To all the DU Teens out there: Don't worry - it will get better - life goes on

Just sayin

:hi:

I'd file a complaint against him...but that's just me. I am a friend of law enforcement and give them the doubt usually because I work in a high-risk profession late at night but there is such a thing as abuse of authority. She's a minor...he can't legally ask you to leave because she has a right upheld by SCOTUS to not be questioned outside of your presence or that of a legal representative of your choosing.*

It seems to me that he issued the citation expressly because she called you and you were present and that pissed him off.

*-It's amazing what one learns the one day you don't sleep through 8am Const. Law. Even if she's not a minor, the law in most jurisdictions says he has to assume she is until he knows she isn't. Ergo, if he asked you to leave before he took her license, the citation is probably illegal. Note I am not a lawyer and am not qualified to give legal advice, nor am I knowledgeable in the laws of the state of Michigan...but I can advise to speak to a lawyer. Speak to a lawyer. Call Legal Aid if you have to.

Good vibes and best wishes.

highschool and teenagehood are only the beginning :hi:

from here!

But we still love you, teenagers. You're experimenting with who you are, making big choices, and starting to spread your wings.

Teenagers are tha bomb.

Yay, teenagers!

:yourock:

It's hard to remember these days. I've blocked out so many of those memories over the years...

:shrug: College was awesome, but now that I'm all graduated and don't have a clue what I want to do with my life, things are a bit more complicated. :shrug: :hi:

I'm opening the No Time To Lose Advice Centre. :)

You'll have a career, be using your education, be more laid back about having and raising kids, your sex drive will go into overdrive and it'll be more fun. Age has a lot to offer. But the 20's are hard - you feel like an adult but have no clue what you are doing. Just hang in there :)

Khash.

We've got Ava and Wimr and WannaB - All of them totally cool. The future of the world is in good hands. We have to worry about us old folks - when they take control, will they still be nice to us?

Khash.

and I was a teen in the 1960s!

I refuse to believe in reincarnation because I don't want to be ages 13-15 again.

Those really are "the prime suffering years".



Dwayne: I wish I could just sleep until I was eighteen and skip all this crap-high school and everything-just skip it.
Frank: You know Marcel Proust?
Dwayne: He’s the guy you teach.
Frank: Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he’s also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh… he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, ’cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn’t learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you’re 18… Ah, think of the suffering you’re gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-those are your prime suffering years. You don’t get better suffering than that.

-- "Little Miss Sunshine" --

and into the rat race. w00t.

No one tells it better than Leonard Cohen.

"Yeah we're drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening
and the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
And my very close companion
gets me fumbling gets me laughing
she's a hundred but she's wearing
something tight
and I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth
except to say it isn't worth a dime
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it's once for the devil and once for Christ
but the Boss don't like these dizzy heights
we're busted in the blinding lights,
busted in the blinding lights
of CLOSING TIME"

Just sayin'.

This has got to be the hardest time in my life ever (so far - always the "optimist").

the good news is that when you grow up and get a job you mostly interact w/ adults instead of teenagers... that has its benefits.

But the challenges seem so much more serious. It's not money for a prom dress, it's money to put a roof over your head or provide for a family.

I hated my teen years.

I hated my son's teen years.

I'm so glad we've both come out on the other side.

It's been 46 yrs. since I've been a teen, if I had it
to do over I'd be born into something other than a
profit driven culture.
Never aspired to be wealthy and never was but, unlike
life in my "Golden Years," I usually had what few dollars
I needed to afford a few activities that gave me pleasure.
I now find everything I was taught about life in
"The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" was a shameless lie!

To anyone under 50, enjoy every moment you can, it doesn't get better.