Barrel Jeans and Jorts
. I don’t usually hate on people’s sense of style, but there’s a line between style and bad financial decisions. I feel like anyone who’s wearing barrel jeans is just succumbing to peer pressure because there is no way that anyone is looking at those hideous, repulsive, utterly disgusting pieces of clothing and being like yeah that’s totally something I want to wear.
. Jorts. Depending on the person, I feel like these can either look really good or make you look like you’re three feet tall. I wouldn’t necessarily say I hate these, but most of the time, in my opinion, they look really really bad.
Water Bottle Collections
. Lately, I’ve noticed that people are starting to use reusable water bottles like they’re single use. There’s no reason that you should have eight different Stanleys, four different Owalas, and seven old Hydroflasks.
. Stanleys are mostly made from stainless steel and according to Google’s AI overview, stainless steel water bottles last up to three years.
. Just to reiterate, Three YEARS . . . not weeks.
. You don’t need a Stanley in every color and a pastel Owala to match the Stanley.
. You don’t need the holiday edition of a water bottle.
. You don’t need to twin water bottles with your friends on a rotation.
Coffee “Addicts”
. If you’re a freshman or sophomore, you have no reason to be coming to school everyday gripping your coffee like your life depends on it. Don’t preach to me that you care about the environment when I’ve literally never seen you use a reusable coffee cup . . . if you even know what that is.
. If you’re going to tell me what your “coffee of the day is,” don’t rattle it around in my face like it’s a maraca or something.
. I don’t care about how much sleep you got last night.
. I don’t care about how you hand brewed your coffee, infused it with notes of cinnamon and brown sugar
. . . . and then added a caramel drizzle
. . . . and then layered oatmilk on top of it
. . . . and then added cold foam
. . . . and sprinkled cinnamon on top.
. It’s 8 in the morning, and maybe you’d get more sleep if you weren’t waking up to brew a potion.
Mullets, Perms, and Buzzcuts
. Imagine this, you’re scribbling down notes in class, the test is coming up and your grade can not take the blow. You actually understand this lesson . . . and then all of a sudden you don’t. That guy that sits in front of you is messing with his perm. You can’t see the vital information your grade really needs.
. While your teacher erases the writing on the board, they also erase your chance at passing that summative. In a few days, after the test, your grade looks just as ugly as that guy’s hair.
The School “Bathroom”
. Imagine this exact scenario (which you probably won’t even have to imagine because unfortunately it’s pretty common).
. You walk into the school bathroom, it’s gross. You turn the corner and you walk through the frame of someone’s tiktok. They pause and stare at you blankly for a second. You awkwardly shuffle into one of the bathroom stalls, and you can hear them restart on their tiktok.
. You’re waiting inside the stall to leave because you’re not going to walk in the frame again. Since there’s 5 inch gaps in the doors in the bathroom, you can very conveniently see the people messing up on their “dance” over and over and over again.
. Now you’re stuck in the bathroom stall. Minutes go by and you can feel the nicotine infused walls of the bathroom closing in on you. You walk out of the stall, again through their TikTok, you wash your hands quickly and pass a vape addict on the way back to class.
. Personally, I feel like this a way bigger problem than someone showing up to class two minutes late because why do we have teachers deployed in the hallways to catch people who are late when there’s literally a congregated assembly of vapers and tiktokers in the bathroom right next to every single tardy station?
