Pancake Assistant

Earlier, I was on Craigslist, looking for lawlz. I found one.

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/stp/1278977516.html

If I were to respond to this, it would look something like this...

Jeezy Creezy, Kids These Days...

This quote was extracted from a recent article in Teen Vogue about whether or not to change the drinking age to 18. The quote was very big and highlighted, used as a valid point towards one side of the argument. I was very angry upon seeing this, and personally grounded Stella* for three weeks with no AIM! Bummer!

"If you're old enough to vote or fight in wars, you're old enough to drink"
- Stella,* 15

Phew. Okay. Buckle your seat belts, guys.

Listen, Stella*. I know you think you're cool and opinionated because you ripped part of this philosophy off the sign of a passionate teen during the Vietnam war pushing for voting rights. But you're 15. 15. Barely 3 years a teenager, and you're already trying to justify that getting drunk with your friends is as much as a national freedom, right and honor as serving in our military and voting in elections. I think our great country needs to take the most extreme measures (keeping the drinking age at 21 is a good start) to reinforce this one simple fact: You are not an adult. And there is a real reason why you are not yet considered mature. Your statement is, then, entirely false. The three things you mention in your quote do have something in common: they require intense responsibility. And since you are not old enough to have experienced these things, you have no basis for your argument whatsoever.