# When you're a kid/When you're an adult **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309 "2005-12-19T16:37:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/1 "2005-12-19T16:37:09Z")
When you’re a kid, baths and naps are the worst things in the world. When you’re an adult, baths and naps are the best things in the world. When you’re a kid, you long to be 21. When you’re an adult, you long to be 21. When you’re a kid, you don’t trust anyone over 30. When you’re an adult, you don’t trust anyone over 6. When you’re a kid, December 25th can’t come soon enough. When you’re an adult, December 26th can’t come soon enough. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/2 "2005-12-19T23:49:20Z")
When you’re a kid, you hate going to school and wish you were an adult so that you could go to work and call the shots. When you’re an adult, you hate going to work (and even hate calling the shots) and wish you could go back to school. ---
**Author:** ![Cranky\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cranky\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cranky_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/3 "2005-12-19T23:51:22Z")
When you’re a kid, you believe anything an adult tells you. When you’re an adult you don’t believe anyone. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2005, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/4 "2005-12-19T23:53:03Z")
When you’re a kid, you think staying up all night is the coolest idea in the world/when you’re an adult, you think staying up all night is the worst idea in the world. When you’re a kid, you swear you’re going to be a cooler parent than your parents/when you’re an adult, you don’t care about being ‘cool’ nearly as much as you care about 15 minutes of peace and quiet. When you’re a kid, shopping for clothes is _torture_/when you’re an adult (at least for most female-type adults), shopping for clothes is a _hobby_. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/5 "2005-12-20T00:16:38Z")
When you’re a kid, cooking is fun, when you’re an adult, it’s a chore. When you’re a kid, sex is funny, when you’re an adult, sex is hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/6 "2005-12-20T03:35:53Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > When you’re a kid, sex is funny, when you’re an adult, sex is hilarious. When you’re a kid, sex is gross. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/7 "2005-12-20T05:39:40Z")
When you’re a kid you get up at 6 am to watch cartoons. When you’re an adult you want to sleep until the news comes on at noon. When you’re a kid you could probably live on sugar-when you’re an adult just the thought of all that sweetness makes your teeth ache. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/8 "2005-12-20T05:56:22Z")
When you’re a kid most issues are black and white, when you’re an adult you see that most things are a shade of Grey. When you’re a kid the stars are colorful blinking lights in the sky, when your an adult they are simply white and somehow not as bright. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/9 "2005-12-20T06:14:39Z")
When you’re a kid, playing doctor with a girl feels naughty in a funny way. When you’re an adult, playing doctor with a girl feels naughty in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/10 "2005-12-20T06:38:46Z")
When you’re a kid, you spend your first few years in diapers. When you’re an adult, you spend your last few years in diapers. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/11 "2005-12-20T07:17:50Z")
When you’re a kid, racial awareness and preconceived notions about other kinds of people take years to instill. When you’re an adult, these same awarenesses and notions take years to die off. When you’re a child, you long for childish things. When you’re an adult, you put away childish things — and after sometime, grow nostalgic for those things again and then stupidly pay a premium to win them back again (in the original packaging) when you bid on eBay. When you’re a kid, your parents’ music choices kinda sucks. When you’re a parent, your kids’ music choices kinda sucks. When you’re a kid, you feel as though you long for the days ahead. When you’re an adult, you feel shorted on the days behind you. When you’re a kid, anyone older than you on TV or the movies seem like real stars. When you’re an adult, _only_ the people who were famous when you were a kid seem like _real_ stars. As a kid, familiarality breeds content. As an adult, it breeds contempt. Stolen from SEINFELD: When you’re a kid is, everything is “Up”: Grow up. Catch up. Run up. Talk it up! When you’re an adult everything is “Down”: Slow down. I feel run down. Write this down. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/12 "2005-12-20T10:56:11Z")
At age 4, success is … not peeing in your pants At age 12, " --" – " --"… having friends At age 17, " --" – " --"… having a driving licence At age 20, " --" – " --"… having sex At age 30, " --" – " --"… having money At age 40, " --" – " --"… having money At age 50, " --" – " --"… having sex At age 60, " --" – " --"… having a driving licence At age 70, " --" – " --"… having friends At age 80, " --" – " --"… not peeing in your pants ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/13 "2005-12-20T12:18:58Z")
When you’re a kid, smow means no school. Yeee-Haaa! When you’re an adult, it means you have to scrape off your car and sidewalks and somehow avoid all the idiots who can’t drive in the snow to get to work. Yeee-fucking-Haaa! ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/14 "2005-12-20T12:25:44Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > When you’re a kid, smow means no school. Yeee-Haaa! > > When you’re an adult, it means you have to scrape off your car and sidewalks and somehow avoid all the idiots who can’t drive in the snow to get to work. Yeee-fucking-Haaa! Kid or adult, snow makes you feel a teensy bit jealous. Snow sounds like fun, I’m sure in reality it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/15 "2005-12-20T12:26:14Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > When you’re a kid, smow means no school. Yeee-Haaa! > > When you’re an adult, it means you have to scrape off your car and sidewalks and somehow avoid all the idiots who can’t drive in the snow to get to work. Yeee-fucking-Haaa! Kid or adult, snow makes you feel a teensy bit jealous. Snow sounds like fun, I’m sure in reality it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/16 "2005-12-20T12:25:57Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > When you’re a kid, smow means no school. Yeee-Haaa! > > When you’re an adult, it means you have to scrape off your car and sidewalks and somehow avoid all the idiots who can’t drive in the snow to get to work. Yeee-fucking-Haaa! Kid or adult, snow makes you feel a teensy bit jealous. Snow sounds like fun, I’m sure in reality it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/17 "2005-12-20T12:28:03Z")
Oooops ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/18 "2005-12-20T13:35:56Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > Kid or adult, snow makes you feel a teensy bit jealous. Snow sounds like fun, I’m sure in reality it sucks. As a grown up, I can humbly ask permission to hijack this thread long enough to address this. Actually, snow (if it’s a significant amount) is fun for a day or two. The kids love it, it gives me a good excuse to stay in all day. It’s a good reason to make your favorite soup, stew or chili in the Crock Pot. It’s a _great_ reason to make hot cocoa with marshmallows. The older kids in the neighborhood get a chance to make a few bucks shovelling walks. _But_ when it’s been around for a freakin’ week and a half, like it has here, you get pretty sick of it. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/19 "2005-12-20T13:40:49Z")
When you’re a kid, adults are foreign creatures and you can’t image you’ll ever be one. When you’re an adult, kids are foreign creatures and you can’t image you ever were one. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/20 "2005-12-20T13:56:34Z")
When you’re a kid, you know that being a kid sucks, and you can’t wait to grow up. When you’re an adult, you know that childhood was the best part of life, and you wish you could go back. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309.md?page=2)