That last one is the one that gets to me. It is true however. Many teenagers are very lazy. I have friends who are nineteen and yet have never worked a day in their life. They are extremely lazy. Their parents keeping giving them money and they keep taking it. I do not see them working till they are at least out of college. Even then they might just move back in with their parents. That is why this stereotype exists. This picture is what everyone sees as the typical teen. A kid sitting at home watching t.v., playing video games, and being lazy

This stereotype just does not fit for me though. I may fit into the other ones but not this one. Well maybe as a kid, but not sens

e becoming a teenager. While growing up I have always been doing something. In middle school I played sports to pass the time. I played football, basketball, and ran track. Sports usually took up about two and a half hours a night. That left just enough time to do homework. Still however many older people thought that sports where just for fun and that a kid was lazy if he or she wasn't working no matter what age. So over the summers I worked as a plumbers assistant. I ran tools and cut pipe. It was little but it was a job and it kept me busy. Then high school started. This alone was enough to keep me from being lazy. The sports practices got longer and the homework tougher. That left me with even less time at night. Then came the age of freedom. The driving age of sixteen. I immediately got my permit and with that I wanted a car to go along with it. They don't come free however. My parents were not buying my sob stories either. So it was time to get a part time job. I decided to not go out for track that year and go job hunting instead. I found a job as a bus boy at a local restaurant. I could work there on the weekends and still go to school during the week. This kept me very busy. It did let me get a car though. Now I had to pay car insurance. So this meant I had t

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