Once you were dreaming of becoming an astronaut, visiting the furthest places, climbing the highest mountains, finding the biggest love, and then it was all gone one day.
Adulthood happened. It knocked on the door, handed you responsibilities you were not ready for and said that everything’s on your shoulders now. So now, most of my fellow dear millennials are juggling between things like the pandemic that made the world feel like an apocalyptic movie you didn’t sign up for, student loans, unaffordable rent, crazy expensive mochas your body nevertheless needs no-questions-asked, barely fine Tinder dates, sleepless Netflix binges, stressful jobs or the even more stressful absence of one, and lots other things nobody prepared us for.
So, dear adults, even though we can’t just get back to our childhood which equals devouring Harry Potter books and carelessly sleeping under the stairs, we can laugh at the absurdity we’re in right now. Scroll down through the best tweets that sum up adult life below and prepare to laugh and cry, and then laugh. Who cares, they already think of millennials as not very stable ones.
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But "chilling" is an important part of life. We're not meant for constant work - look at other hunter/carnevore animals. Took me a long time to understand this, but I am now chilling without feeling guilty - even though there's a million things I "should have done".
Yes!! Some of the things that make us "should" all over ourselves is crap made up by this weird system we live in. I do what I can, within my means and in the best interest of my family. We bond through "chilling" together. The whole fam can put their worries down for a second and it's ok.
Load More Replies...Take it from a 70-year-old: there's a point past adulting (senioring?) when so much of that s**t doesn't matter anymore. The best part of retiring isn't that you don't need to work anymore, it's that you reach a point when far less matters to you — or needs to matter. Until health becomes the Big Thing.
I'm retired but not senioring yet (I love that term, btw) there's definitely a difference. I have half the weight off my shoulders (worked/ saved enough to retire young) but still have the technicalities of traditional adulting (teenager in high school, one just moved out, caring for my elderly father and ill hubby). You've earned those "it doesn't matter" stripes 😉 I'm looking forward to senioring someday!!
Load More Replies...In an attempt to solve this problem, I've worked on getting rid of as many unnecessary and boring tasks as I reasonably could. For example I abolished ironing, and that was a great day for freedom in the tiny republic of my home.
“...tiny republic of my home.” is absolutely fantastic!
Load More Replies...My general feeling about this, and I'm in my 40s now, is that sooner or later I'll die and not need to do some of it, thereby winning at life.
🤣 you've made it "over the hill". I'm in my 40s too and am finally starting to truly understand this phrase.
Load More Replies...Me this fine morning in sunny and yet cold cold bangalore, make sure my son is attending his online class, cook breakfast, feed my younger one, ensure that husband makes the elder one eats as soon as class is over and go dozing off for three hours. I have a huge pile of laundry to take care of, weekend cleaning dusting etc and cooking. Couldn't bring myself to it 🤣 i told the fam I'm chilling let me be, I'll get up in time for cooking lunch, the fruits, snacks salad etc are where they are always so help yourselves. Was a good three hours ❤️
How did so many people grow up with this mindset? Did they not have to put in effort in anything before they became an adult?
There is a big difference between "never putting effort in anything" and running a deadly race against yourself each and every day, like some people (feel they have to) do...
Load More Replies...Yes! I don't think people realize how much maintaining our existence really is. Like outside of work, we all have to maintain ourselves or constantly be doing something to just exist. So in all reality we are always being productive even when we are not getting paid for it. For example, getting up showering, brushing teeth, hair, and any other hygiene thing, takes effort. Maintaining our homes, cars, kids, self, and just existing is work. No one can get out of doing these things in order to live. It's hard enough maintaining ourselves, let alone working 60 to 80 hours a week. We really can't be lazy when you think about it. Because their is always something or someone that has to be maintained. Which is why I find it sad that people think folks who don't earn money by working are somehow not productive or just being lazy. Not at all the case. Even the most laziest of people still have to maintain themselves and put in effort to just exist day to day. It really makes you see how hard existing is and how much pressure is put on all of us to work. Not to mention having to work for food just to eat and stay alive. Like you're telling me if I don't make enough money I'll be denied a thing I literally need to stay alive? That's absolutely insane and wrong when you think about it. Starving people for no reason when there is plenty of food to go around. Placing a condition on human beings being able to eat is so messed up. Just saying.
You don't have to put it away if you just get dressed out of the laundry pile.
Exactly what I am doing. I just stopped putting away a year ago or two. So much easier :)
Load More Replies...On a behind- the- scenes tour of the laundry on a cruise ship, they had a main that washes, dries and FOLDS the sheets! It was bigger than my kitchen and I still want one
Load More Replies...I actually forget that I started washing clothes and when I remember it's too late and they smell like mildew. So I have to wash them again
I do have a rack of laundy that has been dry for the last 36 hours located two meters behind me. I should go put them away in their proper places another two meters farther. Thank you for the reminder, BP.
Just thinking of getting ready to go to a party exhausting!
Load More Replies...Age 62: stomp out of the house to complain about the party next door
🤣🤣🤣 all of us gen xers: lol I'm not getting involved in that mess!! Wanna go play fetch with the dogs?
Load More Replies...Navigating through adulthood is the job of a lifetime. I have been an adult for more than a decade, and I am still learning to be one. I suspect I am not the only one. So I spoke with Francis Merson, the clinical psychologist awarded the Australian Psychology Society Prize in 2015, who was happy to share some very interesting and useful insights about it.
“People can often get stuck in patterns of behavior during childhood which persist into adulthood and prevent them developing true autonomy,” Francis said and added that there are many ways in which this can happen. “People who have been traumatized can internalize a victim identity, which makes it scary for them to act independently as adults. People who are emotionally neglected can also revert to child-like modes, where they rely excessively on partners and friends to help them deal with the world and their own emotions.”
It can also happen to people who are overindulged since they “might grow up with the expectation that others should sort out their lives for them,” Francis added.
My wife: "What shall we have tonight?" Me: "I don't know"......repeat until we decide to eat the pizza we have in the freezer
Can someone invent a nutrition pill already? I'm tired of feeding myself multiple meals every single day.
Especially because you always buy the same kind of food, which you're kind of fed of now, but when you're at the grocery store you can't think of anything different you could have to change a bit. So you open the fridge, go "meh" and end up always having the same old menu for the week.
I've come to realize having routine meals is one of the most daunting, unnecessary things we do with our days. I understand if you're hungry and you want your food on your break at work. But when we're at home we tend to schedule our meals and keep ourselves from eating until those times. Why? Eating should be the most liberating, free thing we have to do to survive that is in our control. Eat when your hungry, eat what you want and how much you want. It doesn't have to be this formal event every day. If someone wants to eat something else than what you're having, let them make what they want.
Absolutely! If I want to have breakfast cereal for dinner and cold pizza for breakfast, I can. And frequently do!
Load More Replies...I keep a list of dinners by category: pork, vegetarian, chicken. I plan our dinners a week at a time (before I shop). If nothing seems interesting to me, I give the list to my hubby and son. They always choose pasta and fish sticks but it gets them in on the planning.
Yes I wish we were better at planning. The weeks where we figure out 3 dinners in advance I feel like a real adult. Then Thursday.
Have breakfast for dinner. Those nights were always the best when I was a kid!
Load More Replies...I get mad when there are multiple locations for the same thing. Looking for salsa? Check the chips aisle, the condiments aisle, the Mexican food shelf in the International aisle, and then the sauces and spreads section in the produce corner.
they rearranged the store i work at (they being a third party) so not only are the customers mad at us, WE dont even know where anything is!
I just lose my patience and don't end up spending as much money. Leave it alone and I'll zip round like lightening and buy everything I need and more. Piss me off by rearranging and I will get the basics and leave asap!
lol, this should be higher. Last time they re-arranged my store I heard someone yell from the next aisle, "Where the hell is the water?" in a really frustrated tone. I chuckled.
Cherry on that would be the announcement coming on right after "Remember! We're all in this together."
Load More Replies...It's annoying. Like now I have to tilt my head 90° upwards to see where the duck everything is
You have a route and a game plan and then this. And you're there for 2 hours.
It is a nightmare for the visually impaired. Leave my candy aisle alone!
I definitely had a quarter of camembert there last time I looked
Load More Replies...Why the hell is it Friday when yesterday was Tuesday, and why are Cadbury's Creme Eggs so much smaller than they used to be?
remember, part of the dust, are your own cells that had die and fallen off...basically you are falling apart and had to be remove
It would be so much handier if we just shed our skin once or twice a year, like reptiles.
Load More Replies...The kids did it! Not me when i came running back from the car because i forgot my lunch.... No, definitely the kids... 🙄
Load More Replies...I put a little trash out maybe once per month. I don’t throw food waste in trash. It either gets composted or fed to the disposal. I recycle all metal and plastic (which might never get recycled because American recycling is a goddamned joke, but I’m doing my goddamned part!), including plastic film (which is bagged separately and might never find a recycler, because, again, America is goddamned stupid).
But you are at least doing something about it. I have a recycling corner in the garage ... plastic, paper, tins, etc. I need to sort it out because I became lazy and just chucked my stuff in that general direction. Maaaan.
Load More Replies...Never dust - remember ashes to ashes dust to dust - it could be a friend!
Don't ever ask where the dust comes from. You do not want to know
Even though it might be easy to judge people who just can’t seem to adult properly, Francis argues that it’s important to be compassionate and remember that these people didn’t choose the early experiences that underpin their difficulties today.
More importantly, Francis argues that there’s no such thing as the perfect adult—“someone who is unfailingly responsible, rational and emotionally balanced. We all have moments when we act like kids: we get mad over trivial stuff; we panic needlessly; we sulk when we’re criticized.” Having said that, the clinical psychologist warned that “if these behaviors are the rule, rather than the exception, then it’s possible there are some roadblocks on the way to adulthood.”
My body is still tired as hell, but this frickin brain just wont shut up
I'm too tired to be awake and too awake to be asleep. It's an awful world.
I’m tired in the morning amd at school but as soon as we get home suddenly I’m wide awake
I told my sister I was thinking about taking a nap at 4 pm... and she told me I'd never get to sleep at night if I did...and we laughed and laughed.
I'm a night person 12 1 am not unusual ,so at 7 am I get up or I can sleep in and miss breakfast.
It's mostly bills now... When I was younger I used to have penpals from around the world!
Bills are just penpal letters, they keep coming no matter what you reply ;o)
Load More Replies...When I reached 60 I began to be inundated with catalogues tempting me with incontinence aids and velcro fastening sandals
I remember getting the Publisher's Clearing House bs prize letter and calling my mom at work and excitedly saying, "We may have already won 1 million dollars!" Then I ordered 10 cassettes for 1 cent thinking that was a great deal. Got in trouble when they sent a bill later on.
Yep. My oldest has Autism, & he's the sweetest most gentle artistically talented young man you will ever meet, and with that comes A LOT of paperwork, snail mail & emails that will never end ever. On the other hand; if we lived in a poor country, I wouldn't receive any paperwork, snail mail or emails. Bottom line: Please send anything and everything that can help my super sweet boy! ❤💙💛
So sick and tired of junk mail. Why do they send it? It just gets thrown out without being opened. Am I right folks?
And it must Cost them a fortune to send it so often.
Load More Replies...I don't have a favorite one, I have a taboo one. I never use the top left burner and I can't even figure out why.
I don't go near the top left. I might as well get the gas disconnected from it.
Load More Replies...I'm a back right burner gal. Rarely cook on the front burners because (a) I had kids and it became a habit, and (b) now I have a granddaughter who lives with me.
Finally a person with some sense - back right, it is! Front right would be quicker hot, however, it is smaller than the one in the back and it is too close to curious paws. The ones on the left? I think I have used back left exactly one single time so far, wenn I for some strange reason really had to heat three pots at the same time...
Load More Replies...And when you use one of the other burners, there's that moment just before turning it on when you wonder if it still works.
Bottom left for me, my brother, my son, my nephew. Bottom right for mom. We talk about it in my house because we're all incredibly boring people, I guess 😂😂😂
Yes! Finally someone else from the top team! Though for me it's the right one. At least the pots and pans are out of the way. Not that I've given it much thought. Nope. I do have a life.
Load More Replies...“And, of course, no one turns 18 and suddenly finds themselves fully rational, responsible and ready to smash all their life goals. The knowledge and skills involved in adulthood are accrued across the lifespan, gradually allowing you to become a more effective actor in the world, able to pursue your own interests while balancing them against the interests of others,” Francis said and added that essentially, we are all works in progress: becoming an adult is a lifelong pursuit. Meanwhile, “Immaturity happens when people are not progressing, when they are stuck in behaviors that aren’t helpful for them at their stage of life.”
One of my friends put a label on their vegetable drawer that says "Vegetable Hospice" 😂
Load More Replies...Get those produce saver containers by rubbermaid. They make fruits and vegetables last 3x longer. It's a very impressive product.
YES, I second this! Was going to comment that but then saw you already had :)
Load More Replies...I know this is a joke! And yes, it's funny! And I'm still going to take the opportunity to say that the literal NUMBER ONE WAY we can all help at home to slow climate change, is to throw away less food. So - get a compost heap! Plan meals for a week before you shop! Freeze things that can be frozen if you're not getting to them fast enough! Throwing away less food is within ALL our reach :)
I buy bananas in color stages on the same day but they ripen at the same time. It I buy them at different times I end up with alcohol bananas and green bananas. There is no happy medium. Fred said it best.
Load More Replies...I actually blame my husband. He has plans for us. He needs me to do stuff etc poor guy
Load More Replies...I skip the middle man and go straight to 'no'. If pressed, my follow up is "don't want to"
Same. I used to not really CRAVE sweets until I became diabetic
Load More Replies...I've finally reached the age where if I want pie for supper, I'm eating pie for supper.
AMEN. I think I need one of those automatic timer things you can get for your pets... I can see me sitting at the table, knife and fork at the ready, waiting for the bell to ding and the little door to open so I can eat my dinner.
There are many aspects of the transition into adulthood. Francis elaborated: “it means learning to act rationally, rather than just react emotionally. Adults also seek relationships of equality and reciprocity, rather than just someone to look after them. Adults are in touch with their values, and are proactive in reaching their goals. And adults are realistic, particularly about who they are. This requires gaining insight into one’s own motivations, behavior, emotional triggers, strengths and weaknesses.”
I think that was the reason why I had such a huge "age anxiety" when I would turned 25, cuz people that age were adults! And I didn't feel that I was, like at all!
Don't worry. I'm twice your age and I'm still immature.
Load More Replies...Let's drop the whole demeaning people because of their age. We are all born at different times and the older person that you are mocking, you'll be that age one day. Will you want younger people to mock you? I didn't think so.
YES, thank you! It's weird to be nearly 60, still feel like I'm 30, but have young people react to me like I'm old.
Load More Replies...When I was younger I learned to appreciate the wisdom of some of my elders, not many…just some. I loved that they had the courage to change the status quo and the system without victimizing anyone (unlike today). For the most part they realized people acted the way they did based on limited or just bad information, those wanting change did not need to demoralize their elders to embrace new things. Their parents were pissed off, disowning kids right and left, some parents came around, some never did, but the changes were made snd embraced none the less. So much changed between the 40-50’s and the 60-70’s which so many benefit from today. But kids now are stuck on OK BOOMER thinking they have their s**t together.
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Load More Replies...When one is 18 one does not have a stable mind about age - we forgive you!
I didn't know that. But then again I am someone who pretends to be a vampire because it's fun, so maybe that mentality leaked XD.
Load More Replies...or the teachers you thought were 102 and then you look at your grade two picture and you realize they were 23.
Now that I'm a little old lady I feel very bad about the little old lady remarks I used to make.
Personally, I love making great healthy food for my kid. It doubles the enjoyment.
Load More Replies...Mine is that we have food at the house, but I just don't want to eat it. :0p
My own daughter tells me this whenever I'm salivating at the bakery section
My inner child throws a tantrum when I don't go down the biscuit and sweets aisles
Sure, there's food at home, but is there a chef, wait staff, and a dishwasher? That's why I eat out.
But I don't want the food at home because that means I have to cook, do dishes and clean up !
Those were the days....I could fall off the trampoline and land on my face but be totally fine but now I pull a shoulder muscle just from opening the shower door wrong.
And every little injury takes at least a week to heal
Load More Replies...My knees don't even work. One of these days I'm going to take a header down my stairs. I have to hang on to the rail like a little kid just in case one of them collapses.
Load More Replies...I can’t sit on the floor for 10 minutes without being in excruciating pain but when I was a kid I basically was always on the floor. I ate on the floor (with a tray table, not literally eating off the floor).
What about kneeling? Used do it at school for assembly, no problem. Now, the pain!!
Load More Replies...what's with all the bodily pain? in your 30s!! I didn't get that until I hit 40...ok 38, still
i just turned 26 and my back and knees are way more painful than they should be :))
Load More Replies...I fell out of a tree once. Got back up and climbed it some more. Now my back hurts if I sleep wrong.
In my early twenties a tree I was climbing fell over (roots had rotted) and pinned me under it. I managed to lift it up high enough with my legs to get free and all I had was a few scrapes. This past weekend I did half an hour of light gardening and I've been so sore I actually took a sick day to recover.
Load More Replies...I had to see a chiropractor twice a week for six weeks because of a sneeze.
Load More Replies...Ironically, I had rhumatoid arthritis as a kid, but with treatment I don't have it as an adult, so my back and joints don't hurt anymore!
"If you are over 50 and don't feel any pain when get up at morning, you are dead."
Francis also noted that “it’s important to emphasize that the idea of independence in adulthood does not mean you don’t rely on others.” He explained that we are social animals, and we need each other to survive and flourish. “The independence of adulthood is more like the independence of a nation, which interacts with other nations on an equal footing, makes independent decisions and is responsible for its internal affairs.”
For those who think that adulthood is a lot of work, Francis says that it’s worth it. “What you get in return is the power to flourish on your own terms. By acting as a child in an adult world, it’s much harder to build a life you can be proud of,” the clinical psychologist concluded.
Scammers or wrong numbers. A lot of the numbers I google don’t have a result on any of those scam call websites so I guess are just misdials? But it happens so often, it’s weird.
Load More Replies...I used to hand the phone to my toddler and say bob the builder is on the phone for you.... that kiddo talked over the top of every salesman for as long as it took.....
We do that. We don't recognize your number and Xfinity caller ID isn't helping? You're talking to the answering machine.
the car warranty ppl are always calling my cell, in 2019 a dude called, when he finally shut the duck up, I asked why I needed to buy one from him when my new 🚙 literally had 300 miles on it he told me yea you don’t need this 😆 then hung up on me
lol 1 time I was bored. when 1 of those car warranty guys called. I strung the dude along for like 20 mins. then when he thought he had me. n said sorry I don't have a licence or car, to need a warranty on. (im 29, but can't drive due to disability)
Load More Replies...One day I picked up because I thought it was my doctor's office. It was one number off, and the guy started his spiel. I was not in a very good mood and let the foul language fly. It felt soooooo good.
There've been a couple of times DH found a telemarketer useful to blow off steam if they called during a, shall we say, "tense domestic conversation".
Load More Replies...Life hack; set a different ringtone to each of your contacts. Then you'll be able to tell who's calling. And if it's the default ringtone, that means it's a scammer. (unless it's your work phone, maybe don't try this on that)
Take your pillow when you visit friends. They will not be insulted. They will understand
I do that when I travel. I took my pillow with me to the Dominican Republic.
Load More Replies...What's worse is when you realize your bedding is getting old as well as you do. I was very happy with the expensive brand new mattress I bought myself with my first paycheck, until I had to admit it's been 15 years and it's pretty terrible now.
Get a new one! I just did, literally this week, and it makes a world of difference! I have a terrible back, but the pain is much less and I am sleeping sounder. I wish I had done it years ago - may mattress was probably as old as yours. Plus, all the nasty mites & skin cells, ugh!
Load More Replies...And yes, young grammarians, they really did mean that you will feel like you were in a motorcycle accident of three days duration
There used to be times I slept in the floor of my friends room with my jacket as a cover, and be perfectly fine the next day. 20 years later are now the wrongly angled pillow is a problem. Tf
You know you've reached "that age" when you wake up with more pulls/strains than you had the night before.
I'm like this x100, which is why I got an adjustable bed. Those things are a game changer.
Years ago during a trip home to visit family, I ended up counting down the days till I could leave. Not because they were driving me crazy (though they were), but because I hated the pillows in the guest room.
Being drunk and wired at the same time is not as fun as it sounds.
Load More Replies...Why is irish coffee the only option, why cant we invent whiskey latte or bourbon mocha??
Let me introduce you to carajillo, coffee and cognac. Super traditional in Spain.
Load More Replies...It's always tea time. It's just extra when it's also coffee or alcohol time.
Load More Replies...34 - still not married, no kids and no house 😂 but I love it 🥰 so much free time to explore me and my hobbies
Me at 34: if I can't order from an app for whatever reason I'll eat a bag of chips.
There was this one app for a restaurant that had a button you pressed to join the "call-ahead seating" list to minimize your wait. When you pressed it, it would actually call the nearest location so you could talk to the host staff directly and I cannot express the full magnitude of how much I do not want that functionality.
before I married my grocery shopping was 30 TV dinners, a couple 5ths of jack daniels and coke 😁 oh happy times i miss u 🥺
ya'll know im gonna hit up that lego section in walmart ^.^
My husband 100%, he also buys action figures. I call them his dolls to annoy him. ;)
Load More Replies......And then never using it because who has the time and energy for that as an adult?
Three shades of metallic markets, even then I had to excuse it by saying they were for writing on Christmas cards
When I'm an adult I will buy all of the glittery gel pens and craft supplies :D
I spent so much at Michael's Craft Store last year.
Load More Replies...A few years back I saw one of those toys in a Pound shop where you have a bunch of little fish twirling around, opening and closing their mouth and you have to get them with a small fishing rod that has a magnet on its end. I always wanted one but mom deemed it silly. It was of course, and at the time fairly expensive. I also had three tons of toys. But it stayed with me that I missed out on this so when I saw it I bought it. Played with it for like two minutes and then I was done. VERY happy two minutes, totally worth a Pound! Later I dropped it off in a charity shop, hope it found a kid that won't have to wait 30 years for those two minutes!
Ooh, colored pens, pencils, and markers are so seductive. And I can't draw.
My mom still thinks she can control where I travel. Apparently I'm not allowed to go to Mexico. I would have to go in stealth mode but I need an emergency contact who doesn't know my mom and that is absolutely no one.
I used to have roommates who would tell my mother I was "at a meeting" or "in the shower" and Then call me wherever I was traveling. I'd call her from there. But once I didn't get the message until I got home. When I called she said "You were at the Marti Gras weren't you?" Guilty as charged.
Load More Replies...One thing I do as an adult is buying the Panini-Album every world cup and EURO tournament with two boxes of stickers, put all the stickers in and never look at it again, simply because I always wanted to do that as a kid.
I kind of lie there with one eye open - very dangerous if you’ve already turned off your alarm
That's why I have alarm's on my phone from 5AM to 8:30AM in 15 minutes intervals.
Load More Replies...Amazing how quickly 1 min turns into 10 after your alarm goes off and you don't get up right away
Those minutes trying to convince oneself that, yes, you HAVE to wake up must be included on your calculations when setting the alarm.
And thinking how long, and how much effort will take you to get back to bed again.
Gettin up is like being drunk, you must have one foot on the floor at all times, supposed to stop the room from spinning!
I have three autistic kids and one autistic grandchild all under one roof . I say it at least 1,000 times a day
The constant expletive-filled muttering to myself at home in private changed when Covid hit. Now I do it in the supermarket behind my mask. I talk to people and they don't know it. I tell them what they should and shouldn't buy - to escape an aisle while they still can: 'Keep walking. Don't stop near the giant tubs of ice cream. They're trying to f__king kill you...'
I do it… a lot more then 96 times a day… it’s like 96 times every 8 minutes
Haha, "no where near over 30." It comes faster than you think!
Load More Replies...Me too. I actually squealed when I turned on to the cleaning aisle the other day. Oh if 18 year old me could see me now!
Load More Replies...This no longer works for me, I've moved on to the hard stuff - Brillo pads
I'm always very gratified to find cellulose sponges in green or purple -- I don't want to wreck these beautiful objects by using them. Also, reading this thread is making me happy that people derive pleasure from such small, daily things. Or we need to get a life ...
Load More Replies...Years ago my favourite ones were restocked at the store I bought them at. That actually caused an identity crisis that day when I realized the highlight of my day was finding dish sponges.
Oh, it could be worse... One of my happiest moments of last year was finding the shop had got in New stock of the recycling bin I wanted in a particular colour. How sad is that!!
Load More Replies...Actually I just feel guilty every time I get a new sponge for contributing to the plastic problem (sadly I haven't yet found an alternative that works for me).
Cellulose sponges are ok envitron!emtally, and they look like bread!
Load More Replies...If you're a musician, that's typically the best available career move, yes.
Same here when I think about retiring. My pension plan is being dead.
Youd think that but no, cause now youve got funeral costs, and im sure the mortician' would bill you after you depart
I love my mid afternoon naps. As a kid I found them boring, but as an adult I like to lay down for a half hour or so and snooze.
And as a bonus the cat comes to lie with you. Best naps ever!
Load More Replies...My mom used to sleep on the weekends a lot and then go out on a Saturday, then sleep much of the Sunday away. Felt a bit alone. I don't go out much but I feel so drained sometimes I have to sleep but then I feel guilty not spending time with mine.
With a heat pad...for 12 hours or more (heat pad turn of after one hour for safety)
♪♫ We come from the land of the ice and snow From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow ♪♫
it is telling you get off the road because of bad traffic, snow,and accidents!
I feel that I would do very well in a world where they don't expect you to be conscious all day. Mandated afternoon siesta, anyone?
I’m nearly 50 and I’m pumped if I wake up in the morning and at least one joint doesn’t ache!
I believe this is a direct correlation to the fact that we work during the day and don't at night.
8am to 5pm, barely able to function. 6pm to 9pm, cannot keep eyes open. 10pm to 1am: ready to play a set of tennis or compose a song, practice my flight sim chops or maybe catch a simrace online. 3am, listening to lecture on Medieval Philosophy to try to get to sleep. Rinse and repeat.
It’s not just me then. I can’t sleep at night but I fall asleep in front of the tv and wake up a couple of episodes into a box set thinking who the heck is that? What are they doing? Where am I?
hahaha just wait until you cannot throw away gift bags
Load More Replies...I would never buy a box bed because I need my mattress to be separated from the bed proper. After all, the space between both is where all the nice gift wrapping paper lives!
Try re-using them instead of getting new ones all the time. It's an easy habit to make.
For me, the challenge is remembering to convey them back out to the car to be used. :)
Load More Replies...I actually miss the availability of plastic bags for this reason. Stores don't use them in NY State anymore.
Load More Replies...See the clever thing to do with the shopping bag bag, is to put it at the feet of the front passenger seat. That way when you go get groceries you take them in with you, and the f*****s at the till ("cash register") don't ring up another bag while laughing maniacally at the thought of dying turtles.
You actually subscribed? I always thought it just drops on your head like a brick
Nah, childhood is a free trial, teenagedom is when you begin to realize your trial's at an end and your frantically try to cancel it before you get trapped, and adulthood's where you're forced to pay for the subscription you didn't ask for or you'll get arrested.
Load More Replies...The kicker is that if you wanna unsubscribe, you can't just do it on the website. You gotta CALL to get it done 😂😂😭😭
I'm making a blanket fort. Bring chocolate milk or wine. I'm not picky.
Let's do it like real kids on birthday parties and make that chocolate milk wine cocktail! ♡
Load More Replies...I’d like to go back to childhood for a second try. Then again, growing up in today’s economy is probably even worse than the one I grew up in and was screwed by. School is more of a joke and jobs are utter abuse and don’t pay shite. I was lucky the first time around... and I’m on disability now from employer-created PTSD.
At my age, I'll be unsubscribing sooner than later. Looking back, I've come to the realization that adulting is a royal pain in the ass.
Without the drawer, they're in a pile. Without the pile, they're around the house. But they are NEVER in the trash because I need each one of the 18 chargers that work with nothing in my house. I just do.
Oh yes. Sooo many cables, yet the one cable you need in that moment is nowhere to be found.
It's not just me?! I still have land-line phone cables that I doubt I'll ever use again.
I actually got to use my decade-old phone cable a while back. I only had it because where I live there are designated places to dispose of old electronics, but they're in inconvenient places so I've been collecting old chargers, cables, headphones, lightbulbs and such for a few years now. I felt extremely vindicated on that one occasion when my laziness finally paid off.
Load More Replies...And you're not sure if you still have the device that they are designed to fit but you know if you get rid of them, that Bluetooth speaker that is in the basement that you only use when you clean out the basement, will be dead and need to be charged... with the charger you threw out.
Just today I was comparing with my 50ish daughter about where we stash all these items.
To be fair it's the first decade you realise that you can have any body pain for no reason at all
Load More Replies...In your sixties you wake up amazed that you made it through another night.
Well - if you're over 50 and doesn't wake up hurting somewhere - you're probably dead ;-)
Gosh, you need to be on Claritin. Or get a humidifyer. Don't live like that, sweetheart
It's the opposite for me. My natural clock, when it runs without interference, has me going to bed at 4 am, up at 11 am. While I was working on dayshift, it moved to midnight to 5 am. I retired, and I am trying to continue to get up at 8-9, but I feel the late night lifestyle starting to call my name.
Load More Replies...When I hit the couch its over. I only watch movies Ive already seen these days because I know I wont make it to the end.
Unless you're a night owl, so you have no choice but go to bed late, wake up feeling awful and having to have a nap in the afternoon
Lol I wish) I finish aowrk at 9, it's literally impossible to go to sleep before 2am.
God, when I was in my 30s I was still young. What happened to your generation that you have become such whimps.
30s are the perfect time for a midlife crisis. Everybody has the confidence they didn't have in highschool. None of the girls care who thinks they're a s**t anymore. You can finally afford a cool car to do lines in outside the bar that finally quit carding you. Its like being an adult and a teenager all at once.
Load More Replies...These days when I get out of bed, I sound like a bowl of rice crispies ( or rice bubbles for my fellow Aussies).. lots of snap, crackle and pop 😶
Load More Replies...A lot of these are so relatable I'm actually having a laugh and enjoying knowing it's not just me! 😂
ikr? Love that we're all seeing that we're all the same!
Load More Replies...A friend once told me that a sign of aging is that you make noises when you do things. She was right
Involuntary noises, which sometimes you don't hear, but everyone else in the room does.
Load More Replies...I love having baths. But I base my bath nights on whether I think I can get out of the tub.
I cringed the day I bought grab bars to put on the side of my tub so I could get out of it! That was the day after I had to get on my hands & knees in the tub so I could climb out 😞
Load More Replies...If any older Brits are reading this, Petula's trapped wind in Dinnerladies used to seem like a hilarious joke. Not now.
What until the snap, crack, pop of your joints out volumes your grunts.
See like not all dad noises are bad dad noises. So like maybe sometimes mum might say, hon, kids' gone away camping for the weekend, why don't we do some toe-curling? And then dad might lean in to a real Tony the Tiger dad noise like, grrrrrreat!
OMG, OMG ! From Fibromyalgia to Arthritis my body is screaming at me..I try to tell it to shut up but the mind and body don't cooperate anymore !
Or, in Ireland, copping it's started raining and pegging it out to grab it in off the line before it gets soaked again!!
Or being out and then your clothes are just wet for another week
Load More Replies...My washing machine is beeping, when it's done. And it doesn't stop until you care. It's very needy...
Owww.... Mine just sings a cute little song and that's it.
Load More Replies...I always started at 6 in the morning to be the first one. 🙄
Load More Replies...I remember those days when the laundry was the barracks coin operated washer and dryer, and some asshole would steal your clothes or throw them in the trash because you didn't empty it quick enough.
Upvote to make all the laundry chores to go away! (I mean like always clean, i should invent a shirt that once you take it off it self cleans itself).
My wash routine is always one regular cycle then once rinse and spin cycle the following day because I forgot about the first cycle
Nah, Just bloody rain. Well it means the washing is getting an extra rinse, (I always thought that dryers turn themselves off! They did when I has one to dry nappies in.)
Ok.. I just literally said this. I had stuff in the dryer and forgot. LOL
Using a good pen has always brought me joy. Maybe I'm weird but I love stationary.
I use the Dr. Grip. Nice and fat so my hand doesn't cramp up. That's the first thing I do when I get to work is pull that baby out. Sadly, the highlight of my workday.
Load More Replies...Brought me joy through all my childhood, because fountain pens are mandatory at schools here in Germany.
I am left-handed so not all pens work for me. I need to carry one with me all the time. So, yes, pure joy with the right pen
Cleaning the litter box makes you feel like you accomplished something.
My dog manipulates me into going to bed early. She decides when bedtime is.
Exactly !! I can't wait to get in bed but then I don't want to get out..5 am comes way to early !! It's still dark !!
I tell my bed more times that I love it than I do my husband, he’s ok with it but tells me to shut up as he’s “trying to sleep” after a while
I can't remember who said it but you're supposed to do two things that you don't like everyday to build your character. My two things are going to bed and getting up. Also getting in the shower and getting out of the shower.
Yeah, I honestly don't care now. DIfferent story when I was 5, back then it was basically cyanide as far as I was concerned.
Load More Replies...Eh, by the time I see a bruise I just let it go further to make banana bread.
I like my bananas still rather green, and detest banana bread, but any bananas I have that are turning spotty get frozen and either made into "ice cream" or dipped in chocolate if I have time... and chocolate.
If it's not too bruised, I like that bit of the banana! I only hate the stringy bits and the bottom bit that exists out of spite.
I noticed much less food waste when I started using that phrase!
Load More Replies...I still have trouble guessing the age of anyone between 15 and 25....everyone is just "kid" in my mind now.
Load More Replies...me talking to anybody under 22, is like, "where are your parents little guy?"
I work on a military base. Every morning young, babyfaced MP's, armed to the teeth, and wearing bulletproof vests, check my ID as I drive through the gate. I'm so tempted to ask "does your mother know where you are?" They're just kids playing war
Load More Replies...And, at some point, “kids” starts to include anyone still in their twenties.
When I was in my teens, I thought most “real” adults were 40 years old. Robert Palmer: 40. David Bowie: 40. Sigourney Weaver: 40. This was in the mid eighties.
I think this is part of the reason why Hollywood thinks they can get away with casting 26-year olds as high schoolers.
20 year olds are looking like young teenagers now. It's weird seeing these 20 somethings working, trying to be successful and all that.
The other day, I saw a bagging clerk at the grocery store and I swear he looked no more than 13. I'm thinking "are you even legally allowed to work?" Didn't say it of course, because it's probably insulting.
Where I live, kids are allowed to work a limited number of hours at the age of 14, in specific types of jobs. I worked as a grocery cashier a few years back, and we had 14 year olds working as baggers who looked like they were 10. It depends on the state laws, at least here in the U.S.
Load More Replies...I remember being in preschool and thinking that 10 year olds looked so tall and seemed so smart, they were basically almost-adults. Oh, how the perspective has changed that outlook...
Maybe try a pet stone first? They are far easier to take with you than a bin. Good luck convincing an airline to transport your emotional support bin as hand luggage...
Load More Replies...Having a breakdown because I forgot to put you out in time and now have to figure out how to squeeze in 3 weeks of trash into an already overflowing bin.
It takes such an effort to get out of bed immediately. Try it. Once you realize it gives you a 100% better start to the day, you’ll survive the initial dread each morning. Promise.
Load More Replies...My trick is to sleep in a cold room like 62° in my underwear under two blankets and when it's time to wake up I throw the covers off. The cold is like an espresso shot
Same... I have to wake up about 6:30 most mornings.
Load More Replies...Just set your alarm for when you actually will get up - playing that 3-minute game is just not doing you any good.
My mind says the same. I'm still trying to convince my body every Damm morning.
Load More Replies...Hey, whatever it takes to get your body from “F**K NO!!” to “OK, FINE!!🤬”…
I've learned time passes the quickest after hitting your snooze and passes the slowest when you're waiting for anything to cook in an air fryer.
If you are smart enough you can figure a way to do this at work so no one notices!
My favorite is when I would wake up at 4.58 am... and wasn't sure to be outraged that I woke up too early, or grateful for another two minutes.
I set my alarm to go every 5 minutes in the morning and i be like "only 5 more buzzes and i will get up"
Not only about your favorite dinosaur! Also about your favorite color, second favorite color, favorite Disney princess, song, shoes, number, letter....YES you have to have a favorite letter! 😅
Load More Replies...And there's SO MANY new ones available! Since the 2000s we are truly living in the golden age of paleontology, with more species named after 2000 than in the 200y before that! So, make sure you have a fresh new favourite.
When I was a kid everyones favorite was Tyrannosaurus. If someone said something else, we thought that kid was trying to be edgy.
velociraptor always and forever... And the Jurassic Park ones, because those are quite obviously the REAL interpretation. Not what the silly scientists say
Load More Replies...I care, please tell me. Mine is the brontosaurus because I love the long neck and tail combo and it looks super friendly.
And not ONE PERSON asked me if I could run faster with my new shoes.
I'm not optimistic that I'll have a pension until then
Load More Replies...When I started work my salary was 20 pounds a week (aka $40) :-( We thought we were rich when our bank balance got up to 100 pounds ($200),
my mom always do be wondering how every time we went to the store we would spend like 400-590 dollars. and we went every other week ; - ;
I think it did for most of us. Now instead of trusting my 17 year old to do it, I do it myself.
Load More Replies...It's remarkable to me how many of us have this horrible experience as part of our childhoods. I always thought I was such a failure for having forgotten to take the chicken (or ground beef) out of the freezer until about an hour before my parents were supposed to get home and then rushing to take it out of the freezer and put it under the hottest tap water possible to soak to try to defrost quickly. I thought literally no one else in the world was as inept as I was. But to hear that so many other children had that same experience is wild... and heartening as well. I'm glad we were all screwups as kids.
You should put a shrine on it as it's where your food goes to die... I think I can hear taps playing in the background...
Load More Replies...And you did not understand it the first time, when you had to wait for three hours longer than usual before dinner?
*sigh* If you work from 9-5, oh never mind.
Load More Replies...Ohhh, I'm so sorry! I'm just numb most of the time because if I start crying it'll be hard to stop.
Load More Replies...Put them in the bathroom with no diversions. Tantrums prolong the torture.
i used to thing bed time was a punishment just imagine youre late for work go back to bed
bro, im not an adult yet, and I completely understand this fully :')
I can't do the thing, I am too busy worrying about doing the thing!
Well, I'm not an adult yet and I've read BP for long enough to realize that most adults in authority are kind of frauds haha. I have mastered the ability to guess what your childhood was like based on your behavior as an authoritative figure, ooooo *intense music as I open my third eye*
No third eye needed. Just a good set of critical thinking skills and the will to observe. Good job!
Load More Replies...Tfw you're a teacher yourself and you realize that teachers show videos on days they're hungover/running on 4 hours sleep/need to get grading done/etc.
Teacher here. Paid to be good. It takes its toll. When it’s time to throw down. We’re ready.
Very glad I'm 1) a retired teacher and 2) I did all my wild doings well before the internet. Of course, some is still there, since I have the world's most gigantic digital footprint dating from 1992.
Way to make it to the promised land Katiekat! I'm also a ret'd teacher and I don't know if I'd recommend it as a career now, which makes me sad. And yes, I was that wild friend who ended up teaching America's youth, and they loved me.
Load More Replies...It's true! I'm a teacher and I've never met anyone who drinks like a teacher! But then considering we teach sometimes up to 150 teenagers a day, it isn't that surprising!
I had an English Literature teacher in high school who would talk about drinking in her bathtub until passing out every night. As a kid, I thought she was funny. Now, I feel bad for her.
I truly am frightened on these multi lane hiways just stay to the right we gotta turn off somewhere!
Haha my 50 year old brother has been doing this since he got his license at 16. I'm in my 40s and driving of any sort causes high anxiety for me 😂
Load More Replies...I cried when I had to think of beneficiaries for my insurance because I had to think of dying. I don't want to die.
Think positive .That means you're not morbidly depressed...yet.
Load More Replies...Its all relative. Each new measure of time is a smaller percent of your life than the last. Thats why one year seems 10 times shorter to a 50 year old than to a 5 year old.
I'm sure that's one reason, another one would be routine and no new exciting experiences that are worth remembering.
Load More Replies...It seems the older I get the faster time goes by..a week feels like 2-3 days and a month feels like maybe a couple weeks..I want time to slow down..I still have alot I want to do and need that time to do it !!
I took my elderly mother out for a nice meal in a local cafe/bistro, and afterwards we crossed the street to get some groceries. A car comes down a side street to our right, slows down, and crawls past us at like 2mph as we cross. But according to my mother the driver was going "Awfully fast..."
Ain't that the sad truth. I ended up panicking one day because I didn't panic at all that day.
Load More Replies...Getting older, I've reached the point where I've gotten from having really bad panic attacks to a constant fear that's a little less bad but never really goes away. 😕
Me driving in the tunel thinking of where to pull off in case of panic attack which makes me have a small panic attack, so yeah.
I've never had one, and now I am afraid to even think about it, lest I have one in anticipation.
HA HA. Life goes on EXACTLY the same after retirement, though it is the young generation bossing you about.
Load More Replies...I keep saying to myself, "if nobody is coming back from the future to stop me, how bad can it go?"
When I was a child I looked forward to adult hood because I thought then that people would take me seriously. Honestly it doesn't happen. Seriously it goes from "What would yo know, you're too young!" to "What would you know, you're SO old." As my doc said, Life is just one short trip from the womb to the tomb.
HA. My neighbors wife said this to herself the day before all the power went out for a week. Her husband was a bit flustered worrying about having to go anywhere right up until he realized he had not refilled the BBQ propane tank and had to borrow my camp stove and bottled propane to cook anything. Lessons learned. There are benefits to being an avid outdoors person.
Retirement age just seems to be increasing :( Do you think it will ever start decreasing at least by few years?
28 - 4000 BC: I am the oldest member of the tribe and it's an honour to be chosen for the sacrifice
Then you start comparing the cost per 100g and have to decide which is the better purchase at the moment.
And that's when using unit cost comes in, kids.
Load More Replies...When a British person has a pre-decimal flashback and thinks "these things used to cost half a crown each"
I still sometimes calculate Euro back to Deutsche Mark...
Load More Replies...I don't know about any where else but in Canada we have 2fers Like 2for4 dollars but one costs you $2.45. Never used to be like that in the olden days! I know I'm dumb at math but DAMN!!!!!!!
thinking about it. there will be an age when all your friends babies are too drunk to find their phones.
There will be an age when mankind’s bones are naught but dust and ash.
Load More Replies...I am old enough to be a great grandma (UK) and have never acquired kids. My friends are childfree too.
Nothing magically appeared... Your parents/ guardians were feeling the same way you are now back then. It's a vicious circle.
You can give up on q-tips, and make your own laundry detergent.
I don't get q-tips, really. One of the most useless, harmful and polluting manufactured objects I can think of.
Load More Replies...You just have to accept they are giving whether reports, not weather.
YES! I recall a recent study where some researchers claimed that changes in weather are not related to aching bones & joints. Eff them, the bone in my arm that got a green stick fracture at the age of 11 never aches until there's a change in weather coming. No frikkin researcher or doctor actually feels what I do, so they can kma with their study!
Load More Replies...I have been alone since young, don’t mind it one bit. Didn’t mind it then, certainly don’t mind it now
Me too. Although SOMETIMES I do mind. And as I get older, I get a little scared. I'm totally happy with my own company. I have no desire to marry and I don't regret not having kids. I wouldn't change it, but every so often, I get a little lonely.
Load More Replies...I think once you get to 40-something you realise people are full of it and mostly prefer your own company.
^This. The older I get, the less tolerance I have for people.
Load More Replies...Depends on how you spent your childhood and youth - being alone can be a joyous relief
That was definitely one of those "didn't know I needed it until I had it" things!
I was just going to comment the same thing! I have an architect's lamp with a magnifying glass in it that I use for sewing. Plus 2 magnifying glasses with battery operated lights. Yeah, I probably also need to get my eyes checked & get glasses too.
Load More Replies...So...if one were to summon a demon in your home, could you start charging it rent right away? Asking for a friend.
There was an antique shop on one of those haunted places the other day where the resident ghost will sort clothing if it's just piled up and I was like ... where do I sign up for this ghost?
Load More Replies...After 50: 1. The cords are in a box. Somewhere. Just go buy a new one. It's easier. 2. Tupperware and lids are stored together and those without lids are In a box. Somewhere. 3. Anxiety. Soooooo much anxiety! 4. A collection of plastic bags in a plastic bag waiting to be used as a trash bag in the bedrooms, bathrooms, and car. 5. Sleep deprivation. Ovrnight bathroom visits. Undersleeping (you wake before the alarm and can't go back to sleep. More sleep deprivation.
I am 42 at the moment and must admit - none of the above. Am I doing this adulting thing wrong or do I just not care enough?
Yes. Spring mattresses suck balls. They are super uncomfortable. Memory foam is the way, the truth, and the light.
Very much agreed. My teacher one time said her brother laid on her memory foam mattress for a bit (he’s a lot bigger than her) and when she lied down where he was it was like a warm cocoon just wrapped around her
Load More Replies...I have a select comfort. It gave me 21 years of perfect sleep over 5 or 6 moves. I just deflated it, rolled it up and carried it to the car. No lumps or sag ever before, but it seems to have sprung a slow leak now.
Actually, I do have strong opinions on mattresses. I want one that's not toxic, and not one step away from being solidified gasoline. But those kind are expensive.
Brooklyn Bedding has a great hybrid mattress, cotton wool top, natural latex, Bloom, I think it's called. Not even horrible expensive!
Load More Replies...Zero. Exclamation points make you sound too hyper and does not convey your inner death.
Zero. Being passive-agressive and overly-politely-insulting is much more satisfying.
At a very young age, I learnt to let out the fury by crying. People though I was soft and easily upset. I was trying not to put them in hospital and me in secure accommodation.
And teenage is whining "Why are there always ball-breakers to break my balls-uh?! Hello, grandma..."
Read a list of "stims" that people do. I found that I've always done all of them. Must be normal
Middle age is saying "WTF it's saturday again already? Hallefuckinluyah thank god thank god i can sleep".
But as soon as you finish that sentence, it's monday again already.
Load More Replies...Same. It’s the handicapped one because it’s all the rom I have there for my skinny ass. And I’m not even disabled
Load More Replies...I have one in the kitchen that has a sensor, so it opens when my hand gets near it. Great for when I am holding myself upright with the other hand.
The ones on which you press a pedal with your foot, so you don't have to touch it directly.
Remember in comedy movies there was that dad, who kept weird old outfits and told "That was a great trend, it will come back, you'll see"? I am that dad now.
Except when another shopper starts singing along & they have a horrible singing voice!
Load More Replies...Makes you realize that nudists have the right idea. It's all about practicality!
Load More Replies...Oh God yes. I am arranging a funeral and dealing with all the stuff that comes with it and I have spent the last week looking around for a grown up who can help me with it all. I'm 45.
So sorry! And while you do this, the damn world keeps spinning round and round... seems insulting somehow. May you find good help and healing.
Load More Replies...Fortunately here that's not quite how it goes, people start to hassle you about marriage when you get to 30-something.
Can confirm on the marriage bit...but my mother is slowly starting the "oh look at this cute baby" conversation.
Load More Replies...I wonder when it changed from "you're so young" to "you look so young" when people hear my age. Probably was around 25? Nowadays I get a look of sheer disbelief, so I must be doing something right!
*chuckle* I felt that way at 37 when as a mature student in college I had a professor 2 years younger than me.
Load More Replies...My friend is buying me a car battery for a Christmas present. I'm so happy!
Whenever I expect visitors and they absolutely want to bring a gift I ask them for a bag of potatoes - 2,5 kgs, 3 kgs, 10 kgs - whatever you think is appropriate. I love them, I'll eat them, I would otherwise have to buy them myself and no, I definitely do not need another scented candle!
A fully functioning skeleton, with good connecting parts that don't hurt and a more cooperative brain
I will fight you if you say a back burner. Lower left, I could see, if you have a different kitchen layout than me, but back burners are only for 3-4 items at once, which is not possible without burning down the house.
Or complaining about the ridiculous noise kids listen to these days and realise with horror you turned into your dad.
Fortunately I kept up with music but I totally grinch my kids about minecraft. I mean, compare the graphics to any other modern game and you are like really is that the best they could do in my day duke nukem had better graphics than that.
Load More Replies...Me for every day I have to stay home from school cause I tested positive for covid
Load More Replies...Mine's a half an hour later than yours lol. I get some peaceful me time with the animals before the other humans wake up lol
Load More Replies...I became an adult before I started school. Did anyone else's family's kids stick black olives on their fingers at Thanksgiving dinner (USA) or other family gatherings?
Pretending you are a person that can do what you need to do, then going home and hiding under the covers until you recover from having done it.
Wait til you hit your 70th birthday. Mine was 3 months ago & I'm still reeling.
I can remember as a kid thinking to myself that in the year 2000 I'd be practically dead because I'd turn 40.
Sorry for the delay, I will talk to you shortly.-I will forget that you ever existed in the next 5 minutes.
God bless grandparents and their "still thinking in francs instead of euros" annual generosity!
Who says that? Nobody says that! Everyone knows your best years are your 30s!
"Hello dear friend in christ. I am Abuja Banjango, a prince from Lagos, Nigeria. etc etc" .. that mail.
I got one of those, but it was a scam email about a guy went to this African prince to increase his d**k length. I swear I never signed up about that. I swear on my dog.
Load More Replies..."Mister Deschanel. I must sadly inform you of the death of your estranged millionnaire great-grand-uncle..."
I just want to lie in bed WITH Taylor Swift but I don't think that's gonna happen. Sigh.
You are in good company, ZAPanda. Would you like a hot chocolate?
Load More Replies...You know you are old when you can look back to when you were 50 and reminisce about when you were young.
Yeah, being an adult is damn hard, but I certainly do not miss my teen years.
Me neither but I miss my teenage body. Would love to trade it for that shipwreck of a body I have nowadays. 😅
Load More Replies...At age 46: unemployed and on Disability (sleep and PTSD, thanks to so-called healthcare and prior employers). Poverty. Alone most of the time. Hate where I live. Hate my house. Screwed up family. No friends local. Girlfriend is on the other end of the continent. This is not the life I was propagandized into believing was waiting for me as an adult. Hard work doesn’t accomplish shite without being born into a LOT of privilege. On top of all this adulthood disappointment is my ongoing realization (starting in my teens) that most adults are actually just idiot children in bigger bodies and professionalism is a goddamned joke. These are not the lies I was promised.
Seems to be a lot of people commenting on being adults in their 30's. Wait until you hit 50!
Wait until you hit your 40's. There should be classes or books available like those "Your changing body" ones for preteens.
In the UK there's a series of books for small children called 'That's not my dog/bear/cat' etc. There should be something for the middle-aged: 'That's not my face/hair/backside/husband'.
Load More Replies...And how excited you are when the new spatula looks great AND is easy to clean.
I had this awesome spatula years ago. It had a turner on one side and a scraper on the other. It melted one day and I went to go find another one and THEY STOPPED MAKING THEM! Why is it so hard to find the things that you have that wear out with the exact same one. Stupid fast fashion.
Load More Replies...When you hit 40 and you get more spam email and snail mail from AARP and burial planning insurance. Like they are saying hurry TF up and die.
My BIL was getting AARP mailers in his twenties. Who knows how it works?
Load More Replies...You are in good company, ZAPanda. Would you like a hot chocolate?
Load More Replies...You know you are old when you can look back to when you were 50 and reminisce about when you were young.
Yeah, being an adult is damn hard, but I certainly do not miss my teen years.
Me neither but I miss my teenage body. Would love to trade it for that shipwreck of a body I have nowadays. 😅
Load More Replies...At age 46: unemployed and on Disability (sleep and PTSD, thanks to so-called healthcare and prior employers). Poverty. Alone most of the time. Hate where I live. Hate my house. Screwed up family. No friends local. Girlfriend is on the other end of the continent. This is not the life I was propagandized into believing was waiting for me as an adult. Hard work doesn’t accomplish shite without being born into a LOT of privilege. On top of all this adulthood disappointment is my ongoing realization (starting in my teens) that most adults are actually just idiot children in bigger bodies and professionalism is a goddamned joke. These are not the lies I was promised.
Seems to be a lot of people commenting on being adults in their 30's. Wait until you hit 50!
Wait until you hit your 40's. There should be classes or books available like those "Your changing body" ones for preteens.
In the UK there's a series of books for small children called 'That's not my dog/bear/cat' etc. There should be something for the middle-aged: 'That's not my face/hair/backside/husband'.
Load More Replies...And how excited you are when the new spatula looks great AND is easy to clean.
I had this awesome spatula years ago. It had a turner on one side and a scraper on the other. It melted one day and I went to go find another one and THEY STOPPED MAKING THEM! Why is it so hard to find the things that you have that wear out with the exact same one. Stupid fast fashion.
Load More Replies...When you hit 40 and you get more spam email and snail mail from AARP and burial planning insurance. Like they are saying hurry TF up and die.
My BIL was getting AARP mailers in his twenties. Who knows how it works?
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