Immaturity and Why It Pisses Everyone Around You Off

We all have things that we do that are immature. For instance, I watched iCarly until I was 24 years old. But, when your immaturity starts messing up other peoples' lives, they're probably going to say something or stab your eyes out with sharp, pointy objects.

At your job at Burger King, it's okay to mess around and have fun every once in a while, ya know at 11:49 pm when there are zero customers and a stoned manager. If it's the peak of business in the day and your boss' boss' boss' boss is in the building, it's probably not a good time to light your farts on fire. I'm not picking on people that work in food service, I did it for four years (not even with the excuse of being in college at the time) and became an assistant manager. I wanted to serve curly fries for the rest of my life, and if that's you, awesome; if not, I understand that you hate your job and your life (probably) and that your paycheck hardly covers your gas back and forth to work, let alone paying for rent, utilities, phones, your monthly requirement of Pokemon cards, whatever. Just please don't make the lives of your co-workers and customers worse by pulling stupid pranks, doing your job on acid (true story, had this happen to me) or going on "break" for four hours (this one too), because their lives suck just as much as yours.

Even if you are really immature and get fired from Burger King, you can probably find another job that is just as awful at McDonald's or Starbucks. Personal relationships, they're a little harder to replace. If you tell your girlfriend/boyfriend/blow-up doll you're going to be home at a certain time and don't show because you and your buddies are out doing bath salts and cannibalizing one another, that's probably going to get around. Unfortunately for you, as an adult, most of your relationships tend to be with people that know one another. I really liked this guy and one of our mutual friends told me how he blew his old girlfriend off AT THE AIRPORT to shoot fireworks with his friend (in September), let's just say, we didn't end up dating. If any of my friends ever ask me about him, I'm going to tell that story FOREVER.

I'm not saying that you need to get a job as an accountant and get married on your 18th birthday, you're absolutely going to make stupid ass mistakes, but you need to realize nothing is ever forgotten and I guarantee you that at least one time in your life, it's going to screw you over.