Posted on 09/29/2006 10:58:37 AM PDT by tx_eggman
25 Signs That, Sadly, You've Grown up
1. Your house plants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.
2. Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song on 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 damn kids next door won't turn down the stereo.
11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.
12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
13. Your car insurance goes down and your 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 PM.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM 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. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
24. You 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 and can't find one to save Your sorry old ass.
#26 You can remember a time if you saw a woman in the street wearing a long black roba and a head scarf, you knew she was a Roman Catholic nun.
Sounds too much like my life! LOL!
Well, I guess I'm not completely grown up yet....:-)
Yeah, that $4.00 bottle of wine still qualifies as pretty good stuff.
*whew* I'm not as old as I thought. Yippee!
Isn't this a sign you haven't grown up? If this is accurate, I grew up really young.
Having consumed my lifetime quota of alcohol at a very early age, I quit drinking a few years back...perhaps that's what's kept me young in so many other areas!
"25. You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save Your sorry old ass."
Ouch! ;)
Depends on whether or not both twins are there at the same time...
#27: You're watching the Golden Girls and all of 'em look HOT!
Your Honor, I plead the Fifth.
Thank you, Mamere Evangeline.... you had a great, big loving lap for this 5 yr. old boy.
12. You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
A few months ago I got off of my plane flight home around midnight and figured I'd treat myself to a beer before going to bed. I walked in the convienience store and had to ask them when they quit selling alcohol. (I've been in this county for 10 years.)
I know it's after two a.m., because I occasionally pick up dinner there on my way home from work.
The first time I did this was an epiphany!
4. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.
6. You watch the Weather Channel.
7. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook up and break up.
17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
All of these apply. The ones that really got me was the elevator and the Weather Channel ones.
Kinda reminds me of last week when I was at the bar watching a late game. I was putting money in the juke and for an extra buck you could move your song to the front of the list, so I moved every song I played forward (Heart,John Cougar, Huey Lewis LOL!). A kid in his 20's finally came up to me at the urging of his girlfriends and asked me to stop pushing his songs back. He told me he had some CCR coming up that he wanted to hear. I responded "Creedence? Great they are one of my favorites. If I knew they were on the machine I would have played them!"
"No,"he replied, "Cross Canadian Ragweed!"
My son has had some wild parties at his house, that caused his next door neighbor, on occasion, to call the police...he and his old brother could not stand the music...then they moved...fortunately for my son, a much younger couple bought the house...my son figured that the easiest way to keep them happy, during those parties, was to invite them to the parties...and they always have accepted..
A smart move, it benefited everyone involved...
LOL! That last one was a doozy. Oops. Now I've really given myself away.
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