GTKY: Sweet 16

[yalllow]

Hubs and I were discussing his millionaire brother who has a daughter who is turning 16 soon. We are making bets on what car he buys her. Then it prompted reminiscing of what we were doing at 16.

So riddle me this:

1. What was the theme of your 16th party (if you had one)
2. Did you get a car? Did you buy it?
3. Did you have a real job? (Tax deducted job)

[yalllow]

1. What was the theme of your 16th party (if you had one)
Winnie the Pooh. FML no wonder I was a virgin till college. . .
#fatgirlproblem #thirdwheel #theuglyfriendthe"bff"bringsalongtofeelbetteraboutherself
2. Did you get a car? Did you buy it?
My parent bought me an 89 Chevy cavalier and told me to get a job. It cost $500
3. Did you have a real job? (Tax deducted job)
Got a real job washing pots and pans in a nursing home. I estimate I spent thousands keeping that piece of shit running. I worked at age 15 to current day in time. . .

[babycaps]

I was recovering from jaw surgery still and didn't really have a party!
Nope, my parents did not buy me a car at 16, but helped me with $1000 downpayment on a cary that I bought at 17.
I got a job shortly after my 16th birthday at Old Navy and haven't stopped working since in one way or another. I paid for my own car and my parents helped with my insurance until I was in college. I also had to pay for my own phone if I spent beyond a certain number of minutes. Gas was all on me.

[g33kyg1rly]

1. What was the theme of your 16th party (if you had one)

I don't think I had one? I honestly can't remember, lol. If I did, I'm sure it wouldn't have had a theme.

2. Did you get a car? Did you buy it?

Nope

3. Did you have a real job? (Tax deducted job)

Nope

[bandteacher]

My dad threw me a party at a state park. No car. No job.

[Deleted]

No party, I think I jut went out with friends and partied.

No car because according to my mom I wasn't trustworthy (she was right).

I had a job but I cannot remember where.

[sanibel21]

No party.

I had to buy my moms car off of her for $500.

I was working at a pool supply store. And before that I was working at McDonalds. And before that I had a paper route.

[jjsmom80]

1. What was the theme of your 16th party (if you had one)
Didn't have one, spent the night at a rave with my friends.
2. Did you get a car? Did you buy it?
Yup, a 1986 Buick estate station wagon. Totally uncool until i realized i could drive around with 7 of my friends in it at all times.
3. Did you have a real job? (Tax deducted job)
No taxes paid, but I cleaned my parents office every weekend and worked school vacation weeks answering phones, filing and general grunt work for gas money

[ntdane]

1. Didn't really have a theme. Just a small group of friends went to see Titanic in the theater then went shopping with my mom and had a sleepover at my house.

2. My parents didn't buy me a car but they worked at the same place just down the road from our house so they started riding together and let me drive our other car. I was really active in sports and extracurriculars so it was easier for them to let me drive myself.

3. My parents worked on or managed dairy farms most of my life and I started working pretty young. I started working in a restaurant as a busser, then server, when I was 15, but the owner just paid me in cash so I don't think I actually started a tax-deductible job until I was in college.

[northernlghts]

No party and no car but I did have my first job. Worked at a drug store

[monster]

No party, but I did see Rent with my dad, no car, 2 jobs- I worked at a picture framing store and did phone surveys. I had to pay for my own clothes/ expenses from the time I was 13 and save up to pay my way through college. A car would have eaten into those savings.

[maganonymous]

1.) I didn't have a party. Sweet 16's aren't really that big where I'm from.
2.) My parents bought themselves a new car, and gave me the old one! Funny story, they bought a new car again 3 years ago and now I'm actually driving the one that they bought when I was 16.
3.) Yes, I got a job right away when I turned 16. I wanted to go on a trip to Australia with a youth organization, and I got a job to pay for my half of it.

[kaitkat]

No party! Had a job before 16 changed jobs at 16, and got a car from my mom only because it was for me to help out and drive my bro and sis around! My mom was a single mom so I helped out a lot

[angelsnight]

1. No theme, if I remember correctly I drove my friends to play mini golf, then we came back to my house, had cake and ice cream and I think my friends stayed the night.

2. For the first month I had to drive my dad's Mercury Grand Marque, it was HUGE. After about a month or two my brother got a new car so my dad bought his car for me, a 1986 Grand Am (this was in 1995) and I had to buy it when I graduated high school or I had to start walking.

3. I got my first job a month or so after I turned 16, I worked at a city pool.

[linzerd]

Jan 29, 2015 21:36:35 GMT -5 yalllow said:

1. What was the theme of your 16th party (if you had one)
I did the same thing I still do every year for my bday, go to the local fair that always runs through my bday. 
2. Did you get a car? Did you buy it?
Nope. Didn't even get my license until I was 17
3. Did you have a real job? (Tax deducted job)
I got my first job when I was 16, but I don't remember when...I think it wasn't until the following spring. It was at a bakery, and I got fired. 

[MadApple]

1. What was the theme of your 16th party - No party.
2. Did you get a car? Did you buy it? - I bought my own car at 17.
3. Did you have a real job? (Tax deducted job) - Not at 16, but I had one at 17.

[orriskitten]

No theme or big party. Our apartment had recently been flooded with sewage and was gutted, so we sat on folding chairs instead of having a couch. We did play pin the penis on the pervert (a game my godfather had made for one of my grandma's birthdays in the 80s that we still had).

No car. I lived in Brooklyn where we didn't really drive.

Had a few odd jobs here and there. Life guarding at a hotel pool. Started college young and that first summer worked on a movie and the following fall worked in a circus.

[twaffle]

No party, got a trip to London instead.

No car, we can't drive till we are 18 anyway.

No job, not common in Ecuador for kids to work.

[Deleted]

No party

No car

I worked in a convenience store

[threetaboos]

No party.
No car. I bought my own when I was 19. (And I'm making the final payment next month!)
I didn't have a job by my birthday but I did the next month.

[bennieangel]

No party. I don't actually remember what I did - I'm sure with was with my hs boyfriend though.

No car - I bought my own at 17.

I had already been working since I was 14 so no change there. Maternity leave is the only time in 16 years I haven't worked. No wonder I'm tired!

[younglove316]

I don't think I had a party, just maybe got together with some friends.

My parents helped with a car a few months after, Oldsmobile Alero.

My dad owned a restaurant so I was working there.

[fishbulb]

No party - I was away at science camp.

My parents did get me a cheap car, a 1986 Dodge Charger. It ran but we had to replace the alternator every six months or so.

I didn't work work until I was 17 but I did a lot of babysitting before that.

Funny story about the car - my dad put slightly smaller tires on it than are recommended. This makes the odometer reading off so if I thought I was going 55 mph I was really going about 50. My brother ratted him about about 10 years after the fact.

[bsouls]

I think I had two friends sleep over and we probably got pizza.

My parents bought me a car after I graduated - it only cost 3k. And, my older brother was a horrible child/teen. They kept telling me that they'd do something special for me someday, since I didn't give them problems.

I worked a seasonal job my senior year and I ended up just quitting. They would schedule me until like 10pm+ and I was working 40 hours a week at 17. I knew they were going to keep me, because my friends working there left before 9pm and were only scheduled for like 15 hours.

[lostinfaith225]

I don't remeber what I did. Probably hung out with friends.

No car. Didn't get my license til 17.

I didn't start working til the summer before my senior year. I was just baby sitting.

[katie1885]

1. What was the theme of your 16th party (if you had one)

No party...Cake and dinner at my fav restaurant with my family!
2. Did you get a car? Did you buy it?
I got a Chevy Corsica (from my step-moms mom) and then I got into an accident the next moth and totaled it:/. I then had to buy myself the next car (Honda accord).
3. Did you have a real job? (Tax deducted job)
Two jobs- working at a bagel shop and eventually Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory! I think it helped me so much to make my own money...I was way more careful with how I spent it!

[RandomName]

1. No party. I spent my birthday at the DMV writing my drivers test.

2. No car. I bought my own when I was 17.

3. I was working at a big greenhouse company boxing flowers for local shops. I have had a job since I was 16 and legally able to work - babysitting and stuff before then.

[wildhoney4508]

This is hilarious!

My Sweet 16 was Pocahontas themed. So lame. Friends at my house type of party. Oh, and I got dumped. No, I dumped someone?? Hmmm...must have blocked out the pain.

No car- didn't get license in our state till 17, of which I got my sister's car since she by then was in college. '92 periwinkle Civic Hatchback.

I worked at a nursing home.

[human1]

I don't remember if I even had a party. I've never been big on my birthday. Probably just dinner and cake at home.

I didn't have a car then. The next year I bought my moms Neon off her for like $900.

I worked at a Country Kitchen hostessing and bussing tables. Super shitty job.

[nattybumppo]

No party. Though that might have been the year two of my friends "kidnapped" me early in the morning and took me to breakfast in my pajamas?? Was that a thing?? It was either 16 or 17 when that happened.

I got a car shortly after I turned 16. It was a hand me down from my grandma - a 9 year old station wagon with rear facing seats in the back! I loved that car. May have been an old lady car, but I could haul around 6 friends EASILY in it. And more if we tried hard.

No job. Babysat occasionally.