# Feeling like a grownup **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-like-a-grownup/439717 "2008-03-01T05:27:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-like-a-grownup/439717/21 "2013-12-16T04:29:26Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > Your parents come to visit you for the holidays rather than the other way around This was pretty much it for me. My parents had recently moved to California, and my sister was living in central Florida. I had a shiny new home. Come Thanksgiving, everyone flew to my place to be together. My home was the “family” home, somehow. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mr.Me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Me)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-like-a-grownup/439717/22 "2013-12-16T05:55:27Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Currently on holiday in South Asia, staying in a little grass shack on an awesome beach, eating street food, frolicking in the sea on my inner tube, and covering my bungalow porch with seashells and coral bits, Fuck growing up, I’m 57 and still feel 23! /thread You, good sir or madam, are my hero. Well done! wanders off drunkenly to watch My Little Pony : Friendship Is Magic [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/feeling-like-a-grownup/439717.md?page=1)