When did you realize that you had grown up?

[Cooler]

I realize that I had grown up when I walk into a store with my father. A clerk ask if i am finding everying i needed when i was waiting on father to pic out a new TV. I was 19 at the time. However i still get IDed all the time for beer even though im 26.

 

[bignateyk]

When I started becoming obsessed with my retirement accounts. (im 23)

 

[us3rnotfound]

Originally posted by: Cooler
I realize that I had grown up when I walk into a store with my father. A clerk ask if i am finding everying i needed when i was waiting on father to pic out a new TV. I was 19 at the time. However i still get IDed all the time for beer even though im 26.

Woman clerk? pics?

 

[Nerva]

i am soon to be 23. at my current job, i started cc'ing people on my team for all emails that go out to cover my own ass. that's when i realized relations between people in the real world are far more complicated and duplicitous than in college. pure friendships will be very hard to come about or not marred by some form of self interest.

 

[skace]

When my fvcking hair started retreating from the front lines.

 

[BKLounger]

It could be one of a couple things. It was more of a series of events. The first one was when i moved in with my girlfriend and was suddenly more concerned about paying off my debts and saving for a ring instead of making sure I had teh newest Ati video card in my rig. The second one kinda hit me on christmas eve I was at the gf's aunt's house with a 3 year old in one arm and a crying 3 month old in the other arm. One of the guys look over and says "just think you'll have your own soon". That one kinda hit me hard i needed a cigarette after that one.

 

[Abe Froman]

When I started falling sleep while watching Matlock.

 

[TXHokie]

I'm fighting it all the way to the end but will probably give in when I receive my senior citizen discount card.

 

[dfuze]

When I joined in a conversation at work about grass and the weather... :Q

 

[joecool]

when i moved 1000 miles away from home, and shortly thereafter bought my first house for $130k - yikes!

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: 3cho
i am soon to be 23. at my current job, i started cc'ing people on my team for all emails that go out to cover my own ass. that's when i realized relations between people in the real world are far more complicated and duplicitous than in college. pure friendships will be very hard to come about or not marred by some form of self interest.

I like that one. I have a couple of standard ccs depending on the client and type of project, but it's ALL in the name of covering my behind.

 

[tcsenter]

I would say three things culminated my realization that I had grown up:

Getting together with a few friends I once believed were the shiznit and discovering they were morons. Selfish, over-indulgent, narrow-minded, ethically challenged. They hadn't changed, which means I must have been exactly like they were at one time in order to think they were cool. Unfortunately, they all have children and are either lousy fathers, or decent fathers but bad examples of what men are or should be like in general (as spouses, partners, or members of the community).

Losing one's health and independence has a way of smacking one into the real world where life happens, having to accept and make the best of whatever hand is dealt them, letting go of some things they once envisioned for themselves and changing one's notions about what is [or is not] important.

My dad passing away after watching him decline in a way that made him want to go with what little dignity he had left, and not being able to do a damn thing about it.

 

[dwell]

Realizing that you were a teenager, some-teen years ago

 

[BUTCH1]

1976= Killer weed. 2006=Weed killer

 

[clamum]

I haven't really realized it yet (I just turned 24 last month). I suppose it'll sink in more now that I'll have a new job in a couple weeks. To be honest I still feel like I'm 18.