Posted on 10/24/2013 12:06:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
My definition of an adult is someone who has paid all their own bills for one year.
check the nightstand ... under the candy wrappers ... next to the andro-gel ... by the aspirin ... probably covered by the clicker.
What is wrong with cold roast beef sandwiches?
Especially if you cooked the roast beef!
Worse .. (or better?)
I boil water and make the broth, and drink the broth while I munch down on the dry noodles.
Don't knock it ... try it.
Where’d I put those d@mn glasses?
FWIW, I know a guy who takes a spoon covered in Marshmallow Fluff, and dips it into popcorn for a mock-popcorn-ball experience.
I've always owned toolboxes. I thought being a "proper grownup" was when they stopped being furniture.
1. Umm...I’m the Network Administrator for a decent sized school District. So, yeah... I wait in eager anticipation for Summer break so I can have some peace and quiet to go fix all the things they’ve broken over the past school year.
A lot of the rest of that crap is so metro-sexual it could only have been written in either New York or the UK. Change a light bulb? Clean your room? Weep for the species...
You’re still on your parents’ health insurance.
I could feel my arteries harden just reading that.
I agree completely!!
Good one....
Big rule in my house is that you aren’t a grown up, unless you pay ALL your own bills and expesnses. Also, grown up status, and all the inherent perks like not having to follow my rules ALL THE TIME, is revoked if you come back to live in my basement.
Sounds good ... I’ll haf’ta’ give it a try.
You know you are getting old when you have to shave your ears.
I eat it for dinner on occasion.
I just braid.
“You know you’re old when your family talks about you in front of you.” - Rodney Dangerfield
For me these are signs I am too old. I don’t understand half of these points.
Sure. Like this one:
You’re still too scared to leave voicemails
If you came of age in the last century, you may still be too scared of that.
Is voice mail just a pretentious way of leaving a message?
I'm not sure voicemail is really hear to stay, though. Younger people just send texts.
I don’t understand half of these points.
It's British.
Some of it is just strange:
Watching Question Time makes you feel like some kind of wizened old man…
…as does listening to Radio 4…
I guess Radio 4 is like NPR. I don't get the "wizened old man" thing, though.
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