surferlove007

Yea I hear you, I'm 18 and people say I'm still young and fresh, or in the words of a gentleman friend of mine I'm dating about four ahead of me says I'm a "whipper-snapper" Haha either way I'm fine with it. I have always hung out with an older crowd since high school due to my sport, and at work. So it's just natural I guess. I feel like I get along better with older people, less drama.
At work this summer my age was a negative in several situations.
People would refuse to give me authority because I was younger at the pool where I worked. I was a lifeguard, started when I was 15. Most of the other guards were in college, so I obviously had something to prove with being so young. Three years has taught me how to show when I mean something. I had to call the police several times due to older men coming up in my face screaming at me when I had asked them to leave for lacking the proper information for entrance into the pool. They would try to scare me into letting them in, didn't work. I never did cry when they got up in my face, I held my own, very proud of myself for that. That job has really toughened up my view on situations. Now I have more of a bring it on attitude.
It probably helps that my mother is a corportate woman and knows how to show it...although I do wonder if she is bipolar at times, she said she is passive-aggresive which is a commont trait among corp women.
Age doesn't mean much, I believe it is how you act with it to show you're true maturity. I wish older people would give a little more credit to "youngins" when they're working, otherwise no problem.
Any other similar stories?