My Super Sweet 16

That was the name of the television show I was watching yesterday afternoon. I was bored out of my mind and thisclose to running into the kitchen and stuffing my face with anything I could get my hands on - food type stuff and non-food type stuff - it didn't matter...I was bored and HUNGRY!!

So, I flipped to one of the music video channels...I have no idea why, probably to just depress myself even further, so that I'd get in my car and drive to the nearest store and purchase copious amounts of chocolate type Easter goodies. I had a Russell Stover's chocolate truffle bunny the other day that made my eyes roll back in my head (the good way). Mmmmmmm!

But I digress..anyway, on this particular channel they were showing a reality show (ugh) about rich kids (ugh ugh) and the spectacular, outlandish and dare I say it - heinously self-absorbed ways they celebrate their Sweet 16 birthdays (ugh to the nth degree).

Y'all I was AMAZED...this one girl (and I'm trying to be a better person, so I'll forgo a physical description of her, which would include the words "hugely fat" and "dressed like a stuffed sausage in a too-small casing" and "A Full Length Mirror - THE PERFECT GIFT".) Anyway, this one young lady? was such a brat that, if I had been unfortunate enough to be her mother, I would have INSISTED they obscure my face, and conceal my identity.

Beginning with the language, (and really, I'm liable to cut almost ANYBODY a break on using cuss words, because of my own fondness and liberal use of them - but, hearing them come out of the mouth of a "Sweet 16" uh uh...not pretty), on to the DEMAND for Dunkin Donuts (see above comment about hugely fat - and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MOM - JUST SAY NO!!), straight up to the time she looked her mother in the eye and said, and I quote "Don't EVEN think this day ISN'T ALL ABOUT ME, because IT IS!" Oh yeah, right about then I could have answered the age old question "Does a fat, spoiled, almost 16 year old brat BOUNCE when shoved out of a moving vehicle?" Enquiring minds wanna know, you know!

Oh, and I almost forgot one of the best parts - when the little darling pitched a fit because her grandmother ALMOST made the HUGE mistake of buying her a "used" LEXUS! Oh, the HORROR!! My God - aren't there Child Neglect LAWS where those people live!! (I sooo need one of those eye-rolly icons here).

Miss All About Me had herself a doozy of a party, allright, and mom admitted she'd spent over $180,000.00, but it was SO worth it! No, that was NOT a typo...mom said she spent OVER $180,000.00 on that little pisspot's birthday party.

There are so many things wrong with that, I can't even BEGIN to list them all. Let's just say that particular young woman would have been much better served if her mother had put that money in a trust fund for her. Judging by that girl's actions, she's NOT going to be much of a success at anything other than being a complete and total miserable excuse for a human being, and, unless I've missed something, they ain't paying you too well for that these days.

Oh, and P.S. I remember what I got for my 16th birthday...a pair of headphones for my 8 track stereo - and I thought it was just great, too.