I can't wait until this election is over.... It makes me sad.

[AmandaRuth]

So as I sat around minding my own business, my friend gives me a call.

Friend: Hi, Nat.

Me: Hi.

Friend: You know, I'm glad the election's almost over.

Me: Yeah.

Friend: You need to stop wearing those Kerry buttons to school. People are starting to say things.

Me: I can wear them if I want to.

Friend: But they're starting to call you stuff. Nat, you should just give it up and leave politics to grownups.

Me: We're legal adults in five years. We won't be able to vote in that election but the one after that we can. I can be as political as I WANT to be. You back off if you can't take Right Wing Freeper hate.

Friend: Nat, just cool it, okay? You're too young for this. I swear, you can't just go yell at people because they don't like..

Me: THEY start the fights, I finish them. I am NOT TO YOUNG to like a political candidate and be interested in my future!!!

Friend: Do you even know what you're talking about? How do you know all this stuff? it's not effing natural, Nat.

Me: What? I'm smarter than them so that makes me weird?

Friend: Why don't you just cool it, stop messing around with the Kerry stuff, and get back on track. Nat, we just don't think like you. You gotta face the fact that no one out here loves Seattle, no one out here knows what a democracy is, and no one gives a darn about politics.

Me: So you want me to be the same as you?

Friend: No- that's not wha-

Me: Just be quiet. Yeah, I do all this stuff for you at school like be your friend and help you with homework and stuff like that. Yeah, this is real great. You freepers can't STAND other peoples point of view, can you?

Friend: Nat, just listen!

Me: Okay.

Friend: A lot of people think you're weird! They don't like Kerry and for a good reason!

Me: WHAT NOW?!

Friend: The abortion thingy and the job thi-

Me: *yelling into phone* I'VE GONE OVER THIS BEFORE!! AS FAR AS I KNOW, JOHN KERRY IS NOT AGAINST ABORTION BECAUSE HE WON'T NEED ONE!! I AM FOR ABORTION RIGHTS BECAUSE I MIGHT NEED ONE!!! AND WHO HAS THE FRIENDS SENDING JOBS OVER SEAS?!?!?!?!?!

Friend: You're just white trash!

Me: Look who's talking! Just because don't have revealing clothes doesn't mean I'm poor!!!

Friend: Bush will do a good job!

Me: Listen, I am in my OWN HOUSE ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NOT THINKING ABOUT ANYTHING BUT T.V, and here you come telling me about how other people think about me. I. Don't. Care.

Friend: I'm never going to hand out with you again!! You're just an idiot!!! You should give up and accept the fact that you're never going anywhere!! You don't even have a boyfriend!!!

Me: I have my saxophone, my piano, my writings, and my art. I'm not a slut like you and I don't need a boyfriend to be secure. Goodbye, you jerk. And thanks so much for ruining my day. *Slams down phone in disgust*

Good gravy, she didn't have to come up and just yell at me like that. I know it looks like I yelled more often by I just said things with more 'emotion' than other words. Sheesh, there goes another friendship down the pooper just because they yelled at me.

Miniluvamericahatebush

[Taylor Mason Powell]

1. I really admire you.

Way to stick to your guns in the face of what must be enormous peer pressure. Not many teenagers would. I'm sorry this happened with your "friend," (although she sounds like the kind of person you don't want as a friend anyway), but I'm glad there are young people like you out there. Don't ever lose that passion! This country needs it.

[acmavm]

2. You are so better off with that intrusive pushy overbearing dead-from-

the-neck-up little snip in your life. No one has the right to tell you what to think or what you opinions or preferences should be. You did the right think.

Intimidation and blackmail tactics, that's all they have. Pat yourself on the back kid. You proved that you've got brains, taste, guts, and integrity. Politically speaking you are apparently light years ahead of these clowns. And they'll be the first ones crying when things belly-up if their boy george steals this election.

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Wow, is that what teenage friendships are like?

I guess I'm glad that I was a loner.

Don't worry, Mini. Go to college and let those idiots inbreed.

[babylonsister]

4. I can't even imagine being so involved

at your age. I'm very impressed, and I'm glad you stuck to your guns. You seem like a very wise young soul. Hat's off to you!

[skygazer]

5. Friends like that you don't need

They aren't real friends. Real friends accept you whether you agree with their views or not. Real friends respect your opinions.

I used to get the line in high school that I didn't have a boyfriend because I was "too smart". I wasn't going to act like a dope just so I could have a guy to feel superior to me. And you don't need to act uninformed or uninterested just so these people can feel superior to you or at least on the same level.

I'm thankful there are some young people like you out there who do take an interest. You're right - you'll be eligible to vote soon enough - smart to start learning before that happens. :headbang:

[Droopy]

6. You have much more patience than me

I think I would have told her to get fucked long before you ended the conversation. It's good that you are interested in politics at such a young age. It means you'll be a much more informed voter when you're old enough to do so. And you never know, you might make a career for yourself in politics.

[LordshipLadyship]

7. Madam DU sees your future

In a few years, she'll be divorced twice, with twenty-five kids, and dating a guy that looks like highway roadkill and smells twice as bad.

You'll be a senator. :yourock: