I don’t know quite how I do it but I am forcing myself to admit that I have one of the most amazingly useful skills on earth. I can make any story boring and any joke sound stupid. I think it might be because I can’t help myself from laughing hysterically halfway through the joke but no matter what no one laughs. Are all my jokes insensitive, un-pc or wholly inappropriate or something? I must have missed something in Joke Telling 101. Stories are even worse. I go off telling my story and before too long I’ve either lost everyone, bored everyone or no one cares to hear my story anyway. When I finish, everyone moves onto a different conversation as if they had all just paused to take a simultaneous sip of coffee and then went on with their conversation.

Sometimes I wonder if it is because I am a teenager. I resent it when my relatives wholesale ignore anything I say and write it off as being the stupid mumblings of another crazed and misguided teenager who will clean themselves up as soon as they realize that no one approves of their bad behavior. It has gotten worse as I have gotten older because I can tell more and more that people really are just waiting for me to shut my hole so life can start up again.

well, that does rot, djno?

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