1. Your clothes are hella torn up and adorned with patches and buttons, hopefully of your favorite bands. Such wonderful accessories can be bought at a brilliant store we call Hot Topic. Just ignore all the goth stuff! 

2. You go to every show you possibly can, regardless of who plays just to be seen as a member of the 'scene'. 

3. You buy shirts of popular yet respectable punk rock bands who's music you've never actually heard, but your punk-as-hell friend assures you they are "da bomb". 

3. Spikes never hurt... 

4. Do lots of drugs. Unless the only punk music you listen to is "straight edge" in which case you can't engage in pre-marital coitus or drink caffeine. As an addition to this, buy a Minor Threat patch and put it on your corporate America bought Jansport backpack so everyone can see how punk you are. 

5. Your hair better have been a different color at one point or you are out of the club! 

6. Speaking of hair, hopefully you've already had a mohawk. Unless of course your mom won't let you get one, in which case make a reference to the AFI song "I Wanna Mohawk (but my mom won't let me get one)" to various friends and laugh about it. 

7. Go down to the clothing store and buy yourself some of those nifty Converse shoes. Wearing two different shoe colors is worth ten punk points! 

8. Must develop and intense hatred for MTV and become visibly angry whenever anyone mentions it, going as far to tear people down for their honest to God preferences. 

9. As an extension of that rule, any heretofore punk band that enjoys MTV time (Blink 182, Green Day, the Offspring) must have a punk jihad declared on it, meaning you must declare a holy war on these bands who are just trying to put food on the table and expose people to their music. 

10. Whenever asked of said bands who broke out into mainstream popularity you must always utter a barely perceptible swear word before saying wistfully, "I liked their old stuff." 

11. Develop an intense hatred toward other scenes. Mock rap as simply the "same thing over and over again" and everything else as "too slow and boring". Because as all punk rockers should know, punk is hella not the same thing over and over again and it never gets boring! 

12. Become an elitist and treat people like scum. 

13. The more underground the better. It doesn't matter if the music sounds horrible, as long as it's underground it has to be good. 

14. When you get older you might want to consider some nice tattoos. 

15. Once again develop a hatred of all authority figures except for fire fighters, cause come on, who could hate a fire fighter? 

16. Own braces. 

17. Find out what braces are. 

18. Be sure to "fuck shit up" whenever possible. 

19.Oh yeah, I almost forgot, steal. 

20. Write long lists generalizing a certain type of people, thus making yourself seem even more close minded than those who you mock...Oh shit Scratch that one punk rockers!