You know you’re getting old if…
- At 9 p.m. you’re getting ready for bed, not getting ready to go out.
- Anti-aging skin care products become really important in your life.
- You choose your cereal based on fiber content and not because it has a cool toy inside.
- You actually like eating your vegetables.
- College students look really young to you.
- You sensibly stop drinking after two beers instead of when the bar closes.
- You start sentences with, “When I was a kid…”
- You think the driving age should be raised because 16 year-olds are too immature to handle driving.
- You read books to enrich your life, not because they’re required for your class.
- You get out of bed before noon.
- You do your laundry in a timely manner, not when you have nothing clean to wear.
- You make your bed every day because you want to, not because you have to.
You know you’re still young if…
- You buy a McDonald’s Happy Meal just for the toy.
- You go back to college and buy “school shoes” because you can.
- You’re more excited about what’s in your Christmas stocking rather than under the tree.
- You still dream about what you’ll be when you grow up.
- You sometimes eat cereal for dinner and think it’s a great meal.
- Flowers and cards are nice, but you really want a present you can tear into.
- You look at people your age and think they’re old.
- You haven’t planned for retirement because you’re not old enough yet.
- Laying in bed all day reading trashy magazines sounds like fun.
- You sometimes buy new underwear so you don’t have to do laundry.
- You watch cartoons on Adult Swim and laugh hysterically at them.
- You rent movies just because they’re funny, not because they have a message.
- You still eat dessert after dinner.
- You sometimes go an entire day without consuming a fruit or vegetable.
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Its 8:46pm…I’m putting on my pajamas and climbing into bed with a trashy magazine. Am I old, or young?
August 18th, 2006
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