# Your "I'm a grown-up now" moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692 "2012-12-21T01:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [January 4, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/101 "2013-01-04T15:46:32Z")
Walking into a fast food restaurant and a group of high school age kids were doing goofy things to make each other laugh, I walked by and, shaking my head, muttered “teenagers”. The first one though was when my child came to me with a problem and fully expected me to fix it. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/102 "2013-01-04T17:40:17Z")
I get excited over appliances and such too. I also now wince, badly, when I see a foot of snow outside. I need to dig that shit up. If not today, then tomorrow - it won’t melt by the time I have to go to work. Two of my uncles and my mom both died in the last three years. I’ve been thinking a LOT about this. It really won’t be much longer until that generation is gone…I’m 35 now, and time is a ticking. I wonder how long it will be until it’s just my generation? Flying never did it to me because I flew alone at seven, ten, and fifteen, overseas the last two times. Of all things, opening a safety deposit box at the bank really struck me as a moment of adulthood. That responsibility of needing a place to store birth certificates, naturalization certificates, gold from our grandparents, etc., really hit home. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/103 "2013-01-04T18:32:40Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > … these days it’s been really weird for me to try to get used to saying “husband”, as in “my husband”. Husbands are something other people have! They require, like, a lot of maintenance and it’s hard to get parts for them! > [@LavenderBlue](#): > > On my wedding day when my MIL called Mrs. LavenderBlue. I looked at her and thought oh shit that’s my MIL not me oh wait . . . :smack: Oh, my, yes. I was utterly weirded out the first time I was called “Mrs. Shoe” at work. I was like, “Who? Oh, you mean me?” > [@MsRobyn](#): > > It really hit me when I started _answering_ to Mrs. Doors. I’m not there yet. Not sure if I ever will be. Being together for nearly a decade before getting hitched in the 1st place might be part of it, I guess. Wives are things that other women are, I always thought. (Sweet shedding cats, we’ve been together thirteen years this upcoming summer! :eek:) ---
**Author:** ![Teacake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Teacake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teacake)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/104 "2013-01-04T21:49:50Z")
I’ve just spent all my money. I can’t decide whether I’m a grown up for buying a new car (instead of an old banger, which is what I’ve always driven) or not a grown up because it took all my money to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/105 "2013-01-04T21:54:56Z")
I’ve had a lot of them. I guess I keep forgetting I’m a grown up :D: - At age 16, signing the authorization forms for a procedure for \* my son \*. I hadn’t signed any official documents for MYSELF at that point because I was a minor child. But now, I was a mother, and therefore a grown up. - Realizing that my siblings and cousins and I are one uncle away from being the oldest generation in our family. - I have grandchildren in high school. One of them is older than I was when his father was born. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/106 "2013-01-05T10:35:07Z")
For the second time in as many months upon espying my One Direction accoutrements: “Are those your kids?” ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/107 "2013-01-05T15:16:38Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > For the second time in as many months upon espying my One Direction accoutrements: “Are those your kids?” Zing! ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/108 "2013-01-05T16:41:59Z")
I like to waste a few bucks a month on scratch tickets. The other month I won 100 dollars, and my first thought was “I can make an extra payment on my student loans!” ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/109 "2013-01-05T18:28:44Z")
Going to the bank to deposit my paycheques. I mean, the bank is where mom goes! To do grown-up stuff! While I wait in the car with a comic book! Getting into my first car accident, and being really shaken up, and my parents not immediately coming to see me because they lived a couple hours away. But you’re my mommy! You’re supposed to comfort me! Company I work for now has a financial advisor as a perk to employees - he comes to discuss with us options like making a contribution to an RRSP that employer will match. But-but-but I don’t know! Mom and Dad always told me what to do with my money! I don’t know if I want to do this! ---
**Author:** ![Sevencl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sevencl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevencl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/110 "2013-01-05T18:48:39Z")
Whenever I try to go back and read a book I loved as a child, like Howl’s Moving Castle, and I find the prose too simplistic to be engaging. I feel sad whenever I think about it, yet I keep trying. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/111 "2013-01-05T19:20:41Z")
> [@Sevencl](#): > > Whenever I try to go back and read a book I loved as a child, I find the prose too engaging. I feel sad yet I keep trying. That’s the spirit! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sevencl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sevencl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevencl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/112 "2013-01-05T19:23:34Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > That’s the spirit! 🙂 huh? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/113 "2013-01-05T20:20:08Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Two of my uncles and my mom both died in the last three years. I’ve been thinking a LOT about this. It really won’t be much longer until that generation is gone…I’m 35 now, and time is a ticking. I wonder how long it will be until it’s just my generation I’m 54, my gf is 53. All of our parents, aunts, uncles are dead or dying. Many of our friends are dealing with serious health issues. C’est La Vie I guess. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/114 "2013-01-05T23:41:27Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Zing! The first time I was mortified…the second I was flattered (and baffled) people thought I could create offspring that good-looking. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/115 "2013-01-06T00:36:15Z")
> [@Sevencl](#): > > huh? Keep trying, you’ll get it. ---
**Author:** ![Sevencl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sevencl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevencl)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/116 "2013-01-06T00:40:24Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Keep trying, you’ll get it. No, I know what you meant. My “huh?” was more like a “Huh? Does he think he’s clever by taking some words out to make me say something else?”. I don’t get the point of it. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/117 "2013-01-06T00:43:31Z")
> [@Sevencl](#): > > No, I know what you meant. My “huh?” was more like a “Huh? Does he think he’s clever by taking some words out to make me say something else?” Oh, I didn’t realize your “huh” was saying all that. Yes, my post was silly I admit that. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/118 "2013-01-06T01:25:29Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Oh, I didn’t realize your “huh” was saying all that. Yes, my post was silly I admit that. Well _I_ appreciated it. Now you two get a room. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/119 "2013-01-06T01:59:53Z")
> [@janis\_and\_c0](#): > > The time before last when I talked to my nephew & realized his voice has changed.. This deep foghorn goes “Hi, Aunt Sissy!” Where did my baby go?! Oh, god yes. I have a fourteen year old cousin. The other day when I called home, and he picked up, I swear for a minute I thought I was talking to his father, my uncle. But then I remembered that my uncle passed away a few years ago. It’s crazy to me how his son could bring back his memory in an instant. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2013, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692/120 "2013-01-06T04:45:39Z")
> [@Sevencl](#): > > Whenever I try to go back and read a book I loved as a child, like Howl’s Moving Castle, and I find the prose too simplistic to be engaging. I feel sad whenever I think about it, yet I keep trying. Really? I find a lot of sly fun in Diana Wynne Jones. Of course, I’m a public librarian and try to stay up with YA lit (and can enjoy the stuff I liked again without shame, because professional) and a lot is bad now, but the “classics” (even at the time young classics) hold up, and I’d consider her some of that. Yeah, it’s for a younger audience, but I don’t feel like it’s too dumb for me - a nod and a wink, rather. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-im-a-grown-up-now-moments/644692.md?page=7)