My Ledgie Sweet Sixteen

[DeadliestPoison]

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

So I've been watching the trainwreck that is another MTV-produced display of rich kids with far too much money, My Super Sweet Sixteen.

These kids go all out (on the parents' dime, of course) to have a crazy birthday/debutante/etc party, closing down stores to buy a single dress, renting Hard Rock Cafe, etc. Some of them are decent (there's, like, one girl who actually seemed grateful for what her parents did for her), but the majority of them are spoiled rich kids. Like Ava. Oh, Ava. Ungrateful selfish b!tch if there ever was one. She didn't deserve a party at all. When she was crying at dinner with her parents and her parents ignored her? Awesome.

I'm always thinking, "Holy crap! My 16th birthday was dinner with the 'rents and a cellphone." Which lead me to wonder: What was everyone else's 16th birthday like?

That show sounds like it would make me barf, in the same way that "Simple Life" does. My sweet sixteen? Well, I think I got my license really close to it, so that was good. I think just the whole fam came from stockton, and we had a meal of my choice (my mom's yummy fried in oil tacos) and my favorite cake (german chocolate) and I probably got a lot of money, and some good presents, and spent time with the fam. Although, I remember my cousins were, respectively, 1 year, and 2 months old, so that put a "baby crying" element in...it was good, but I never had a birthday party with my friends until I moved out, so.... My whole family always made a big hairy deal about my birthdays since I was the only child in the fam for 16 years, so that was really great. We did have 3 (old) cars at the time, though, so I suppose driving was the best part.

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

So I've been watching the trainwreck that is another MTV-produced display of rich kids with far too much money, My Super Sweet Sixteen.

These kids go all out (on the parents' dime, of course) to have a crazy birthday/debutante/etc party, closing down stores to buy a single dress, renting Hard Rock Cafe, etc. Some of them are decent (there's, like, one girl who actually seemed grateful for what her parents did for her), but the majority of them are spoiled rich kids. Like Ava. Oh, Ava. Ungrateful selfish b!tch if there ever was one. She didn't deserve a party at all. When she was crying at dinner with her parents and her parents ignored her? Awesome.

I'm always thinking, "Holy crap! My 16th birthday was dinner with the 'rents and a cellphone." Which lead me to wonder: What was everyone else's 16th birthday like?

MTV makes me sick to my stomach, but what a new low. Truly classless and those parents are the ones who should spanked.

My birthday was dull. My grandmother died a few days before it.

[EnchantedSLN]

Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

These kids go all out (on the parents' dime, of course) to have a crazy birthday/debutante/etc party

I go to school with a lot of those people. One of my roomies last year? Her & her twin brother each got shiny new lamborghinis for their 16th birthday, and a party complete with ice scultpures. I don't even remember what I did for my 16th, so that should tell you how memorable it was . I like doing stuff for other peoples' birthdays, but for me it's just another day. I have literally forgotten mine before.

[wondergirl9847]

I didn't have a Sweet 16 party or anything. My aunt took me to Glamour Shots though.

[WelshWitchPMD]

I made my Confirmation 4 days before mt 16th birthday. On that Saturday my parents threw me a surprise Confirmation/Sweet 16 party at my Grandmother's house. It was nothing that exciting just catered food and old relatives that's it.

[StevieNicksEO17]

I just had my sweet sixteen in June

My mom totally surprised me... My friend Juli, Melissa and I were going to this big outdoor mall and after we had to pick up her sister. It was at a hotel and she had to do some dance thing...I didn't even think it sounded weird or anything. There was even a room number and everything we had to go to to "get her sister" so we went to the room and knocked on the door and my mom mom, aunt, grandma and a few other friends all screamed SURPRISE!! It was great...I wasn't expecting it at all. The only thing I could have changed would have been my mom leaving that night. She got this hotel room and it had like two stories, but she insisted on sleeping downstairs and we got upstairs..I wanted her to go home so we could have stayed up all night and been really loud. But nevertheless, it was still a lot of fun.
Here's a random picture while I was opening presents...It isn't a good one but you'll know which one is me becuase I have my one of many FM shirts on!

[StevieNicksEO17]

Wow after I really looked at that picture I realized how dumb I and everyone else looks. LOL. I don't have glasses or braces anymore And we all just got out of the pool in that picture so we're all blah

[GardenStateGirlie]

I went out with my friend Greta. We got into a fender bender picking up her books from her college (she was going to be a freshman that year). Da da. Oh, I think my mom went out to dinner with my nana and her brother and my aunt. I came home and was on my own. Fun times.

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Originally Posted by StevieNicksEO17

Wow after I really looked at that picture I realized how dumb I and everyone else looks. LOL. I don't have glasses or braces anymore And we all just got out of the pool in that picture so we're all blah

You guys look cute, and I thought what your mom/fam did sounded really nice! In fact, it sounds great!

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Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

I went out with my friend Greta. We got into a fender bender picking up her books from her college (she was going to be a freshman that year). Da da. Oh, I think my mom went out to dinner with my nana and her brother and my aunt. I came home and was on my own. Fun times.

Oh, Honey. Oh. Well, to say something good, probably most sixteen year olds would rather be out with their friend then stuck with their fam.
I hope you guys laughed and were silly during the whole "fender bender" time....that's what i would've done...
Wait, you must've gotten some cool presents from your family, though, right?

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Originally Posted by EnchantedSLN

I go to school with a lot of those people. One of my roomies last year? Her & her twin brother each got shiny new lamborghinis for their 16th birthday, and a party complete with ice scultpures. I don't even remember what I did for my 16th, so that should tell you how memorable it was . I like doing stuff for other peoples' birthdays, but for me it's just another day. I have literally forgotten mine before.

Um, *barf* at your twin friends, and happy late 16th to you!
And I admire your unselfish "forget my own birthday, but celebrate others'" quality. I know you made my 30th very special. Well, you and the Mac, of course.

[GardenStateGirlie]

Originally Posted by amber

Oh, Honey. Oh. Well, to say something good, probably most sixteen year olds would rather be out with their friend then stuck with their fam.
I hope you guys laughed and were silly during the whole "fender bender" time....that's what i would've done...
Wait, you must've gotten some cool presents from your family, though, right?

Well, we were out for like, 3 hours. Her stepfather is super strict so had she come home in her car with her bumper totally smashed, she would have been screamed at. She went and picked up her grandmother and we went hunting for a bumper at a junkyard. Woot. Sixteen. I think my family and I ended up going to Dave and Busters a few days later. Whatever. I got a car when I graduated high school. That made up for the suck of my sixteenth birthday.

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Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

Well, we were out for like, 3 hours. Her stepfather is super strict so had she come home in her car with her bumper totally smashed, she would have been screamed at. She went and picked up her grandmother and we went hunting for a bumper at a junkyard. Woot. Sixteen. I think my family and I ended up going to Dave and Busters a few days later. Whatever. I got a car when I graduated high school. That made up for the suck of my sixteenth birthday.

Oh. Not to good. But you're right, the car totally makes up for it! I've totally been trying to get one of my parents 3 cars for years, and although my dad is for it, The Mom always puts the kibosh on.
congrats!

[pianogirl04]

All I really remember about my sixteenth birthday was being in a knee brace. I was in a cheerleading accident two days before homecoming and I was waiting on an orthopedist appointment to find out if I'd have to have surgery or not. I think I got some jewelry that year, but that's all I honestly remember. I was about to say I got my keyboard that year but I got it the year after that, so...