When are you a grown up?

Sam_Fallow

Guest101 wrote: »

The phrase 'in my day' is uttered on an hourly basis...

Also accompanied by 'I can't believe that was XX years ago!'


Or when you get a funny look for saying 'Of course, before the internet...'

Gillybean

Married with 2 kids and I still feel like someone's going to tap me on the shoulder at some point and say ' terribly sorry, there's been a huge mistake, of course you cannot look after these children!'

I run DBS checks as part of my job and it totally freaks me out when I come across applications from doctors, dentists, etc who were born in the 1990s!

splishsplash

I realized I was a grown up when I opened my back door on a lovely warm, sunny, breezy morning and my first thought was 'ooh what a great drying day!'.

I think I cried.

theoretica

I feel amazingly grown up when I allow someone who is wrong to have the last word.

bugslet

Gillybean wrote: »

I run DBS checks as part of my job and it totally freaks me out when I come across applications from doctors, dentists, etc who were born in the 1990s!

I've got two drivers that are younger than my mobile phone number....:eek:

Pyxis

On the rare occasion (these days!) when a shop assistant or similar calls me Madam!
Then I think, "ooooh! I must be grown up!"



Or, on the equally rare occasion (!) when someone says to me " Could I ask your advice, please?"
Then I feel very wise, like a tribal elder!

Delia_Cardei

The top of the 3 things that I thought I'm a grown up.
Having a mortgage
Mum and dad no longer make your financial decisions
Paying into a pension

Delia_Cardei

The top of the 3 things that I thought I'm a grown up.
Having a mortgage
Mum and dad no longer make your financial decisions
Paying into a pension

Pyxis

Oh yes, the other thing that made me feel that maybe I was a grown-up...........

Going to Italy for the first time in years and years. On the previous occasion, I had been addressed as Signorina. On the next occasion, I was addressed as Signora! :eek:

Similarly, on the previous occasion, men were saying "complimenti alla mamma" to my mother, ie. compliments to the mother on having a lovely daughter. On the next occasion, they were saying it to ME, about my daughter. I didn't know whether to be pleased or sad! (A mixture of both, actually!)

NBLondon

Gillybean wrote: »

I run DBS checks as part of my job and it totally freaks me out when I come across applications from doctors, dentists, etc who were born in the 1990s!

I did a double-take last week seeing a job application with DoB ending in 00


My wife says she realised she was a grown=up when she bought her own stepladder and extension lead instead of nipping round to borrow her dad's. So I'm not a grown-up 'cause I use hers!