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25 ways to tell you're grown up (Original Post)
Swede
Jun 2012
OP
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)1. So true!
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)2. You ask "How are the kids?" instead of "Are you holding?"
benld74
(9,909 posts)3. 1,3,4,5,6,13,15,17,20,22,23,25,26 OUCH !
Arkansas Granny
(31,523 posts)4. #26. So true, so true.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)5. Aha! 26 doesn't apply to me . . .
oh . . . awww.
And drinking before going to the bar just makes sound fiscal sense in this turbulent economy!
raccoon
(31,112 posts)6. Ain't it the truth? Thanks for posting. nt
Chan790
(20,176 posts)7. 3 and 11 are the only ones that apply to me.
3 only applies because I'm in recovery. I wish 11 didn't apply to me.
Iggo
(47,563 posts)8. Totally true...
...except sex is NEVER out of the question.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)9. Grown up is making your own dentist appointment
and keeping it.
Kali
(55,019 posts)10. I have always been cheap
was doing # 24 even "back in the day"
turtlerescue1
(1,013 posts)11. #26 sums it up...thanks, maybe.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,678 posts)12. Oh hell yeah.
I *am* grown up.
Most of the time, anyway...
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)13. All true. All true.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)14. The only one that applies to me is #8
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)15. Some of these are trite
and some of them hit way too close to home.