25 Signs You've Grown Up

carju1 · #1 (**permalink**) 10-07-2003, 09:57 AM

25 Signs You've Grown Up:

1. Ninety percent of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
2. oops adult content.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. Six 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 darn kids next door won't turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling rude 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 McDonalds leftovers.
15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 p.m.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of buffalo wings at 3 a.m. 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 stuff."
21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
22. "I just can't drink the way I used to," replaces, "I'm never going to drink that much again."
23. Your house plants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.
24. You no longer drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you.

woohooo I'm not getting old as #21 doesn't apply (I eat chocolate and drink coffee for breakfast)

Julian

showerherbaby · #2 (**permalink**) 10-11-2003, 07:53 PM

LOL. Dang! (oops, there's another one).

rocky1 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-12-2003, 08:30 AM

Either Carju grew up stateside or this is 25 signs that growing up is universally equilateral; it knows no borders or boundaries!

It would appear however I'm over the hill because I could realate to all. (With exception of the science diet, but that's only because I got too old to enjoy the dog!)

Well done!

Rocky

wenwilder · #4 (**permalink**) 01-20-2004, 03:27 AM

Frank and Henry are two old retired widowers. One day, as he drinks his morning coffee, Henry opens the morning paper and turns to the Obituary page.

He gets the shock of his life when he sees his own obituary in the column. He realizes that the query for info on him by the local newspaper several months earlier, was in preparation for this event. He correctly surmises that it is a mistaken entry from their database, premature and erroneous..

It still excites and rankles him, so he calls Frank up. "Frank, are you up yet?"

Frank sleepily answers, "Yeah, but I'm only now starting my coffee."

"Frank. open the newspaper to page 31."

"Why, what's in the paper?"

"Frank, get the paper and open it to page 31 NOW!"

"OK, OK, I've got the paper here, so what's in page 31?"

"Frank, open the paper to page 31 already!"

"All right, don't be such a pain so early in the morning already. So, what's on page 31 that's so important?"

"Frank, look at the bottom of column 4."

"Why? What's that story on?"

"Frank, read the story on the bottom of the column already!"

"OK, OK, I'll start reading the column if you stop yelling in my ear!"

The paper rustles for a few seconds, then a long silent pause ensues.

Finally, Frank comes on the line quietly and fearfully, "So Henry, where are you calling me from right now?"

matauri · #5 (**permalink**) 01-20-2004, 04:27 AM

This must have been a thread I missed!

So glad to know I haven't reached the age of fossils yet! Only scored a couple of signs of age:

8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14. (though here its 28)
13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.

Phewww....got a few good years left in me yet :-)

And Julian..you kindred spirit! :-)

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Originally Posted by carju

(I eat chocolate and drink coffee for breakfast)

LOL @ Wen.... follow the light dear ;-)

Cindy

Unclefussy · #6 (**permalink**) 01-20-2004, 10:04 AM

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3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.

I have a fridge in the garage just for beer.

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18. Eating a basket of buffalo wings at 3 a.m. would severely upset,rather than settle, your stomach.

No it will not,, and can I have a beer to go with that.

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24. You no longer drink at home to save money before going to a bar.

I ONLY drink at home.

Must have some youth left....;-)

mikmik · #7 (**permalink**) 01-20-2004, 12:32 PM

carju1 listed this

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11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling rude jokes around you.

Ya, but you don't feel any more comfy around them.
When visiting at Christmas, we were joking around and just generally talking. My 38 yr. old little brother says something like how both of our parents were kind of shy, and he wonderred who got things going aka 'made the first move' when he was concieved, and my 88 yr. old (young!) grandma deadpans, "you should know, you were there."
I spllit a gut, but it just doesn't sound right when your grandma says it. Isn't anything sacred anymore? lol

LauraB · #8 (**permalink**) 01-20-2004, 01:42 PM

4. Six a.m. is when you get up, not when you go to bed.

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How DOES this happen!?! My hubby cooked kids breakfast for years. All my friends used to know that they could not call me in the am. Even businesss associates apologized if a meeting had to be scheduled before 9.

Now, I am up at 6 and ready for bed at 10. Hubby and son gripe that I ruin their routine by demanding a section of the section of the newspaper at breakfast. Dog follows me around expecting that we will go back to bed. Cat suspects I am up to no good.

HELP I'm old and I can't get back.

EJRS.COM · #9 (**permalink**) 01-20-2004, 07:08 PM

Call Me Peter Pan

I ain't ever growing up. I am 31 and people still ask what school I go to. I musta tripped and fallen into the Fountain of Youth at some stage in my life.

vfaulkner · #10 (**permalink**) 01-21-2004, 01:32 AM

-- Classmates call me ma'am!
-- Gray hair popping up!

but then again,I get id/carded everywhere, even to see movies...

wclew · #11 (**permalink**) 01-21-2004, 01:50 AM

One thing that made me realize that I'm growing up just happened a few weeks ago. I rented the movie "Bad Boys 2" and could not believe all of the cussing in that movie. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a prude, I cuss some too. But that movie was rediculous, they used the F-word every other word! It was so much that it became annoying.

wclew · #12 (**permalink**) 01-21-2004, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by vfaulkner

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but then again,I get id/carded everywhere, even to see movies...

I never got carded, I bought beer in high school. HaHa.

redcircle · #13 (**permalink**) 01-21-2004, 01:58 AM

I get carded for smokes... but not for beer

vfaulkner · #14 (**permalink**) 01-21-2004, 12:01 PM

I think it might be bc I am only 5'0" tall.
I have been told I have a 'youthful' face and attitude. Eeww,what kind of a compliment is that!?

I'm 9/10 years older than a lot of my classmates.

LauraB · #15 (**permalink**) 01-21-2004, 12:33 PM

Hey Vickie,

Is that nine tenths of a year older than your classmates or nine or ten years older than your classmates?

Just wondering...

My oldest daughter has the same problem. Eventually she will be grateful. Now, she gets tired of people asking her if it's hard being a teen age mother! (She is 26 and a Coast Guard officer!)

Unclefussy · #16 (**permalink**) 01-24-2004, 12:18 PM

Hello, I work in a place that sells liquor and smokes and we have a rule if they don;t look 40 Card'em.
The ones that get the most upset is the guys between 18 and 21. LOL
Not the girls they love it.
I carded a gal the other day, she love it, she was born in 1973.. Big smile on her face, even said Thank you!

wclew · #17 (**permalink**) 01-25-2004, 10:56 PM

One sign that I'm getting older is that I just don't even want to drink anymore, it just makes me feel terrible. I can't remember the last time I had a drink...uh oh, alzheimers setting in, another sign of aging. ;o)

Unclefussy · #18 (**permalink**) 01-26-2004, 07:53 AM

The thing I miss the the most the older I get is my ......? My.... My.. ?
Oh Ya My Mind!...;-)

vfaulkner · #19 (**permalink**) 01-26-2004, 02:10 PM

Laura, LOL! I meant 9 or 10 years older...

LauraB · #20 (**permalink**) 01-26-2004, 03:58 PM

Oh, I see Vickie! Thanks for the clarification.. lol I thought maybe that you were regressing to the favorite childhood aging system whereby tou quantify half. As in I am 4 and a half.

Old people do this too. When they reach 80 plus, they feel it is important to add the half again. I for one am at the age when, until the day of my birthday I am the age I turned on my last birthday.