThaldarinThaldarin Alonzi&#33; Join Date: 2003-07-15 Member: 18173Members, Constellation
    I used to have this problem a couple of years ago. I didn't find it hard at all to fit in with people of my own year group (grad as Americans put it) either. The key is not being less mature with your fellow students, but having the sick (normally sexual) and outrageous humour. Being humourus aswell as being mature will help you get along much easier.

    Hint: Never crack a sexual joke as your first joke.
  • SaltzBadSaltzBad Join Date: 2004-02-23 Member: 26833Members
    Hi, I'm a pansy internet drama queen. Someone stole my launch, wah!
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