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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes I open the elevator door using the little Jedi hand gesture and I'm 34.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago

That's not weird, that's mandatory.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Same ... in my forties.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I did the same thing and found it actually worked, if it's someplace like a very crowded hallway. Worth noting though I was not in America, or an all boys high school. Shit I heard about those places sounds like a fake high school sitcom to me.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

It's a great way to get through a crowded bar or concert, but I've amended the technique a little. I stretch my arm out and use it to telegraph where I'm headed, pushing my arm ahead of me through the gaps between people, and they tend to kinda naturally make a space with no contact necessary. I'll only put my hand on someone's shoulder if they're totally oblivious or I'd otherwise walk into them, and even then you have to be subtle about the right pressure and length of touching or I could see people getting mad, but I've never had someone be upset with a very brief light tap and I've used this technique successfully to move myself and my girlfriend (we hold hands and I almost pull her along with me lol) through some tight crowds without ever ruffling any feathers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

hmmm, all boys high schools aren't actually very common in America. high schools here are almost all coed.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (7 children)

By “younger”, I thought they meant childhood, not… fifteen.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Bro the teens are when you are most cringe. That's where the real juicy stories are.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Any younger and you largely dgaf.

When you hit teens there something in you that starts making you want look cool to girls. That's the most important thing in the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Good point!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Idk man 15 is pretty young.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Too young to drink drive and vote, old enough to be a parent and to soon enlist in the army

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep, and 18 is still pretty young.

[–] taladar 5 points 3 months ago

25 is still pretty young too and some of the cringiest behavior is people at that age acting as if they were still 17 (though not as bad as 45 year olds acting like they are 25 or 60+ year olds acting as if they were in the single digit ages).

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

15 is one of the criengiest time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, 13-15 for me. Although I've spent all my teen years behind a computer and didn't socialize at all, so I was pretty weird overall. Well, I still am, but at least I can at least talk with strangers with no issues, although I still get nervous very rarely and talk nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

You are 100% a child when you're 15 lol I know I coach 15 year olds every day

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Younger is just a comparative form. It doesn't imply a particular period of one's life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I mean... fifteen is still childhood, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I am not alone it seems.