I'm an Adult I can DO what I WANT!

People should learn not to say stupid things around me, because they know later, it will come back to haunt them! :)



An acquaintance of mine recently wanted his way about things. I forget exactly what ridiculous argument had ensued, except that it ended with his statement: "I'm an adult I can do what I want." It got me to thinking... >:) Can he in fact live with his own rule? I asked him if he was in fact a god, if only his rules applied to him or do his rules apply to everyone? He didn't know what that meant. Just then another driver cut him off in traffic. He cussed and screamed at the man through the windshield. (The windshield was definitely intimidated by such a brutal verbal assault.) I couldn't help the maniacal smile that spread across my face (hee hee..) "Well," I said offhandedly, "maybe he's an adult and can do what HE wants." :) Of course, that got a rise out of the young man. Then of course, I began to chew my gum, loudly naturally, and then to pop bubble after bubble, after annoyingly loud bubble. It took nearly 15 minutes until he screamed, "STOP THAT!!!!" I looked around innocently, "what?...... I'm an adult I can do what I want, and besides I'm older than you are, so I can do MORE of what I want than you can!" (It really bites when your idiotic statement has to apply across the board, huh?)
A similiar incident happened just the other day. I was with a friend and his son (who is only seven years old) and sometimes it's hard to tell which one is seven. As my friend is distracted, the young man proceeds to start playing with dials and switches which he's not suppose to touch. Then the youngster found the light switch and as I was trying to research some things the strobe of iridescent lights on..light off, lights on,.light off, light on strobe was starting to fry my nerves. "Please stop," I asked the lad. The lights, air conditioner anything with a switch continued to be played with nonstop. GGGrrrrr.... I went up front to tell my friend his kid was harrassing me with the equipment and he whipped around and screamed, "HE'S JUST BEING A KID!"
" ..... okay.... " ,I thought. Is this what parents have come to? In my day, my father would have threatened to break my fingers if I so much as LOOKED at a switch again!! not to mention I would have had to follow up with a sincere apology to the adult I had annoyed! Well...this young man should thank his lucky stars that he can do anything he wants and his parent will excuse it with a colloquialism. I guess then a murderer is just venting frustration, a rapist is just finding a date, and my bad behaviour can be chalked up to "just being an artist." LOL


Ironic that the simple statement, "I'm an adult, I can do what I want" implies such immaturity and childishness in the very expression. If one is going to make excuses for one's bad behaviour and reckless abandon of responsibility, please use a better sounding proclamation. If your going to excuse your children's bad behaviour with "he's just being a kid", don't be suprised if that teenager he grows into is the one tagging cars and stealing stereos systems as you excuse it with..."he's just being a teenager."
I caution those that make their own set of rules to live by. Make sure you can live with them to! ;)