*please point out the thread my rant lies in, if one exists already. i'm too lazy to look.*
alright, i turned eighteen on the 21st of february. woop de doo, right?
well let's see... i can vote now. i can buy cigarettes and tobacco related shit. i can look at or buy pornography. i no longer have to have a work permit. i can work as many hours in the day as i damn well please. if i choose to support myself, i can move out of my mom's house and live on my own. i can get married without parental consent. i can be arrested, because i'm a legal adult i guess. i can join the army or something and fucking DIE for america if i felt the need to.
so i can do all of this shit... that's great and all, but why the hell do i have to wait three more years until i can legally drink? it makes no fucking sense to me.
another thing that REALLY gets me, because i've known my entire life about the obnoxious legal drinking age, is the fact that i can't rent a fucking hotel room. what is this shit??? what if i was married, and for some reason my husband and i (both of us under 21) had to rent a hotel room while we were moving into our new house or something? we would be shit out of luck i guess, because the bitch at the front counter would tell us that we can't do it because we aren't 21.
or forget the whole married thing.. what if my friends and i were taking a road trip to florida or something? are we supposed to sleep in the car, because apparently we aren't old enough to get a couple rooms. sure, we've got the credit card to pay you with and we're legal adults... but it looks like we're still too young to have a place to stay away from home. what a bunch of fucking bullshit...
/rant.
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