
Apparently you are grown and responsible gentlemen/women when :
- Your houseplants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them.
- Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
- You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
- 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
- You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
- You watch the Weather Channel.
- Your friends marry and divorce instead of “hook up” and “break up”.
- You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
- Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as “dressed up”.
- You’re the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door won’t turn down the stereo.
- Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
- You don’t know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
- Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
- You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald’s leftovers.
- Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
- You take naps.
- Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
- Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather than settle, your stomach.
- You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and pregnancy tests.
- A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer “pretty good shit”.
- You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
- “I just can’t drink the way I used to” replaces “I’m never going to drink that much again”.
- 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
- You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
- When you find out your friend is pregnant you congratulate them instead of asking, “Oh shit, what the hell happened?”
Something sent in an email awhile ago … it’s a bit hard to tell whether I’m not totally ‘grown up’ yet or if I was just never that young. How about you?

Thanks, az! Now I don’t feel so old anymore because so many don’t apply – 23, 21, 15 and four especially.
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I’m pretty sure i was never that young, but conversely I’ve never moved that much since, so I’m still younger then most of my contemporaries.
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I am NEVER going to hear # 5 or watch # 6
NEVER
they wouldn’t turn nick cave into elevator musak would they?
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I sometimes think I was old even when I was young!
Not grown up or responsible (and I could find a few witnesses to agree with the second one) necessarily but . . .
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Well, except for 5 and 6, I seem to fit the criteria.
I’m not surprised that you, too, are a fan of Calvin & Hobbes. 🙂
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#2 is actually OK, as long as you don’t have to sleep in the same bed afterwards. I mean you can always lift them back in the bed should you feel for more…
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I’m definitely in transition between the two – so many only half apply, or do or don’t apply for the wrong reasons (e.g. awake till 6 AM, but b/c of work).
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I am horrified at how much of this is true.
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#5 has happened more times for me at the local grocery store (I don’t think I’ve ever heard music in an elevator before).
#7 definitely true!
#17 Dinner AND Movie? More like just dinner.
Damn–I am old.
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Calvin & Hobbes rule! I also have the daily C&H cartoon widget on my Netvibes page. 🙂
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I’m in a constant state of denial about being what is technically considered “an adult.” It does disturb me when I hear songs I like at the grocery store.
As for houseplants (#1), there are no such things living in my house. Unless you consider the things growing in my vegetable drawer. (I think those are technically considered “onions.”) And for #21, does it count if you also eat breakfast foods for lunch and dinner? Because a bowl of cereal is often just about all I can manage.
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Three days on a business trip and I’ve been living the Peter Pan Syndrome. But once I get home tonight, it’s fossil city. Can’t hang like I used to… (Ouch…)
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Well, I’m obviously not as young as I used to be. And I probably never was.
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daisyfae – that corresponds frighteningly well with what I just commented on az’s post on Blackbird…
I don’t think I’ve been that old always. It just feels that way 😉
Thanks Bob, #8 doesn’t quite relate to Denmark – I have 6 weeks of vacation 🙂 But 17, 20 and 23 are all too real.
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“they wouldn’t turn nick cave into elevator musak would they?”
Don’t be too sure about that, nursemyra. It seems nothing is sacred when it comes to elevator musak.
The only things on this list that ‘resonate’ for me are maybe…
14. except I used to feed them supermarket cat food many years ago, not -ick – McFood, which isn’t suitable for either man nor beast.
17. agree with CJ – both would be a pretty special date
20. in Spain a 4 euro bottle of wine is actually quite satisfactory.
22. I say both of these things quite regularly talking about the ole vinito … nothing about ‘replacing’.
23. I wish!
25. Yes, this is usually the case.
Meanwhile… have never smoked my house plants,and the only ones I can have at casa az have to be well out of cat’s reach. I’ve always kept a well-stocked fridge in terms of tasty food – even when I was 15 and had my first apartment on my own. The Weather Channel – huh? Vacations – huh? Taco Bell – huh? Haven’t worn jeans for about 25 years (what gawd-awful uncomfortable things they are!). Car? Not for about 25 years. Sleeping on the couch – why? Chicken wings? – waste of calories. I only go to the drug store to fill my tranq prescription and order meds for my cat Sunny – have never had a headache in my life. And I always feel worse after a nap than before…
Also agree with dq that having sex in a twin bed is quite fine as long as you don’t have to both sleep together in it afterwards…
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“they wouldn’t turn nick cave into elevator musak would they?”
Doesn’t seem likely, nursemyra …
Old Nick
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