Posted on 10/24/2013 12:06:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Legally, you’re an adult once you turn 18. By society’s standards, you come of age at more like 21. But as most of us come to realise, you’re not really a proper grown-up for at least 10 years after that. In case you’re not quite sure whether you’ve reached total independence, here are some signs real adulthood has yet to sink in…
1. You’ve been working full-time for six years but you’re still waiting for the summer holidays to happen
2. You sometimes eat cereal for lunch…
3. …and sandwiches for dinner
4. Your ultimate career goal is to get to the point where you can go to work in your pyjamas
5. You go to exhibitions and galleries… using your parents’ Tate membership cards
6. Watching Question Time makes you feel like some kind of wizened old man…
7. …as does listening to Radio 4…
8. …you haven’t quite mustered up the courage for Newsnight yet
9. You’ve been known to return from a weekly food shop with six bottles of wine, three packets of Supernoodles and a single apple
10. You and your housemates do clean the place, but you can’t get it to look as clean as home did
11. You’re still too scared to leave voicemails
12. Your first instinct when a light bulb goes is to call the landlord…
13. …But you realise that’s unacceptable, so you call your dad
14. You don’t usually take your laundry home to Mum, but if you’re going home anyway, you bring a few bits and bobs for her to do for you
15. You’ve realised there’s no point in buying sugar, salt or pepper for your kitchen when you can get those little sachets free in so many food outlets…
16. …and the plastic cutlery is useful for when washing up seems too stressful
17. You spend 30 per cent of your time thinking about ways you could justify getting a puppy even though you work full-time and are out most evenings
18. You do not own a toolbox
19. You do not own an iron and are pretty sure your creased-shirt look is catching on at work
20. You don’t complain in restaurants because it makes you feel too much like your Grandma Joan
21. You eat baked beans for the last 10 days of each pay packet
22. When you see a parent with their toddler in the street, you identify with the toddler and not the parent…
23. …and you wish you could be in a pushchair too
24. You stopped being a student long ago, but you’ve extended your NUS card through trickery and still enjoy discounts almost everywhere
25. Similarly, you’re over 26, but magically still have a Young Person’s Rail Card
26. You’ve lived away from home for years, but your bank statements still go to your parents’ address
27. You took a coat to be dry-cleaned once and talked about it for days because it made you sound so grown-up
28. You still make a Christmas list each year…
29. …and it includes things like ‘Food processor’, ‘Laptop insurance’ and ‘Money’
30. When things get tough – really, really tough – you call your mum
My definition of an adult is someone who has paid all their own bills for one year.
check the nightstand ... under the candy wrappers ... next to the andro-gel ... by the aspirin ... probably covered by the clicker.
What is wrong with cold roast beef sandwiches?
Especially if you cooked the roast beef!
Worse .. (or better?)
I boil water and make the broth, and drink the broth while I munch down on the dry noodles.
Don't knock it ... try it.
Where’d I put those d@mn glasses?
FWIW, I know a guy who takes a spoon covered in Marshmallow Fluff, and dips it into popcorn for a mock-popcorn-ball experience.
I've always owned toolboxes. I thought being a "proper grownup" was when they stopped being furniture.
1. Umm...I’m the Network Administrator for a decent sized school District. So, yeah... I wait in eager anticipation for Summer break so I can have some peace and quiet to go fix all the things they’ve broken over the past school year.
A lot of the rest of that crap is so metro-sexual it could only have been written in either New York or the UK. Change a light bulb? Clean your room? Weep for the species...
You’re still on your parents’ health insurance.
I could feel my arteries harden just reading that.
I agree completely!!
Good one....
Big rule in my house is that you aren’t a grown up, unless you pay ALL your own bills and expesnses. Also, grown up status, and all the inherent perks like not having to follow my rules ALL THE TIME, is revoked if you come back to live in my basement.
Sounds good ... I’ll haf’ta’ give it a try.
You know you are getting old when you have to shave your ears.
I eat it for dinner on occasion.
I just braid.
“You know you’re old when your family talks about you in front of you.” - Rodney Dangerfield
For me these are signs I am too old. I don’t understand half of these points.
Sure. Like this one:
You’re still too scared to leave voicemails
If you came of age in the last century, you may still be too scared of that.
Is voice mail just a pretentious way of leaving a message?
I'm not sure voicemail is really hear to stay, though. Younger people just send texts.
I don’t understand half of these points.
It's British.
Some of it is just strange:
Watching Question Time makes you feel like some kind of wizened old man…
…as does listening to Radio 4…
I guess Radio 4 is like NPR. I don't get the "wizened old man" thing, though.
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