Now I'm not talking about my parents I'm talking about other adults. So...for the past 3 times I've went out to my local water park to artificially surf(flowboard) I've had problems with adults(parents specifically) getting upset at me when I'm keeping kids from cutting, fixing the line to go smoother and explaining to them why someone would be doing something. Now to give you something to picture me as: I've been Flowboarding for three years and have strictly been doing the surf for those years every day when the park is open. I'm not a child but I do want to explain I am still pretty young. I'll explain each scenario for anyone who feels like reading them. 1: I'm sitting in line about to be my turn when some random kids come out of nowhere and walk right in front of me and the kid right next to me. I promptly ask them to come back and explain that we have been waiting in line. Their mom happened to be right there and asks "Do you work here or something?" I explain that no I don't but I have experience with how the park works and what their rules are. She kept giving rude comments about how I'm keeping her kids from riding when in reality I was trying to keep them from running in front of me. 2. Next day, sitting in line again when I got tired of how the line was set up(you are supposed to wait behind the red line until you get a board handed off to you and then walk it to the entrance of the surf). So what I did, like me and many other competitive riders have done in the past, was sit where the red line is so that everyone else who wanted to ride after me would funnel in a spot where it's the easiest to get the boards and just makes the line move faster. After about 2-3 minutes everything is fine until someone out of nowhere says "I know you think you are doing the right thing, but you are only making the line worse." I explained to the man that I've had some experience with the line and in my opinion this is the quickest way to get the line moving, which happens to be the park policy. He then says "yes but I've been standing here for about 10 minutes and I've seen more ppl wipe out in the back." Me: "Well sir I've seen more people slide right down the side drain then I've seen fall out the top..." At this point he cuts me off, repeats himself and walks off. 3. So, sitting in line again when the man next to me sparked a conversation with me, he had noticed that I was experienced and was saying "man I'm glad those kids who where out here yesterday aren't here today, they kept yelling at the kids on the ride to do tricks while they were on the ride...and well they just wanna have fun but these other guys are ruining that for them." I was like " wellll...I know who you were talking about and what it sounds to me the kids were riding for a pretty longtime. What I know of my friends is that they like to encourage the new guys to do different tricks." But then he went on about how they just seemed like entitled brats(they were actually legally adults and not at all spoiled) and how they probably don't even work. I said "well..." And then he continued to cut me off and say "you probably don't work either and that's where I said "no I don't technically work yet but I've applied for a job and have an interview Monday." He said oh ok and then went on about how these kids parents have high paying jobs and can just buy them what ever they want(which is not true) and then asks "what do your parents do (expecting some really high up job) "actually my dad is a garbage man and my mom is a teacher." At that point the man realizes that his argument has crumpled in his hands and switches the subject entirely away from the annoying kids. I just have this feeling that a good amount of adults are trying to treat me differently and think I'm not capable of thinking for my self which really started to piss me off. I can enjoy nice conversations with adults, I don't spend my day doing drugs and having sex like a mindless teen. But I guess what are you going to do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯