At this last Country Thunder, my mother and I had those special seats between the regular seating and the V.I.P. seating, and I was annoyed a nice chunk of the time because... You see, those seats are assigned, you don't get a choice whom you sit by, and to our right was this group of obnoxious girls. Two were clearly college girls, whom, yes, fit the wild college girl stereotype perfect, so I'm not about to call them women. They were loud, they were annoying, they were drinking, smoking cigarettes in such a close-bunched seating arrangement, and they would discuss some inapropriate things from the campgrounds.

I say that TWO of them were college-bound, but there were three, and all three had beer bands and were drinking. The third girl in this group was a rather young petite and obviously the little sister or cousin to one of the older girls. You could tell off the bat that this girl was probably... Quite specifically... Fifteen. She was much quieter, would kind of hide behind the others more so than just using them to clear her way through crowds. You could 100% tell that this petite fifteen-year-old was just slipping by security to drink, and had they caught her, she would have played angry, seriously offended young adult petite. But, I'm a young adult petite, and I can tell the difference; this girl was fifteen.

There are two serious problems I'm getting at with this...

1) Non-petites aren't very observant of petites so have difficulty determining their ages. It's not that they can't tell, it's that they're not really trying. It's just as easy to tell a teenage petite from a young adult petite as it is to tell such ages apart of greater heights, but they aren't looking as closely at petites. Why not? They're probably afraid to get it wrong.

2) The other problem this puts emphasis on has nothing to do with petites. Right now it seems that almost every teenage girl is trying to pretend to be anywhere from one to ten years older than she is, not just to get into R movies, they're seriously trying to be grown women, and get highly offended when a real adult reminds them, even in a friendly manner, of their being children. This problem is probably far worse, far larger, and more widely spread of teenagers of now than it has ever been in the history of this entire planet.