Veronica+L’s+OpEd+Article




 * Shut Up.**

Often when I try to voice my opinion in school, at track, or even at home, I regret it. Once I start talking I hear mumbling, mumbling, and even more mumbling. I’m sorry but I did not get the memo that we were still in kindergarten. It is rude, disrespectful, and downright wrong to talk while someone else is trying to talk.

Don’t people learn? No, probably because they have never had anyone talk while they were talking; they don’t know how it feels like. It is embarrassing. There I am trying to give an answer or comment during class and all I hear are annoying voices on top of mine. It is also even more humiliating when the teacher says to quiet down because someone is talking. When instances like this happen, I don’t want to talk in that class anymore. I don’t want to hear your irritating voice even more than I do now. Then of course once you start saying something everyone is quiet. Is it because of your looks? Popularity? Or maybe it’s because you reveal your body so much people are bound to pay more attention.

I also feel bad for the teachers that have to deal with this. Respect the teacher people! Who gave you the right to talk while they are trying to teach us something? Is it really that hard to just simply shut up? Is the thing that you are saying really that important? If so then raise your dang hand or is that too difficult for you?

Then, as if the day couldn’t get any worse, I go to track practice and once again while my coach is explaining safety rules or anything really, there are those immature boys. Just laughing and talking as if my coach isn’t saying anything. And then when I try to ask a question they are still talking. My coach ignores it but I can’t. I just wish I could get a needle with thread and pierce it through their lips; just try to sew their mouths shut. That would be nice.

At home it isn’t that bad but surprisingly it is my mom who interrupts me more than anyone else. While I am telling my dad something that happened at school she just goes ahead and talks. Yet, it has already been a long day so I just let her talk and I go into my room.

When people talk while I am, it not only makes me mad but also sad. I feel less confident, belittled, and just ignored. So before you go ahead and tell your friend something that is not related to the subject being taught in class remember that you are disrespecting the teacher or your classmate. Don’t be an annoying, disrespectful, little pest.