Delusional Cleveland sports fan | (2x) Complimented in public for buying Coors Banquet | Sack Dumper | Forklift Certified | #maction | 4-year College Dropout
i came across this woman on tiktok and she’s actually great. her whole thing is to well socialize your kids. discourage them from strange obsessive hobbies or interests. don’t let them have weird friends. it’s a message we don’t hear enough of and is increasingly important
That is what the best live music does. You can stand in a room with thousands of people you probably disagree with about plenty of things, and for one night none of it matters. Everyone is paying attention to the same thing, feeling the same moment and leaving a little lighter than they came in.
We have enough places to argue. I hope concerts always remain one of the places where we don’t have to.
I get why kids aren’t racing to get their driver’s licenses anymore.
Cars are expensive. Insurance is absurd. Gas isn’t cheap. A trip through the Taco Bell drive-thru somehow requires a consultation with your financial advisor.
But young bucks, listen to the millennial:
You are massively overestimating how much money is required to have fun.
We were broke too.
We just had lower standards.
Millennials would pile six people into a 1994 Toyota Previa with a check engine light that had achieved permanent residency.
Someone knew a lake.
Someone’s older brother knew how to acquire questionable booze.
Someone had $11.
Download every fast food app on your phone. Become a scholar of the value menu. Split gas. Buy a football. Find a swimming hole. Go fishing with equipment your dad hasn’t touched since 2004. Build a fire where you’re legally allowed to build a fire.
Go to minor league baseball games. High school football games. Free concerts. County fairs. Hiking trails. Run a stupid 5K together. Get six friends and invent a competition so poorly organized someone nearly loses a shoe.
Stop waiting for entertainment to be sold to you.
That’s the trap.
You think “going out” means spending $80 at a restaurant, buying $17 cocktails and paying $40 to park because that’s what adults on Instagram do.
You’re 17.
Your advantage is that nobody expects you to have any money.
Get your license if you can. Get a shitty car. Find five good friends.
Then go.
The lake is still there.
The woods are still there.
The girls are still out there.
Taco Bell still occasionally makes serious accounting errors on its app.
Your youth is too valuable to spend complaining that fun got expensive.
Become cheaper.
Become more creative.
Go make some stories.
Just have one of you stay sober and drive the shitty van home.
gotta be honest if ur entire next day is ruined because u drank a couple glasses of wine the night before ur kind of a pussy
i’m loving this new anti optimization wave going on right now, we got one life, live it