# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**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, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/21 "2005-12-20T14:16:58Z")
When you’re a kid nerds are laughed at. When you’re a grown up, nerds (like Bill Gates & Steven Spielberg) are envied. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/22 "2005-12-20T14:21:39Z")
When your a kid the music is never loud enough. When your an adult, the music is always too loud. When you are a kid, you take short cuts across other peoples lawns. When you are an adult, you become a lawn nazi. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/23 "2005-12-20T14:23:29Z")
When you are a kid your parents tell you " The nerdy kids are the ones worth knowing…" When you are an adult, its the nerdy kids that are running the world. When you are a kid, adults are just freaking odd and crazy. When you are an adult, every adult you know needs to be medicated in some way, shape or form. ---
**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, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/24 "2005-12-20T14:29:17Z")
When you’re an adult, you’re always saying “When I was a kid” and “Kids today” when you’re a kid, you hear “When I was a kid” and “Kids today” so much you vow you’ll never say them when you’re an adult. Then one day you say them, and you realize you are an adult. ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/25 "2005-12-20T18:10:51Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > When you’re a kid, cooking is fun, when you’re an adult, it’s a chore. Oddly enough, I had kind of the opposite experience. I didn’t really cook much as a kid and, although I sometimes enjoyed it, it often felt like a chore. Once I was an adult I found that I really liked cooking. Even so, I do find it a chore when I’m only cooking for myself. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/26 "2005-12-20T18:45:37Z")
When you’re an adult, you like foods with colors found in nature. When you’re a kid… Not so much. ---
**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, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309/27 "2005-12-20T19:03:37Z")
When you’re a kid, you don’t know how to blow up a pool toy, and you’re too lazy and don’t have the attention span to learn how. When you’re an adult, you get kind of tired of blowing up the damn pool toys, but at least it gives you something to do besides flailing around the pool looking like a fat dork. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-kid-when-youre-an-adult/336309.md?page=1)