# Surprise! You're an adult **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 6, 2000, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279 "2000-09-06T21:09:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/21 "2000-09-07T18:36:23Z")
I just realized something else - there will never be a playboy centerfold my age. There is no longer a chance of opening up a Playboy and seeing someone I went to school with. Damn, I feel so old. ---
**Author:** ![Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/22 "2000-09-07T19:22:30Z")
It was kind of in a good way. I remember years ago sitting down and eating half an Entenman’s raspberry-filled coffeecake by myself and there was no one to say I couldn’t do it. If I wanted to, I could. That’s when I finally felt like and adult. When I was young everything was shared and divided equally among my siblings. There were 8 of us, so we didn’t get much and if anyone tried to get a little more they heard it from the others. When I was in college I didn’t have the money to buy things like raspberry-filled coffeecakes. Once out of school though, I had the money to buy them and I could eat the whole thing if I wanted. That was my sign that I’d stepped into adulthood. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/23 "2000-09-07T19:30:02Z")
When a guy I work with didn’t know who Abbie Hoffman was (I’m not as old as Hoffman’s generation, but COME ON). When my wife, a professor, had students try to remember where they were when they heard the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded, and none of them remembered it at all. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/24 "2000-09-07T20:01:05Z")
Hi my name is Keith, I’m not an adult, I just play one in real life. At least that’s how I sometimes feeel. We all have an image of ourselves as being a certain age, for me it’s 24. It comes as a shock when I look at my drivers license and realize I’m 37 ☹ :: _sigh_ Even More Depressed in Saskatchewan: Keith ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/25 "2000-09-07T21:27:50Z")
This sucked- about 2 weeks before my 30th birthday, I was carded buying alcohol (not even for myself), and about 2 weeks AFTER said birthday, I was not carded. OMIGOD. I never get carded in Vegas anymore, even wearing my hair in a ponytail and sporting a college sweatshirt. The bag boys at my market call me Ma’am when I have my son with me (but miss when I’m alone!!!). I’m only 33, for Christ’s sake! And yes, I do feel old looking at what “those damn kids” are wearing. And I mentioned Duran Duran not too long ago, and these teeeny boppers had NO IDEA who I was talking about (good thing I didn’t mention Bob Dylan or something). ---
**Author:** ![Landsknecht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@Landsknecht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landsknecht)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/26 "2000-09-07T21:41:53Z")
When I was dating a woman who had a six year old daughter. The first time I caught myself saying “'cause we said so”, I almost cried. I think the very act of buying porn on your own sort of makes you feel grown up. 🙂 (or maybe even more juvenile, depending on how you look at it.) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/27 "2000-09-07T22:15:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > \*\*I just realized something else - there will never be a playboy centerfold my age. There is no longer a chance of opening up a Playboy and seeing someone I went to school with. Damn, I feel so old. \*\* Big ol’ dittos, dude. That was my first realization that I was getting old: when a girl younger than myself was the centerfold in Playboy. Sadder still, I was 18 at the time (she was 6 months younger than I), and went to a high school in my hometown. sigh… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/28 "2000-09-07T22:16:39Z")
Er, that should be “and **she** went to a high school in my hometown.” The one time I don’t preview, and look what happens. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/29 "2000-09-08T13:22:13Z")
My farts, on average, last about 6-8 seconds. Nose hairs shoot out of my nostrils faster than I can clip them. My son’s friend calls me sir…polite little bastard. My wife plucks my errant ear hair…“Oh look, another one…giggle giggle” Ah shit…now I have to lie down. ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/30 "2000-09-08T13:25:01Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by_\* Montgomery Burns\*\* \* > \*\*It was kind of in a good way. I remember years ago sitting down and eating half an Entenman’s raspberry-filled coffeecake by myself and there was no one to say I couldn’t do it. If I wanted to, I could. That’s when I finally felt like and adult. > \*\* Exactly…er Excellent ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/31 "2000-09-08T13:49:10Z")
The first time I realized I was getting old was when I was subbing at a High School. I had been with this class for a week and on Friday I wore an Ozzy Osbourne t-shirt. it started off by no one knowing who Ozzy was. but the REAL kicker was when some kid said “I used to like that Ozzy song No More Tears when I was like 8!” :eek: that song came out when I was in college. if was a HUGE smack to the face. the good thing is that I still get carded! ---
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/32 "2000-09-08T14:04:46Z")
…I knew I was an adult the first time I got sick and mom was too far away to take care of me. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/33 "2000-09-08T15:00:38Z")
When I realized I have a lawyer and an insurance agent. ---
**Author:** ![Bubble\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Bubble\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bubble_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/34 "2000-09-08T15:31:48Z")
I realized it when one of my daughters friends introduced me to her parents as “Courtney’s Mom”. I thought to myself “I’m not Shannon anymore, I’m someones mom now.” When I set up my life insurance policy at work and had to designate a beneficiary for it. I’m not even 30 yet! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/35 "2000-09-08T22:54:00Z")
One day at work, I said something about Paul McCartney, and one of my staff members said "Oh, wasn’t he in the band “Wings?” Sigh… Truth is, I didn’t realize I was actually an adult until my mom got cancer, and I moved “home” to care for her while she slowly slipped from this world to heaven. Actually, I still usually forget that I am an adult. Until someone calls me ma’am. Yuck. Scotti ---
**Author:** ![BlackKnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BlackKnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlackKnight)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/36 "2000-09-09T02:11:43Z")
I alternate between feeling 15 and feeling 50. Far, far too often I feel the latter. I don’t think there’s ever been a time when I’ve actually felt my age! 🙂 (I’m 19 now, by the way.) ---
**Author:** ![Argeable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Argeable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argeable)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/37 "2000-09-09T02:26:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cher3 \* > \*\*Two words: > > Infant Suppository \*\* Woa…I read that “Infant Repository”…hmmm…note to self: visit the copyright office soon… ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/38 "2000-09-09T16:44:34Z")
It really hit my friend and me last year. Star Wars had just been re-released on video so we decided to watch it again. When we brought the video back to his house, we ended up in the following conversation with his wife’s friend: friend: Oh, I’ve heard of that movie, but I’ve never seen it. us: You’ve never seen it? How did you grow up without seeing Star Wars? friend: It was made the year before I was born. us: … –sublight. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2000, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/39 "2000-09-09T23:27:51Z")
I was in the company of several teenage girls. One of them used the S word. Another said “Shhhh! You’re not supposed to curse in front of grown-ups!” Grown-ups! ---
**Author:** ![Stentor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Stentor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stentor)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279/40 "2000-09-10T01:42:09Z")
I’m only 19, but I’d have to say when I became an Assistant Scout Master and the boys started calling me Mr. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprise-youre-an-adult/32279.md?page=3)