When are you a grown up?

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  • Top_Girl
    Top_Girl Posts: 1,211 Forumite
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    I am and I'm not. I'm 35.

    I parent (well), pay my bills, work, diet and clean.

    I also !!!! (spotted **** if the filters block that) about an awful lot, skid down supermarket aisles on trolleys, jump in puddles, rejoice when it snows, sing and dance around on a regular basis, watch football and wrestling as religiously as I did as a bairn and try and have fun every day.

    I hope I never grow out of the last lot. Life is too short for living on celery and spreadsheets.
  • Lunar_Eclipse
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    I definitely feel like a grown up and think it happened when I moved in with DH after uni, worked long hours and spent time on dull domestic duties. So early 20's, after education, leaving the family home and becoming financially independent.

    I would love to not feel like a grown up!
  • System
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    I'm an adult with a little child inside wanting to get out.:(
  • beakysian
    beakysian Posts: 29 Forumite
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    Guest101 wrote: »
    The phrase 'in my day' is uttered on an hourly basis...
    Sam_Fallow wrote: »
    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...'

    I'm only 31 and I've caught myself saying "you're too young to remember this, but..." :(
    splishsplash wrote: »
    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.

    I think I did too.

    I reckon it's when you realise your body can't keep up with what you think it should still be able to do.

    I propose we all agree not to grow up and join SailorSam at the circus. I'll be the elephant :rotfl:
  • Pyxis
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    Well, two days ago, the pilot of the plane I was on asked if anyone wanted to see the cockpit and sit in the pilot's seat, with the captain's hat on.

    Guess who shot up there?
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  • loveabargain13
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    I don't feel like a real adult, at 33! Too many holidays, too much fun, too happy. Just ended what could of been an amazing relationship as I don't feel I'm ready to just settle down, now I'm not sure I ever will. hehe but who cares as long as we are happy, healthy, alive & kicking especially in fashionable clothes!! :)
  • GenericUsername
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    When I was a kid I thought 40 was really old and that there would come a day when you would suddenly revert to being a grown-up. Get a job, cut your hair and get respectable-like.

    Now I'm 38 and I realise that I'm still a kid in the body of an adult, which is great because I can do all the adult things like drive, drink, stay up late, travel where I want, and anything else that takes my fancy. Still wear jeans, trainers and fitted t-shirts on a daily basis.

    My favourite thing is when my 20 year old son looks at me like I could never understand technology, or meme's, or the internet (bearing in mind I have my own online business), and thinks that his Mum & I are just old people.

    It makes me smile because I feel just as young as he is except I have means, and interesting stories. And a more childish sense of humour. When he rolls his eyes at my jokes, sometimes I wonder who the adult really is.

    Yep, never thought of older people as 'young' when I was a kid, but now I realise age really is a state of mind.
  • Bufger
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  • Sam_Fallow
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    When you are in a position to pass something on to the younger generation and know they will benefit from your experience, then you are a grown up.
    I don't like morning people. Or mornings. Or people.
  • Hermia
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    Well, two days ago, the pilot of the plane I was on asked if anyone wanted to see the cockpit and sit in the pilot's seat, with the captain's hat on.

    Guess who shot up there?

    I still find it quite thrilling when I get on the bus and the front seat on the top deck is free. It is like being on a rollercoaster when the bus goes through the hilly areas!
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