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In every millennial's life, there is that one day and that one time that you say something to yourself or out loud and then stop for a second in awe. Whatever the sentence was, you couldn’t have imagined saying it unless, well, you’re middle-aged. Be it “I am looking forward to going to bed” or “Why is the music so loud in here?!” and then all of a sudden, the moment of realization hits and the lightbulb switches on: I am definitely ageing. And before you change your mind from getting takeout to actually going home and cooking the chicken that’s been sitting in your fridge for a few days now, take a look at the list below of the best things people have caught themselves saying that made them realize they’re slowly knocking at the middle-aged people's door.

The online community r/AskReddit, labelling themselves as “the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions,” was a perfect platform for the user naxxfish to fire it out to the millennials: “What was the most middle-aged thing you caught yourself saying recently?” And, well, the answers were ranging from hilarious to hysterical to "I can actually totally relate." Vote for your favorite ones and let us know yours!

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group That's a nice box, keep it.

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just a hamilfan (hufflepuff)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've done this my whole life. (i used them to store markers and pens and other random crap i kept in my room)

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group Not something I said but I just stood out on my porch this morning drinking my coffee and someone drove by pretty fast and I thought “that’s way too fast”

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June
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you are aware of people walking, kids, animals.... yeah, that's way too fast. Nothing to do with middle-age or so.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group I tried listening to the iTunes top 100 yesterday for a change of pace and it all sounded like hot garbage, “WHAT ARE KIDS EVEN LISTENING TO THESE DAYS?!”

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John C
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're listening to whatever their parents won't. Same as last generation. And the one before that.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group Scrolling through my Spotify and constantly asking who the hell are these people?

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A U T O P H O B I A
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Okay but seriously who the hell are they? Like i've never listened to them why tf do they keep showing up

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group I slept wrong and haven’t been able to turn my head for three days.

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Asy EnderDragon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i did this and i am gen-z.................it hurt so bad ;-; I was in total pain and i lied in bed for days

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#7

Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group Calling a 21 year-old guy a “kid”.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group You want to go out for dinner? Oh no, I can’t; I have chicken in the fridge that I have to cook before it goes bad

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This could also be a young person thing because a lot of young people are broke.

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#9

Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group "Oh no thank, you. I can't have caffeine this late in the day or I'll never get to sleep tonight."

My spouse was offering me the last soda from the fridge. It was 1pm.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group I was venting to a coworker about these noisy bastards living next to me. I actually said the words, “goddamn teenagers and their Bluetooth machines”. I stand by my admonition but man it was my greatest age leap forward since I embraced the sensible Toyota.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group Had a riveting conversation with some friends about the best office chairs for lumbar support.

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The Chosen One
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, I personally think everything needs lumbar support. I'm 15 and I don't know what a lumbar is but I do know they need support!

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group Wanted to buy a snack and then thought, "no, I have food at home"

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group Some kids ran through my lawn the other day. I'm still recovering.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group When my wife asked if there was anything she need to pick up at the store, and I responded: "I think we're out of asparagus."

Not sure what foul demon possessed me to to say those words.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group Why is the music so loud in here?!

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group My housemate: you want a drink?

Me: Nah, man. I haven't had a drink in... six months maybe? More?

My housemate: You stopped drinking?

Me: I'm not SOBER or anything, it's just that alcohol makes me sleepy.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Geez... am I millenial-ing wrong? *sips on 3rd beer of the evening while home, alone, reading boredpanda*

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group Why do I get up every day and crack like a glow stick with out the glow it’s so disappointing.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group "They just don't make them like they used to" them being good wood dressers

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group "When you leave a room, turn the light OFF!"

I've become my dad.....

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John C
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I got so tired of saying this, I've installed motion sensing switches throughout my house: basement, kitchen, hallway. It's actually pretty handy when you come into the room with your hands full, should have done it sooner.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group "Can the kids (in the park outside) shut up"

I am the grumpy old lady now.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes! Me too! And in de store, when a kid screams unnecessarily multiple times i can't help to blurt out 'why?!' Most of the time at least one person is smiling at me in understanding.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group I can't fix one thing in my house without at least 15 minutes of complaining about the previous owners handiwork.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like the nincompoop previous owner who installed fluorescent undercabinet lighting in 1993 using screws which were too long and penetrated through the bottom shelf of the cabinet and then just left them like that for 25 years.

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Bob Belcher
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Or the dumbass who installed the towel rod into the drywall with no mounting screws so now it hangs there half screwed into the wall because your kid decided to yank the towel off the bar at full force one day.

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Forty-Two
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The guy that built my house just left a live wire sticking thru the carpet

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Ivana
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh guys, I do this constantly because I bought a foreclosure. Worst one so far, we had sprung a leak and I was like, "Dang it, let me just bust open every wall in this storage closet to see what the heck is leaking now." Find it, drain pipe from the kitchen with a 3 inch by 1 inch gash...that someone had already found and put duct tape over. They tore a hole in the wall, saw the leak, then duct taped it and put the dry wall back up! It took me all of 5 minutes to cut out the old pipe and put in a new pipe. Total cost is about 25 cents worth of pipe and 10 cents of glue. Those incredibly lazy, worthless, so and sos!

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Lisa Shelton
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Aw man, we had to have an electrician come in because the last guy here used wiring from a frigging lamp cord instead of the proper house wiring when he was remodeling the downstairs and we nearly had a fire when the wiring overloaded.

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Callia Donoven
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My dad had to open up the wall for something and found rusty pipes waiting to blow next to live wires and elbows every where. "Well that's special"

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Sarah
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When I went to cook a meal for the first time in our new home, I discovered that the stovetop on the kitchen island had been installed backwards. In order not to hit your head on the overhead vent hood/cabinet, you have to stand on the opposite side and reach across the hot burners to reach the switches.

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Roxie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband and I bought our first home when i was 27 and he was 33 (technically millennials) which was supposed to be "move in ready". 7 months later we had to redo the entire house because the previous owners had cut through the wall beams to install piping, outlets, etc. Most of the walls have been basically "hanging in the air". So darn right I will be complaining about previous owners handiwork 😂

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Mary Peace
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, if the job had been done correctly in the first place, you wouldn't have to sort it out, would you? You'd be getting on with the thing you really wanted to do today, or else sat down with a cuppa or a glass of something decent.

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Markus Holstein
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I never found out what the previous owner of my mom's house used to glue the disgusting, booger-green tiles to the walls of the downstairs bathroom. Presumably it was the same adhesive used for the thermal protection tiles of the Space Shuttle, because I spent all afternoon chipping them off the wall in postal stamp-sized bits, before my stepdad had enough of it and used the percussion drill

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Cynthia McDonald
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

we found LAN cables in the pantry cupboard, like WTH are you doing in the pantry that can't connect via WiFi?

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KT
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

but it's true the previous people seriously suck....unless they were me ;)

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JP
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Haven't had a house yet where we didn't look at something and say "WTH were they doing here?"

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group I slapped a crate I had strapped onto the back of my car and said "This isn't going anywhere"

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group Quit touching the god damn thermostat, you’re driving the bill up.

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John C
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This isn't an age or generation thing, this happens when you start paying the bill. Welcome to the real world.

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group That classic “dad groan” when standing up

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group In a conversation with a friend "I managed to find a really good knife block recently..."

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group I had my bachelor party in Vegas recently.

I went to bed because I was tired, not because I was sloppy drunk like every other time I went to Vegas. Fml I’m old now

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group “No, I’m okay. It just takes my back a little while to loosen up in the morning.”

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group "I can't have curry after 6 or I'll have heartburn all night."

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Millennials Are Slowly Turning Middle-Aged And Here Are 30 Of The Funniest Things They Caught Themselves Saying Or Doing, As Shared In This Online Group "I will never financially recover from this"

Said after turning off yet another light left on in my home

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