# I knew I was a \_\_\_\_\_\_ when I \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 10, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-i-was-a-______-when-i-________/108397 "2002-05-10T23:39:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Waldo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Waldo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waldo)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-i-was-a-______-when-i-________/108397/1 "2002-05-10T23:39:20Z")
I knew I was **an insurance agent** when **I saw a woman smoking and thought, "Don’t you know the awful rates you’ll get because of that?"** You guys? ---
**Author:** ![Tiggamoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tiggamoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiggamoo)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-i-was-a-______-when-i-________/108397/2 "2002-05-11T00:25:39Z")
I knew I was a **college graduate** when I **picked up my cap and gown, brought it home, tried it on, and realized I’m wearing a board on my head!** :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-i-was-a-______-when-i-________/108397/3 "2002-05-11T03:09:28Z")
I knew I was a **college grad liberal arts major** when I **got a job as a delivery truck driver.** ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-i-was-a-______-when-i-________/108397/4 "2002-05-11T03:33:02Z")
I knew I was a **pickin’** when I **saw she was a-grinnin’.** Don’t ask me. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-i-was-a-______-when-i-________/108397/5 "2002-05-11T03:33:53Z")
I knew I was an adult when I saw “The Breakfast Club,” and thought “Those kids were a bunch of whiney assholes. The only character I felt sorry for was the poor teacher who had to waste his weekend babysitting them.” ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-i-was-a-______-when-i-________/108397/6 "2002-05-11T13:38:50Z")
I knew I was a physicist when my younger brother asked me for help on his chemistry coursework, and I ended up giving him a lecture on the quantum mechanical theory about the bonding in copper sulphate crystals… Yoi’ll know if you’re a physics or chemistry major if you actually understood that 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-i-was-a-______-when-i-________/108397/7 "2002-05-11T13:45:05Z")
That should be “you’ll” as opposed to “yoi’ll” Damn having to revise! [hijack] Sorry… but just who’s idea was it to make us do a 3 hour exam paper on \*\*everything[\b] we’ve ever done in the previous 3 years??? [\end hijack] ---
**Author:** ![MrAndrewV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@MrAndrewV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAndrewV)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-i-was-a-______-when-i-________/108397/8 "2002-05-11T17:10:56Z")
1)“I knew I was a mean muthafucka when I beat up those three guys for beating on my friend.” 2) I knew I was a Psychology Student when a gorgeous babe told me that she had just dumped her boyfriend and was feeling really lonely and instead of picking her up I spent the rest of the night comforting her. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-knew-i-was-a-______-when-i-________/108397/9 "2002-05-12T02:55:00Z")
I knew I was in a fratnerity when I thought how cool it was that because of Syracuse’s weather one could comfortably wear a lettered sweatshirt for 8 months out of the year. **MrAndrewV** , been there. It sucks. Damn Abrahams. 😉