THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 24, 1994 TAG: 9406230047
SECTION: DAILY BREAK PAGE: E14 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY HOLLY WESTER, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: 940624 LENGTH: Medium
So does mother. And sister. And brother.
{REST} At this week's Teenspeak near Lynnhaven Mall in Virginia Beach, seven teenagers had family members to name when asked, ``Who was the last person you yelled at?''
Trooper Merriam, 19, a rising sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, recalled recently giving his dad an earful. Trooper, whose Visa bill is ``very far out of control,'' wanted to spend his money on something besides paying down his burnt up card. His father disagreed.
``I yell at him all the time and he yells at me, too,'' Trooper said. ``He's used to it, I'm used to it . . . it all works out.''
Sisters were on the scream list, too. Joel Tucker, 17, a Virginia Beach home school student, remembered hollering at 12-year-old Julia for stepping on his foot. The day before, Joel had cut the bottom of it with a surfboard fin.
``How could you miss it?'' Joel asked, pointing at the thick white gauze wrapped around his foot.
A privacy violation is what caused Jessica Orlowski, 18, of Virginia Beach, to holler at her mom a week before she graduated from Norfolk Academy. Her mom perused a poetry project without permission.
``All I could say was, `Why did you look through it?' '' Jessica said.
But Jessica regrets the argument and said graduation stress had much to do with her snap. ``Now that I think about it, it wasn't a big deal,'' she said. ``We worked it all out.''
But Christie Cunanan, 17, a rising senior at Salem High School in Virginia Beach, is not so forgiving when it comes to her 15-year-old brother, Alfredo. ``I yell at him all the time,'' she said. ``He always wants to drive my car.''
Another brother battler, Cristal Siscar, 16, also a rising senior at Salem, last yelled at 13-year-old Jaime for telling mom and dad something she didn't want them to know.
``It makes me angry because it's my business, not his,'' she said. ``He's just telling on me to get me in trouble.''
Tiffany Marshall, 14, a rising freshman at Green Run High School in Virginia Beach, last fought with her brother Alan when he swiped and lost her house keys and collection of key chains.
Although Alan has lost some of Tiffany's other belongings, including a Walkman and cassette tapes, she occasionally feels guilty for tearing into him. ``But other times, he deserves it,'' she said.
An after-school squabble was what caused Tasha Mathis, 15, a rising junior at Green Run, to yell when her 17-year-old brother, Tony, tried to pull her away from her friends to give her a ride home.
``I felt like I was right,'' she said. ``When he talks to his friends, he runs his mouth all he wants. When it comes to my friends, I don't have time to say anything.''
Even though Tasha thinks yelling at her only older sibling gets the point across, she said it's not always the solution: ``Sometimes yelling isn't the best thing to do. . . especially if someone's yelling at you.''
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