Nice Smart Have a car Computer competent Rich
Wow, this is one of the worst things to be--being considered "smart" by your friends. I think you guys will be better off being smart AND being considered dumb or mediocre by your classmates. You tell me if it's not true. If they think you are a genius, then they call you everyday for homework help and to copy your homework, and to cheat off of during tests, tutoring, etc. No matter what time it is, there will be a person who will call you while cramming for that big calc test, right? And what do you get for being considered "smart?" Everyone has higher expectations of you, people compare themselves to you, make fun of you for being a nerd (may not apply to all, but most), laugh at you when they somehow manage to do better than you, and ignore you when they don't need academic help. I guess it's good to know that you are a smart person, but having others know isn't very advantageous.
Yes, you are cool since you have a car, but the bad points? Here we go--you have to pay for gas, but that's not that bad if your parents do. Anyway, the most obvious reason--everyone asks you for rides. Take Ivan for example, he practically took the whole high school home last year (okay, fine, he took like 3 people home, but that's everyday!). They don't really thank you for that, and you have to pay for gas, and the people get your new car all dirty and mess up the radio, and when you go to movies, they ask for rides, though they are usually 3 miles out of the way. And if you get a ticket or into an accident, it's all your fault. After a while, people just expect you to give them rides, even if you have to get home right away, and then when you do get home late, your parents yell at you for giving everyone a ride and being home late. So why get a car?!
This used to be worse, but now it's a little better. People call you all the time for a virus, or the hard drive is broken. And sometimes they even tell you to build them computers, and if you are nice too, they want you to do it for free or you can't find it in your heart to charge them. They ask you for HTML help, monitor help, games, burn cds, edit music, download mp3s, find songs for them, fix computer, upgrade computer, etc., and of course, you don't really get anything out of this either, unless you are Hans and ruthless and charge for everything! =) I mean it's better now, they don't make fun of you while waiting for you to fix their computers because computers are so common and pretty much necessary, but before, maybe 6 years ago, when computers weren't everyday things, they called you "computer nerd, geek, etc." Being "good" at computers sucks crap too!
Being rich (though I am not) probably sucks too. People probably ask you to lend them money all the time, and not paying backing because "so-and-so probably won't even notice 10 bucks anyway." They want you to pay for lunch, dinner, buy them expensive gifts, and usually, if you are a guy, a bunch of gold-diggers, excuse me, girls (j/k, but you know there are a bunch of these out there!), will go out with you just for your money. God, being anything but mean and poor with a bike sucks!!!!!!
Well, now you know why being any of those things suck (at least for me). And even worse would be being a combination of those, mostly nice plus something else. If you have "friends" that only call you or talk to you for the reasons I named up there, then maybe he/she isn't as good of a friend as you thought. This is just my little bitter opinion from something I noticed in my life, of course you don't have to agree, and you don't have to read or understand, and I am probably not talking about you, but I guess I suggest that you examine your friendships more carefully because there are a lot of "friends" out there that aren't friends. Sorry if I offended anyone, especially the two people I used as examples up there, hope you've enjoyed (or at least I hope you didn't hate it much) this article. Bye now.