Everyone Else

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Not really a TAAT, but inspired by the teen party thread,I just wondered if anyone else would like to share their experiences of that mystery teen Everyone Else, and/or their amazingly accomodating parents?
I'll start.
Apparently Everyone Else wears black skinny jeans to school. I pointed out to my DD that it is categorically against uniform rules, but no, it would be OK because Everyone Else wore them.
Well, the head of year only told my DD off today for wearing them, didn't she? And what's worse, she walked right past Everyone Else (who was wearing skinny jeans of course ) and singled my DD out for punishment.
I can't understand it at all

Everyone else is allowed to buy smiggle EVERYTHING!

Everyone Else is allowed to wear make up. ...But you're 10. You don't need a face full of slap.

Everyone Else gets pocket money and doesn't have to keep their room tidy/put clothes away /generally gets to be a lazy slob...Well, good job they don't live in our house then.

Everyone else has an iPhone. ...iPhones are crap. (Imo)

@metalmum15 I think that’s my favourite response to everything

‘Good job x isn’t my kid/doesn’t live in this house’.

My mother used to say it too and it drove me nuts!

Everyone Else was allowed to go to Nappy Nite Disco for 13-17 year olds as soon as they turned 13.

It was perfectly safe as they had lots of bouncers all the way round the dance floor

And All The Other Girls were getting a lift, half an hour journey on dual carriageway, with someone's older brother who had just passed his driving test the week before.

He had very kindly agreed to take all 7 of them in his Corsa!

A-freaking-men about Fortnite! Everyone Else apparently plays it.

Bananas 😆 I often wonder if my dcs tell their friends 'you wouldn't want to live in our house'!

What on earth is nappy nite disco?! Do all the teens turn up wearing giant nappies?

Everyone else is allowed to stay awake all night on a Friday and Saturday night on marathon gaming sessions on Fortnite said my DS aged 12.

I checked with a couple of other parents so I could confidently say "er no they don't but nice try sunshine" 🙄

Everyone else has custom built scooters costing £300 or more said same DS aged 12.

Everyone Else has bloody Fortnite says my 9 year old.

Everyone Else has sweets and fizzy pop in their lunchbo, eeven though its against school rules, says the same 9 year old.

My answer to both of these is that I'm not Everyone Else's mum but I am yours and I've said no.

Nobody Else has to tidy their room/put their clothes away/help set and clear the table. Tough, you're being raised to do your share of household chores and not leave them to your partner/imaginary house elf.

Everyone else in the whole entire world has snapchat.

Except dc.

Life = over.

It's Everybody Else's Mum that I'm in awe of. She rocks!

Many years ago, my girls wanted to go to the fair with their friends. (Can't remember how old they were, but not old enough to go on their own)
Everyone else is, they cried. Good, I replied, they can tell you all about it when you next see them in school.

Everyone Else's Mum was happy for their then 14 year old daughters to camp out in a field in the middle of nowhere with about fifteen 18/19/20 year old males, and Everyone Else's Mum was merrily providing bottles of vodka for their DD's to drink at the camp.

On the other hand when I was 14 Everyone Else's Mum actually was happy for their DC to safely get the last bus home at 10pm rather than walk home on their own up country lanes to be in for 9:30.
Also Everyone Else's Parents did allow their DD's to stay at Lizzie's Dad's caravan and we really were just planning to do makeovers and watch DVD's, Daaaad-uh

Everyone else has a fitbit (according to dd1 aged 7)

@Everyone else is allowed to buy smiggle EVERYTHING!
I actually think this is true. I think dd's school has more smiggle stock than the smiggle shop in town tbh

Everybody else gets £10 off the tooth fairy.

Today's was "Everybody else has a lightening bolt shaved into their hair!!!"

I thinks not.

Oh and "Everyone else has a fitbit."

Boy you are 9 years old and I am 100% sure that not everybody in your year has a damn Fitbit

Everyone Else has £70 shoes for school.
Everyone Else’s skirt is all rolled up too.
Everyone Else has the £1,000 iphone.
Everyone Else goes to Brazil or Florida or Sweden for half term.
Everyone Else has gel nails at school.

Nobody Else’s parents call to find out what the sleepover parents are like and what the plan is.
Nobody Else is treated like a house elf cleaning their own room.
Nobody Else knew about the homework and Miss has it in for her.
Nobody Else arrives at school 30 minutes before the bell.
Nobody Else goes to the revision class.

"Everyone else picks their nose!" (My DD is 4

And she's absolutely right!

Metalmum in my home town Nappy Night was a teen disco run at the local night club, I'm sure it had a proper name, but that is how the whole town referred to it. It finished about 10 and obviously no alcohol was served.

In actuality nobody over the age of 15 went anywhere near it, as by that point it was perfectly possible to get served in half the pubs!

Everyone else goes on shopping trips to River Island every weekend. And has friends over on a near daily basis. (9)

Today I found out Everyone Else is allowed to text all night rather than giving in phones before bed.

Also, Everyone Else got detention too.