So how many of you 'feel' like an adult?

[noble]

It's really weird.

I'm going to be 36 in a few weeks. We own our own house, car, have a 14 month old baby, been married going on 16 years...

yet I don't feel like a grown up.

I mean I know I am, but it just doesn't feel like I am.

Am I the only one that feels this way, or are there others out there that keep waiting for something to happen or what not to go NOW you're an adult.

It's very weird.

[Ryudo]

You're old!

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[Tschloendorn]

It comes and goes for me.

[RebootedCorpse]

I think it is a particular condition of our generation.
I have a hard time imagining my dad in his late 30s and 40s reading comic books and playing video games.

[Maxwell]

Nope.

[EdNEMO]

I do not feel like an adult. Ever.

[jason hissong]

I didn't until about midway through last year.

Somedays I don't. Somedays I do.

[Lyfeforce]

Not at fucking all and it's actually starting to mess with me a bit.

I always thought there was this moment when you just realized that the stuff you liked as a kid just never interested you anymore (and thus began liking home improvement television, hogging the remote and never getting off the couch). A moment kind of like how one day girls were yucky and the next it's Schwing! I'm finding that's not the case.

[Generic Poster]

It's really weird.

I'm going to be 36 in a few weeks. We own our own house, car, have a 14 month old baby, been married going on 16 years...

yet I don't feel like a grown up.

I mean I know I am, but it just doesn't feel like I am.

Am I the only one that feels this way, or are there others out there that keep waiting for something to happen or what not to go NOW you're an adult.

It's very weird.

I'm with. 36 in less that two weeks. Married ten years, two kids, job, minivan, mortgage, yet I still have a hard timie thinking of myself as an adult.

[Maxwell]

I'm 17, though, so there's no reason to feel like an adult.

[Cth]

Same here.

I blame the video games, comics, and repeated viewings of Yo Gabba Gabba.

[RickLM]

My father-in-law comes over to my house and talks about these house repairs we're going to do and I'm like, "whatever." So yeah, I feel like I should start being more concerned about adult things but I have a hard time with it. I just find a lot of it boring.

[noble]

Not at fucking all and it's actually starting to mess with me a bit.

I always thought there was this moment when you just realized that the stuff you liked as a kid just never interested you anymore (and thus began liking home improvement television, hogging the remote and never getting off the couch). A moment kind of like how one day girls were yucky and the next it's Schwing! I'm finding that's not the case.

Yeah same here.

It's really weird.

I keep waiting for my life as an adult to start, and hell it's half over already.

I mean I know I've matured and don't make a lot of the stupid mistakes I did as a teenager, but I don't behave, or think of myself any differently than I did back then.

I'm going to be a senior citizen one day wondering when I'm going to start adulthood at this rate :D

[Maxwell]

"Adult" stuff is boooring! Like taxes!

[noble]

You're old!

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Get off my lawn you damn kids!

[leafinsectman]

I feel like an adult when I have to pay the bills, that's about it. My question to you is, just how old you you feel?

[The Dean]

I've been starting to feel it lately. I'm 32 but I've got a bad case of Peter Pan syndrome.

[Evan the Shaggy]

I'm following the Barney Stinson rule, don't even think about marriage till I'm 30.

[bachman]

Not me.

I'm 28, have a career in the financial world, make decent money, live alone and fully support myself, I've been engaged... but I still don't "feel" like an adut, whatever that means.
When I get home I just want to read comics and play videogames. Sometimes it seems like the "professional" me is just a character.

[RebootedCorpse]

Get off my lawn you damn kids!

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[JoeE]

I thought moving away from home a few years after college and fully supporting myself would help me finally grow up. It's had the opposite effect. I spend more time than ever invested in my geek hobbies now, since I don't have to answer to my parents anymore for wasting my life.

[Lyfeforce]

Same here.

I blame the video games, comics, and repeated viewings of Yo Gabba Gabba.

In your defense, the Yo Gabba Gabba can be blamed on your daughter.

[noble]

I feel like an adult when I have to pay the bills, that's about it. My question to you is, just how old you you feel?

About 17.

Which is the dilema.

I mean it's good to feel young and act young in my every day life, but I keep waiting to 'become an adult'(whatever the hell that means).

Not that I want to mind you, it just seems weird that I'm on the wrong side of 30 and I still don't feel like a grown up.

[Ron Salas]

I'm 33. I feel old, but I don't feel grown up.

[leafinsectman]

About 17.

I'm 27 and I feel like 8.


I mean it's good to feel young and act young in my every day life, but I keep waiting to 'become an adult'(whatever the hell that means).

As long as you're a responsible person then it doesn't really matter how old you feel, right? And as long as the missus is cool with it then you don't really have anything to worry about, she's the only one you gotta please anyway. The younger you feel the better I say :)

[Cth]

In your defense, the Yo Gabba Gabba can be blamed on your daughter.

Can it?

/put 150 songs from YGG on my Zune last month
//finding new bands because of YGG all the time

[gaspar]

It comes and goes for me. Last night I had one of those "I remember my parents doing this shit when I was a kid" moments. I felt very much like an adult for most of the night. But overall, I usually feel like I'm getting close to that point (at 33), but not quite to that point yet...have been stuck at that level for a while.

[mattbrand]

I'm 34 but I feel young, mostly from playing video games, collecting toys and stuff like that. But also from hanging out with my 8 year old daughter, and getting to do things that kids like to do. I think feeling young keeps you young.

I swear, I go to the parent teacher conferences at her school, and the other parents from her class LOOK old. They are only a few years older than me but they dress older and just look much older than my partner and I.

[noble]

Yeah I still wear torn jeans and hoodies from time to time.

At what point am I supossed to wear a suit and tie, and read the paper with a pipe dangling out of my mouth?

[Jim T.]

I'm actually a few years older than my Dad was in otherwise the exact same position (house, kids, job, etc.) and I can't believe he felt as immature and clueless then as I do now. But maybe that's what everyone thinks and it turns out our parents were faking being grown ups just as much as we are.

[Jason California]

I thought it was not having kids and being responsible only to myself that was doing it. Now that I know you guys are the same way I wonder I have to wonder.

[Brian Defferding]

Many people associate youth with energy, but I think part of feeling older is the feeling of self identity and self awareness. I'm a lot more comfortable in my own skin now compared to 10 years ago. I know my limits, confronted some of my fears, seen other cultures, experienced relationships and one night stands. Made some mistakes, had some good/bad breaks. I learned how to perservere, and when to kill your darlings. With that in mind, I feel a lot older. But I'm also not weak and tired all the time. So, there's that.

[Gunter]

Only when I get up out of bed in the morning and my body makes all kinds of popping noises, and when I look in the mirror.

Otherwise, never.

Satchel Paige once asked, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?"

I'd say around 17...on a good day.

[costello]

It's really weird.

I'm going to be 36 in a few weeks. We own our own house, car, have a 14 month old baby, been married going on 16 years...

yet I don't feel like a grown up.

I mean I know I am, but it just doesn't feel like I am.

Am I the only one that feels this way, or are there others out there that keep waiting for something to happen or what not to go NOW you're an adult.

It's very weird.

I'm 30. Alter some numbers and everything up there is the same. I feel more responsible now that I have a child, but I don't feel like an "adult." I'm much more aware of my surroundings and stay informed by tuning in to many news outlets, but I don't feel like an adult.

[costello]

Many people associate youth with energy, but I think part of feeling older is the feeling of self identity and self awareness. I'm a lot more comfortable in my own skin now compared to 10 years ago. I know my limits, confronted some of my fears, seen other cultures, experienced relationships and one night stands. Made some mistakes, had some good/bad breaks. I learned how to perservere, and when to kill your darlings. With that in mind, I feel a lot older. But I'm also not weak and tired all the time. So, there's that.

In that case I'm in my late 40s early 50s. :)

[dasNdanger]

Not me...except when the bills come in. :P


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[Doc Randy]

I feel like a senior citizen.

[Mylazycat]

I feel like a senior citizen.

Yet you're only 24.

How tragic.

;-)

[artimoff]

I'm 40 going on 17. :cry:

Recently I stopped being ok with that. I can't say what it is, but I decided that comics, games, DVDs, etc.. had become too important & that it needed to change. :mad:

Then I bought Fallout 3. :razz:

[McAfee]

I don't wanna grow up, cuz if I did...I wouldn't be a Toys 'R Us kid!

(Actually, that may show my age.)

[Mylazycat]

As long as one is mature and responsible, and, if you have kids, they're well taken care of and not neglected, I say do whatever makes you happy in your spare time.

[Lab-Rat]

Nope...don't feel like an adult. then again..I'm only 26...then again...I don't feel like I'm 26. Hell...I don't even know what 26 is supposed to feel like.

[Doc Randy]

Yet you're only 24.

How tragic.

;-)


24? I wish.

[Ashton]

and the thing is we all look like adults to little kids, even though I don't really feel like it.

[WillieLee]

and the thing is we all look like adults to little kids, even though I don't really feel like it.

The trick is to come up to them from their blind spot.

[Gunter]

and the thing is we all look like adults to little kids, even though I don't really feel like it.

I remember when I was 22 I went to visit my sister, who was in rehab. It was a huge rehab center that served adults in one wing, and juveniles in the other.

They shared a common area where they would all smoke. One night I was visiting my sister, and there were a group of kids probably between 14 and 17. One of them said, "Let's go in. There are too many adults out here."

I looked around and it was just me and my sister.

I wanted to go kick his ass.

[JoeE]

and the thing is we all look like adults to little kids, even though I don't really feel like it.

I got asked a few years ago by a little kid if I had any children myself. That was a major "holy shit" moment.

[schizorabbit]

We're like Tom Hanks in Big.

Like a bunch of you, got a house, got a kid, got a job where people call me boss; I've traveled around the world, banged a lot of girls, finished all the school you gotta go to and then some, go to scheduled school-related parent-teachers conferences, and hang out at obligatory social functions for adults (holding a glass of wine and wearing a goddamn suit while some string quartet is playing in the background and talking about mortgage rates and summer homes and private schools and shit like that and feigning interest whenever somebody talks about their boring-ass shit and laughing a lot to look like you're really having a good time), all the stuff I grew up thinking adults did...

...but I always find myself doing shit like fighting the urge to yell out shit like, "BABY JESUS IN DA HOUSE!!!!" or "Whazzup, Bitches??!!!??" when I walk into some serious formal gathering, or thinking stuff like, "Man, I'd like to go all tooty-frooty on that booty," when I see some hot chick. And yesterday, I found myself uberexcited when I came across a bunch of booster packs on clearance at a Toys R Us for a game I play with my son, thinking that I just made my son's--and my own--day.

It's the curse of Generation X.

[Jerome Gibbons]

Well...I'm 21, but I don't feel like it. I feel...I dunno, like I'm 16 or something. It worries me, a bit.

[Dr. Omega]

36, house, wife, two dogs, I am the manager at work.. there are moments of serious life stuff, but generally, I am happy surfing, watching Doctor Who or working on custom action figures.

None of which are things I could ever picture my dad doing at my age. And I don't know why.. he read the Destroyer (Remo Williams) for years and he's the one who got me hooked on comics because he would pick them up from work..

[Mylazycat]

I only know I'm an adult by the fact that the early twentysomethings are not available for me to date anymore and the stiffness in some areas. Otherwise, I feel as young as I ever have, else I wouldn't be here.

[adam_warlock_2099]

I feel like I am responsible in my irresponsibility, which I kinda find to be what being an adult is. You don't have to change what you do and what you like, you just have to sacrifice more of your irresponsible time for your responsible time.

I haven't stopped playing games, reading comic books, drinking beer, going out and playing with action figures. I just do less of it, for more time to do the things that I HAVE to do.

[Lab-Rat]

I only know I'm an adult by the fact that the early twentysomethings are not available for me to date anymore and the stiffness in some areas. Otherwise, I feel as young as I ever have, else I wouldn't be here.

there's a joke here...but I just can't bring myself to make it. However I can bring myself to point it out.

[c. page]

frankly, i feel like i stopped growing up around my early 20s. i find it very hard to believe that i'm going to be 29 in a few weeks.

[Lab-Rat]

One of the things that honestly is a good reason on why I don't feel like an adult is I constantly forget how old I am. I seriously have to stop what I'm doing and think about it for a while to remember. Then I think about that for a while and feel older cause I'm obviously getting senile. It's a vicious cycle.

[MabusRex]

frankly, i feel like i stopped growing up around my early 20s. i find it very hard to believe that i'm going to be 29 in a few weeks.

This exactly. February 19th, to be precise.
Wow, I thought it was just me.

[James H]

Sometimes it seems like the "professional" me is just a character.

This I understand completely. I'm 27 and I have a 9-5 office job (like Office Space, just not funny) and once the day is done, I'm back to my t-shirt, torn jeans, and hoodie off to do silly art things. Kinda like a Clark kent/Superman thing. Some of my friends bust my balls about the "two Jameses (sp? Jamess? Jamei?)".


One of the things that honestly is a good reason on why I don't feel like an adult is I constantly forget how old I am.

This happens to me too. I keep thinking I'm older then I am. I guess it has to do with working with an older crowd.

[greg donovan]

It's really weird.

I'm going to be 36 in a few weeks. We own our own house, car, have a 14 month old baby, been married going on 16 years...

yet I don't feel like a grown up.

I mean I know I am, but it just doesn't feel like I am.

Am I the only one that feels this way, or are there others out there that keep waiting for something to happen or what not to go NOW you're an adult.

It's very weird.

soon to be 34 and i dont feel like a "grown up" either.

[Kedd]

Only when I get up out of bed in the morning and my body makes all kinds of popping noises, and when I look in the mirror.


This has been happening to me since I was 17, but it gets worse the older I get.


I feel old at times, but I don't feel grown up. And it's more than just the comics and video games. But I'm not really sure what it is.

[Mylazycat]

One of the things that honestly is a good reason on why I don't feel like an adult is I constantly forget how old I am. I seriously have to stop what I'm doing and think about it for a while to remember. Then I think about that for a while and feel older cause I'm obviously getting senile. It's a vicious cycle.

This is exactly how I feel. I mean, really. I'm goofing around with friends kids or playing games with them, having no problem making myself look or sound silly to amuse them and sometimes out of the blue it hits me how much older I now am than them now.

Some 21 year old at work is chatting me up for awhile, all laughing and into the conversation and I start to think about what it would be like to have coffee and a movie with her when I realize how much younger she is than me and that a date with her would never fly.

I never miss work. I don't goof off at work. I'm polite and well behaved in public places. Yet there are many times I suddenly remember my age and it kind of surprises me. It's an odd feeling.

I think it's a good thing. One of the best compliments I think I've ever received was being told by a female friend once that I should date younger woman because "You're a fun person, you're not bitter and cranky all the time like other guys your age." I remember when my uncle was my age, how cranky, constantly annoyed and angry he seemed most of the time and he was someone to be avoided. So, if being the way I am makes me fun and the alternative is being bitter and cranky, then I like being me and having my tastes and I'm not going to change it.

[Donal DeLay]

It's really weird.

I'm going to be 36 in a few weeks. We own our own house, car, have a 14 month old baby, been married going on 16 years...

yet I don't feel like a grown up.

I mean I know I am, but it just doesn't feel like I am.

Am I the only one that feels this way, or are there others out there that keep waiting for something to happen or what not to go NOW you're an adult.

It's very weird.

I feel the same way, but I don't want to be a "grown up"

Paying bills is enough adulthood for me.

Being an adult is sad. There's no fun. People are miserable. They chase money and bland careers in order to be happy and successful. I see the "grown ups" and think I don't ever want to be like them. They're stuffy, and walk around like they have a stick up their asses and seem like the most important thing in the world to them is politics, money and impressing the boss.

I want to be the 70yr old man going to MMA fights, reading comics, rolling in the dirt with dogs, and still making the transformers sound when I put on my pants while wearing a batman watch.

I'm 30yrs old, and act like I'm 15 still. I hope to Crom I'm still acting that way at 50.

[Mylazycat]

I want to be the 70yr old man going to MMA fights, reading comics, rolling in the dirt with dogs, and still making the transformers sound when I put on my pants while wearing a batman watch.

This would make a great character to center a film around.

[c. page]

One of the things that honestly is a good reason on why I don't feel like an adult is I constantly forget how old I am. I seriously have to stop what I'm doing and think about it for a while to remember. Then I think about that for a while and feel older cause I'm obviously getting senile. It's a vicious cycle.

there's this, as well. i'm also one of the lucky few that dresses casually for work, so jeans and a hooded sweatshirt is my typical attire most days.


This exactly. February 19th, to be precise.
Wow, I thought it was just me.

january 30th here. and it's crazy, isn't it? i'm lucky in that i apparently look younger than i actually am, despite the receding hairline.

[Albert]

Not at fucking all and it's actually starting to mess with me a bit.

I always thought there was this moment when you just realized that the stuff you liked as a kid just never interested you anymore (and thus began liking home improvement television, hogging the remote and never getting off the couch). A moment kind of like how one day girls were yucky and the next it's Schwing! I'm finding that's not the case.

So you're saying you still find girls yucky?

[noble]

Oh don't get me wrong Donal, I don't WANT to be a grown up.

I just feel weird that I don't feel like a grown up.

I probably never will at this rate :D

[Gunter]

january 30th here. and it's crazy, isn't it? i'm lucky in that i apparently look younger than i actually am, despite the receding hairline.

I turn 43 the day after that. Three grown daughters, three grandsons.

But then I just graduated college in August, and bought my first house in September.

[Boris the Blade]

I felt like one since I was about fourteen.

[Jen Grunwald]

I feel like an adult when I make my own coffee...for some reason... ;-)



:rogue:

[noble]

there's this, as well. i'm also one of the lucky few that dresses casually for work, so jeans and a hooded sweatshirt is my typical attire most days.



january 30th here. and it's crazy, isn't it? i'm lucky in that i apparently look younger than i actually am, despite the receding hairline.

Same here.

And Mike Oeming has the same birthday as well.

We were actually born on the exact same day/year.

[/(. . )/]

I do.

[Rosemary's Baby]

I feel like an adult when I make my own coffee...for some reason... ;-)



:rogue:

I had this thought the other day.

That said, I rarely feel like an adult. To be honest I don't think I ever really "feel" like an adult, I more comply with my perceived idea of what an adult is. And adults make their own coffee.

[c. page]

Same here.

And Mike Oeming has the same birthday as well.

We were actually born on the exact same day/year.

wow. apparently it was a good day to be born for creative types.

[AndrewG]

I'll be 36 in October. Married 11 years with 3 kids, a house, the cars finally paid off, etc and I still don't feel like an adult.

Sure paying the bills, dealing with taxes, worrying about the state of the world gets me feeling my age. I tend to want to watch the news now as opposed to being forced by my dad to watch. Responsibility wise, I feel like an adult in the way I conduct myself and teach my kids to behave but when I see how boring people my age tend to be I fear that adulthood can one day turn me into that.

It's just as easy to not feel like an adult, though.

A good part of it comes from the fact that I'm the only adult male in the neighborhood who goes out and plays football or baseball (or Nerf guns) with all the kids. As much fun as it is for them to play amongst themselves sometimes they like having a grown up there to have fun and be silly and maybe bring some organization to the thing. Shit, I've had kids come to see if I could play when the boys were away.

Mix in the fact that I like playing video games with them, reading comics and working on 'funnybooks' while lounging around in jeans and a Pac Man t-shirt and there doesn't seem to be much about me that screams adult.

If feeling like an adult means I can't have fun then I want no part of it.

[The Cheap-Arse Film Critic]

Sporadically.

[schizorabbit]

I'll be 36 in October. Married 11 years with 3 kids, a house, the cars finally paid off, etc and I still don't feel like an adult.

Sure paying the bills, dealing with taxes, worrying about the state of the world gets me feeling my age. I tend to want to watch the news now as opposed to being forced by my dad to watch. Responsibility wise, I feel like an adult in the way I conduct myself and teach my kids to behave but when I see how boring people my age tend to be I fear that adulthood can one day turn me into that.

It's just as easy to not feel like an adult, though.

A good part of it comes from the fact that I'm the only adult male in the neighborhood who goes out and plays football or baseball (or Nerf guns) with all the kids. As much fun as it is for them to play amongst themselves sometimes they like having a grown up there to have fun and be silly and maybe bring some organization to the thing. Shit, I've had kids come to see if I could play when the boys were away.

Mix in the fact that I like playing video games with them, reading comics and working on 'funnybooks' while lounging around in jeans and a Pac Man t-shirt and there doesn't seem to be much about me that screams adult.

If feeling like an adult means I can't have fun then I want no part of it.

I have the best time playing with kids. Last summer, my son's school had a get-together at a teacher's backyard, and I was playing monster zombie with 'em, imagining I was chasing them (ages 4 to 8 ) when, all of a sudden, a group of 'em started grabbing onto my legs and trying to pull me down. It was just one big screaming pile-up.

[DaGetHighKnight]

Im 33 and I still feel the same way I did when I was 10 walking into Toys R Us..I Have the marriage, the job, car,house, deflated portfolio,owned a buisness all that stuff and I feel like im still 16.
Lately my brain seems to be telling me I need to evolve into more of an adult. I wore a shirt and tie to my xmas dinner with the fam and an uncle told me "wow Frankie not till today did I ever consider you a grown up /adult" ( I lent this 46 year old dick $3500 for his over due mortgage last year and Im the child??)Either way It made me want to put on my baseball cap/hoodie and Nike's real bad.

I actually dont like people who are my age that are all grown up and playing house like our parents did, what a boring existence IMO. I go out of my way to be nothing like my parents and be my own person. Good topic Noble, I think about this all the time.

[AndrewG]

I have the best time playing with kids. Last summer, my son's school had a get-together at a teacher's backyard, and I was playing monster zombie with 'em, imagining I was chasing them (ages 4 to 8) when, all of a sudden, a group of 'em started grabbing onto my legs and trying to pull me down. It was just one big screaming pile-up.

That's the absolute best. I hate it when there is a get together with a group of kids (especially outside) and the adults keep screaming for them to quiet down and relax when they just want to have some fun. God forbid they interact with the kids a bit. And the young ones love any opportunity to gang up and beat down a grown up.

[leviathan]

I'm only 24 so I don't need to feel like an adult yet I guess...but lately I've been thinking that maybe I was missing something vital that was preventing me from growing up. Glad to see that's not the case!

However, I only really worry whenever I go to work. This guy who I was in school with until the second grade works with me and he actually looks like a grown-up. He'll wear the tie and the suit, etc...even though we have a pretty casual setting. And next to him, I feel like such a douche and so immature. Its very frustrating.

Of course, now I'm gonna worry about never growing up thanks to you old farts. :p

[AndrewG]

However, I only really worry whenever I go to work. This guy who I was in school with until the second grade works with me and he actually looks like a grown-up. He'll wear the tie and the suit, etc...even though we have a pretty casual setting. And next to him, I feel like such a douche and so immature. Its very frustrating.

Of course, now I'm gonna worry about never growing up thanks to you old farts. :p

My best friend...I've known this guy since we were 4 years old has morphed into his father. I remember there was a time when I was living in Florida and he was still in PA and we hadn't seen each other in a year or two (and that was the longest it had been). The first time I saw him after with the graying hair and the suit...it was like his features had changed overnight and it shocked the hell out of me.

[leviathan]

My best friend...I've known this guy since we were 4 years old has morphed into his father. I remember there was a time when I was living in Florida and he was still in PA and we hadn't seen each other in a year or two (and that was the longest it had been). The first time I saw him after with the graying hair and the suit...it was like his features had changed overnight and it shocked the hell out of me.

Yeah...I met this guy after something like 5-6 years and I was shocked by how together he seemed. I mean, I'm still trying to figure out what career I want and whether I want to continue studying and he's already thinking about marriage, a permanent job, and how he can support his parents in their old age (his father is only 60!!).

Admittedly, I have been engaged, and thus was thinking about marriage for a while there, but for me it was more of an experiment. While for him its life or death. Like I said, makes me feel so fucking immature. Have a pretty hard time talking to him now.

[lonesomefool]

Somewhere in the middle I suppose. I'm 22, but I hold a full time job, rent my own apartment with no roomie, pay all my own bills, etc.

So that makes me feel fairly old as does the fact I dont go out to the bars anymore and dont really do any popular things for young people anymore.

However, I still feel young cause I dont have the girlfriend/wife, the kids, etc.

[Jef UK]

I'm 33. I feel old, but I don't feel grown up.

Yes to this.

[shoelaceless]

I'm 19 and I feel like nothing close to an adult.

[PimpSlapStick!]

I come here not to feel like an adult

[Patch]

My little girl busted her chin last summer. I had to take her to the ER and she was really scared. Holding her hand as they stitched her up, I felt like an adult.

[greg donovan]

My little girl busted her chin last summer. I had to take her to the ER and she was really scared. Holding her hand as they stitched her up, I felt like an adult.

moments like that can really make you feel like a "grown up"

had to take my youngest in to Urgent Care the other day and felt the same way.

[PimpSlapStick!]

My little girl busted her chin last summer. I had to take her to the ER and she was really scared. Holding her hand as they stitched her up, I felt like an adult.


Man, that would scare me also

[Len Snark]

I'm glad someone posted this because I'm going to be 35 in May and I do not feel like a grown-up at all, even though I have two kids and understand escrow.

[PimpSlapStick!]

Heh^

[Patch]

moments like that can really make you feel like a "grown up"

had to take my youngest in to Urgent Care the other day and felt the same way.


Man, that would scare me also

Don't mean to make too big deal of it -- my kids are healthy, parents with really sick kids, that's adult.

[Donal DeLay]

Im 33

Jesus Christ, you look like you're fuckin 21.

Maybe I need to start smokin the weeds.

[c. page]

Jesus Christ, you look like you're fuckin 21.

Maybe I need to start smokin the weeds.

hell no. it takes you long enough to cook now...

[emeraldsundae]

I'm getting to feel that way. I got engaged in September and that kinda made me think that I'll have to really get my life in order and be a grown-up. Granted, both my fiancee and I have big toy and comic book collections, but to both of us it feels weird that we'll have all of that together.

[(akaRyanHoffman)]

I'm actually a few years older than my Dad was in otherwise the exact same position (house, kids, job, etc.) and I can't believe he felt as immature and clueless then as I do now. But maybe that's what everyone thinks and it turns out our parents were faking being grown ups just as much as we are.

I think this is the truth right here. The older I get the more I realize how full of shit people are, how even the oldest of the old have prominent traits of little kids.

To me "being a grown up" means being aware of your actions and the consequences and owning up to them.

Old and young try to buck 'em and play the blame game.

[Patch]

No. We're more immature :)

[Donal DeLay]

hell no. it takes you long enough to cook now...

:rofl:

[Kurt Russell Crowe]

I feel like an adult by proxy since a lot of my friends (20-25 range) are changing drastically into adults. Lots of friends that went into the army got married and had kids right out of high school. When I hear about what others are up to, and that so and so has been a nurse for 2/3 years or whatever, that shit usually blows my mind. Even some of my friends that are bums and dropped out of high school and became townies have fallen bassackwards into semi-permanent jobs, houses, marriages, and children. Also, my older sister dove right into a serious career so 100% of my family's conversations are about what they hate about their horrible jobs and I kind of just sit there.

[Dr. Omega]

The older I get the more I realize how full of shit people are, how even the oldest of the old have prominent traits of little kids.

My parents got a divorce when I was about 5. They acted like morons for years about it making snipey little comments to us kids, trying to use us against each other, spending all of our college funds. etc.

Hell, when my Grandfather was dying, my whole family acted like 4 year olds whining and bitching at each other arguing over my Grandpa's tools and house, etc. It split the family into about 5 factions all hating one another. Let me again stress, HE WASN'T DEAD YET. He lived for another 5 or 6 years..

The older people get, the more immature they get..