# Growing pains into the adult world **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pains-into-the-adult-world/735344 "2015-10-21T11:58:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pains-into-the-adult-world/735344/21 "2015-10-23T10:12:28Z")
This one happens after being in the working world for a while. You realize at some point in the past, you had your last summer. There won’t be another one for 45 years – if you’re lucky. ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pains-into-the-adult-world/735344/22 "2015-10-24T01:38:42Z")
When I had my first apartment in college, I invited a girl over for dinner. She was not impressed when I found out that you _can_ burn spaghetti. When I finally bought a bigger pot, she was gone. ---
**Author:** ![Soulcatcher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Soulcatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soulcatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pains-into-the-adult-world/735344/23 "2015-10-24T01:53:18Z")
I decided as a college student to attempt my first fish fry. Bought some smelt, tossed them in a non stick pan, and started cooking. Oil? What do you need that for? Turned into a disgusting mess that stank up apartment for a week. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pains-into-the-adult-world/735344/24 "2015-10-24T01:56:20Z")
My college roommate taught me a lot about classical music and I taught her how to write a check and how to make a long distance phone call. Her mother had given her a checkbook but no instructions and she never asked. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pains-into-the-adult-world/735344/25 "2015-10-24T04:09:45Z")
I found that the legal system is not as simple as seen on tv when I got a DUI at age 18 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pains-into-the-adult-world/735344/26 "2015-10-24T04:45:41Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Well, here’s a third-person story my doctor told me. > > I had a bit of, um, hemorrhoid trouble. Doctor prescribed medicated suppositories, which come wrapped in form-fitting heavy aluminum foil. The doctor felt it would be prudent to advise me to remove the foil before use, saying that he once had a middle-aged female patient who somehow didn’t figure that out. :eek: An [ethnic person of your choice] was suffering from constipation, so his doctor prescribed suppositories. A week later the [ethnic person of your choice] complained to the doctor that he had been taking them each day but they didn’t produce the desired results. “What?” said the doctor. “Have you been _swallowing_ them!?” “What do you think I’ve been doing,” the [ethnic person of your choice] said, “shoving them up my ass?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-pains-into-the-adult-world/735344.md?page=1)