I need like a giant stack of frozen lasagna and pizza with a giant bottle of lactose pills. #election2024

I miss being a teenager that could eat anything and the freezer full of food from Costco my parents provided. I didn't know how wonderful those days were.

@scottyorange I miss being a teenager and thinking I pretty much knew everything.

@BillieBun @scottyorange I miss being a teenager and my 1br apartment cost $240 a month

@shadow_queene @scottyorange Yes-yes! I think I paid $40 or $50 a month, with utilities. 8 girls, of course.

@BillieBun @scottyorange Yeah, mine was including utilities too. I lived alone most of the time. Ex-husband kind of came and went.

@shadow_queene @scottyorange I didn't have an ex husband for a few more years... I was still in high school.

@BillieBun @scottyorange I should have been in high school, but life happened. I was 17.

@shadow_queene @scottyorange I have no idea why, but I never once thought of not finishing high school.

@BillieBun @scottyorange I didn't get a choice. Shitty home life, moved out at 16, bounced around for a year, never in the same school district long enough to bother. Then I got married because it was easier than getting emancipated. Got my GED a couple years later.

@shadow_queene @scottyorange Ya, the shitty home life- I waited till I had saved up "enough" money from babysitting. Didn't get married right away, but there certainly was a guy there ready to ruin my life.....

@BillieBun @scottyorange It kind of got that way with no warning for me. I was not prepared but I did it anyway

@shadow_queene @scottyorange Well, when you're escaping a fucked up family situation you do a lot of stupid things because you don't know how not to. I know that was the case for me anyway. Now I figure I'm a couple of weeks shy of 67 so at least I didn't die of stupidity. I later went to college, got a Master's, taught for 25 years, was a "productive citizen" for what that was worth. 😜

@BillieBun @scottyorange I'm a month from 42. Dropped out of college twice, but eventually found my way to a good job I'm perfect for, happily (re)married, and I like my life most of the time. It all worked out in the end.