A Teenager Is . . .

2. A weight watcher who goes on a diet by giving up candy bars before breakfast.
3. A youngster who receives her allowance on Monday, spends it on Tuesday, and borrows it from her best friend on Wednesday.
4. Someone who can hear his favorite singer 3 blocks away but not his mother calling from the next room.
5. A whiz who can operate the latest computer without a lesson but can't make a bed.
6. A student who spends 12 minutes studying history and 12 hours studying for her driver's license. -
. A connoisseur of 2 kinds of fine music--loud and very loud.
8. An enthusiast who has the energy to bike for miles but is usually too tired to dry the dishes.
9. A young woman who loves the cat and tolerates the brother.
10. A romantic who never falls in love more than once a week.
11. A budding beauty who never smiles until her braces come off.
12. A boy who can sleep till noon on any Saturday he suspects the lawn needs mowing.
13. An original thinker who is positive that her mother was never a teenager.
Originally published November 14, 2002.