25 SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP
25 SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP
1. Your houseplants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 a.m. is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of “hook up” and “break up.”
8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as “dressed up.”
10. You’re the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won’t turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. You don’t know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald’s leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You take naps.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
19. You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer “pretty good shit.”
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
elle November 6, 2006 at 6:57 pm
sigh. i’ve been grown up all my life by the sounds of things. alas, this isn’t the first time i’ve wondered what it’s like to act my own age.
Elie November 6, 2006 at 2:24 pm
I don’t understand #2.
Jack's Shack November 6, 2006 at 6:04 am
Six am?
I sometimes miss those days. To have no responsibilities…..
The Misanthrope November 5, 2006 at 7:16 pm
This is so right on the money. I called Daughter yesterday at 12:30 p.m. and she was just waking up. I said what time did you get home, she replied, “six this morning.”
No wonder she wanted her own apartment.