Teenagers love to freeze

What is with Teenagers, more specifically teenage boys.

My boy is 17 in a week, we live in Canada, it was -8C when he left for school this morning.
Where is his coat?......Sitting on the chair next to me.
The boy is 5'11" and 125lbs soaking wet, always complaining that "I don't feel good, I think I'm getting a cold"
Well no shit sherlock, you been wandering around all winter in a tshirt and hoddy (open) and no coat. It has only got above 0C once in 8 weeks.

I used to do this kind of thing too but I lived in the UK, it only got down to -2C a couple of times a year.

Funny thing is, it's all vanity, you don't look cool with a coat..........but apparently you look cool standing there in the snow with the wind howling and shivering so much you look like you're having some form of seizure. Yes very cool, well guess what, this is Canada, you look more of a moron walking round in summer/spring clothes in the middle of winter than dressing apropriately.

Damn kids :mad

 

Hahahaha!:-D Teenagers.rolleyes There's nothing new there but the poor lad needs some extra insulation as he'll get hypothermic real quick with his body weight!:eek Wait 'til it gets to -20C and heavy wind, it ain't fun. Oh, colds come from a virus and not from 'the cold'.

Ya @ looking cool. He must really look 'cool' if he misses the bus and starts shivering or has post nasal drip. That's really cool!:-D

 

in detroit, when i was a teen, if you did where a cool coat, you run the chance of getting shot for it.

 

Please use proper scale.
-8C = 17.6F
Not that cold.
:-D

 

LOL, for Central Wisconsin that is absolutely beautiful BBQ'ing weather, just like here!:drool:-D Gonna do some steaks today as the wind is quiet and the sun is beaming down @ -8C ATM. Don't forget, they don't get -30's in the UK.

 

Leave the lad alone Ned, as you said you where like that once, you whinging owld sod, for all you know he might be trying to look cool for some young piece of skirt, and if he wears a coat she might not notice him !
P.S where abouts in the UK did you used to live ?

@Brandypeppy didn't know you where a weather man !

 

Oh it gets down to -20's here too, lowest I've seen it was -35C with wind chill. It's just been mild.

@Rusty.... lol yeah I'm a moaning ol' git, I'm allowed to be, I'm a parent and I've apologized to my mother and father for not listening...they WERE right lol
As for skirt, don't be silly, this is 2010, they do all their chick hunting on MSN :-D
I used to live on the North Norfolk Coast, born and raised.....then moved lol

 

"Cold" is a relative term. Use the handy list below to overcome
the confusion. Degrees (Fahrenheit)

65 - Hawaiians declare a two-blanket night
60 - Californians put on sweaters (if they can find one)
50 - Miami residents turn on the heat
45 - Vermont residents go to outdoor concerts
40 - You can see your breath
- Californians shiver uncontrollably
- Minnesotans go swimming
35 - Italian cars don't start
32 - Water freezes
30 - You plan your vacation to Australia
25 - Ohio water freezes
- Californians weep pitiably
- Minnesotans eat ice cream
- Canadians go swimming
20 - Politicians begin to talk about the homeless
- New York City water freezes
- Miami residents plan vacation further South
15 - French cars don't start
- Cat insists on sleeping in your bed with you
10 - You need jumper cables to get the car going
5 - American cars don't start
0 - Alaskans put on T-shirts
-10 - German cars don't start
- Eyes freeze shut when you blink
-15 - You can cut your breath and use it to build an igloo
- Arkansans stick tongue on metal objects
- Miami residents cease to exist
-20 - Cat insists on sleeping in pajamas with you
- Politicians actually do something about the homeless
- Minnesotans shovel snow off roof
- Japanese cars don't start
-25 - Too cold to think
- You need jumper cables to get the driver going
-30 - You plan a two week hot bath
- Swedish cars don't start
-40 - Californians disappear
- Minnesotans button top button
- Canadians put on sweaters
- Your car helps you plan your trip South
-50 - Congressional hot air freezes
- Alaskans close the bathroom window
-80 - Hell freezes over
- Polar bears move South
- Viking Fans order hot cocoa at the game
-90 - Lawyers put their hands in their own pockets
:-D:-D:-D

 

haha so true

 

Way back in 7th grade I started wearing hoodies at max for a coat. I never wore a coat. Even each winter and to this day I wear normal shirt.. and if its really cold I put on a hoodie. And I still get the marks when I go to my moms house about wearing a coat or Ill get sick. And to this day I refused to get flu shots and you know what.. many years later no sickness and no coat. But I do agree if I had a kid and Id want them to wear a coat cause Id hate to have a bill for doctors for a flu.

 

Could be that some female is keeping him warm

 

lol maybe at school, he comes home and sits on msn, then a snuggie keeps him warm lol

 

This happens around here on a daily basis. Whether is 20 of them or 2 of them, they all think its cool to stand around outside of a McD's with nothing but sweatshirts (shivering to death) in 15 degree weather. I mean because you can't stand around McD's in COAT! What will your friends think? :-D

 

I'm an old codger of 58 and they can think what they want about me. When it gets below 50F, my coat comes out of the closet.(Thin blood with low BP).

 

Just remember, the one thing you said when you where younger like i did, " I'll never whinge at my kids like you do when i'm older " !
BTW no wonder your a whinger your an " Old Farm Yacker " most probably pinning fur yur Traaaaactor ! :-D

 

lol Had to expect that

Although I`m not a farm boy, I`m from a fishing town, I can`t read and I can`t write but I can haul pots lol
And couldn`t I tell ya some yarns from the sea lol

The whole thing about perents telling kids `You`ll thank me one day`It`s so true, but not until you have kids yourself and your parents sit back and laugh and point at you while maniacally giggling the words ``Told Ya`` :-D

 

You're a parent, and you haven't realized yet that all teenagers are inherently stupid? :innocent

 

Oh yeah of course I have lol, even down to the Beavis and Butthead laugh :-D

I also remember being that age, but I'm sure I was different

 

No Mimsy, teenagers are ALWAYS right, aren't they :confused well i was anyway when i was a teenager ! :-D

@Ned, There's a little fishy on a little dishy when the boat comes in ! LOLLOL

 

lol Thats more like it :-D

Well the snows comming down and the windds howling, he thought he was gonna get a snow day lol, bloody well put his coat on this morning lmao

 

:-D Ned your gunner get it in the ear whan he gets a bit older, see thats what you've got to watch out for, if he grows bigger than you he'll whoop your a$$, :-D only joking mate, he sounds like a good kid and he'll have big respect for you anyway !

 

lol Grow bigger than me? Doubtful :-D

He's 17 and 5'11" (there's that 11 again lol) and 125lbs ish.
Me, I'm 6'3"1/4 and 230lbs. He's got a little way to go lol

But yeah he's a good kid for the most part, a few minor incidents with ciggerettes and weed but other than that never caused any real issues.
He's actually my stepson and by his own admittance I'm the only "Real" father he's ever had.... soppy I know but it choked me up, then adds me on facebook as his father.... if I didn't know better I'd say he was wanting something lol

 

Well he comes in from school with coat on but both coat and hoody open leaving just a tshirt covering his chest/belly.
Thats an improvement until he exclaims a half hour later...... "I just don't seem to be able to get warm, I don't know why"

Nedlamar *facepalms*

 

Hey Ned he's only 17 yr old and theres a lot more growing to be done yet !
You said "if I didn't know better I'd say he was wanting something lol" tell him you'll give him some money, but his hands will be to cold to hold onto it, so there's no use :-D watch him start putting his coat AND gloves on then ! :-D

 

lol Thats a possibility. Thing is with him is he makes me feel so guilty (edit: thats not true, I just feel guilty lol) for not giving him money and buying him stuff, I mean I can't afford to especially at the moment but I really want to. But then I think to myself, he's 17, he needs to be finding a job and learning that life isn't handed to you on a plate. Unfortunately something his father has yet to learn and seems to have passed on.
Hell, by the time I was 17 I had been in full time employment for nearly 2 years and had been left home over a year lol
And yes, I did finish and passed everything in school (for those not British, our school high school ends at 16, I just started early lol)

 

My family was pretty poor growing up. And specially when it only got to 400 dollars max a month for a kid and parent plus two story house big basement and all its bills that go with it plus 2 older vechicals. So my mother told me the truth which I already knew we didnt have the money. I had nice clothes my mother always put me ahead of things. Finally I realize Sophomore year in HS when you get 5 bucks a week thats 5 bucks a week. lol But me being school kid didn't want none cool clothes and stuff. So once the family starts going shopping at the discount stores for clothing.. then the kid realizes how much his clothes are better and he/she should be happy even more about his clothing being better then that discount store. I think highschool is a good place to go cept once you get out of it you finally realize that being popular wasnt really anything in life.

 

I object to Mimsy's comment, having been a very intelligent teenager.

Not my fault the old fogey's didn't know it.

 

That statement belongs in the same section as the story of the Great Green eyed , 3 eared, slobbering beast of Clapham Common.

Fiction

 

I kind of went cross eyed reading that until the last line. Never a true word said.
I learnt very early that material things are very low down on the list of priorities in the grand scheme of things.

 

Material things in life can be replaced, life itself can't, so thats why they're so low down in the pecking order !