It's so great being a grown-up
While getting dinner together tonight, I opened up the freezer to find the half-gallon container of cookie dough ice cream left over from my birthday on the 16th. I took the container out, grabbed a spoon, and began eating the ice cream right from the carton. Kat gently chided me for this, since dinner was almost ready, but it got us thinking about a television ad that was on about a year or so ago.
I believe it was for life insurance or something else mind-numbingly boring, but it featured people who appeared to be roughly in their 30s, doing things that their parents would never approve of. The upshot was, "you're an adult now, so you make your own decisions." One dude was standing with his front door open on a summer day, and tells the camera, "I'm standing with the front door open and the air conditioning on!" Someone else says, "I left the house and left every single light on!"
Like many things televised, this got me thinking.
What are the advantages of being a grown-up?
Wait, let me rephrase that: what are the advantages of being a grown-up without little imitation machines following you around to copy your bad habits?
So, in recognition of the fact that I may very well fall into the category of Responsible Father Who Needs to Set a Good Example for His Kids before '04 is out, I present my list of things that I find so bloody cool about being grown up:
- I can stay up as late as I want (although I usually don't - late nights really started taking it out of me after about 30 or so)
- Who needs a glass for milk when it's so easy to drink from the jug?
- No one telling me to turn my guitar down (unless it's my wife, who isn't so much concerned about the noise as about my hearing, ASL interpreter that she is)
- The aforementioned eating ice cream straight from the carton
- No one restricting the number of Diet Pepsis I can drink a day
- What's a clothes hamper?
- and what exactly does it mean to "make" a bed?
I can't think of any more right now...anybody have any to add?
posted by scooter @ 10:05 PM
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Here are few of my favorites.
Having Doritios and a Mountain Dew for dinner.
Not having to worry about explaining the lyrical content of music I listen to.
Taking a 'sick' day when the only thing I'm sick of is work.
Having political views that are truly mine and not inherited from my parents.
P.S. By the way Scott, I still drink my milk from the carton. Guests never ask for milk at our place.
(1) No curfews - on weekends or weeknights. Like you, the only restrictions I have are the ones I set on myself.
(2) Being the ones to pick where you want to go: which movie, which restaurant, which exotic travel destination.
(3) Not buying, fixing, and/or eating vegetables that I have detested since conception.
Being a parent of three...
A model citizen...
And an example to society...
I do all that I was taught by my parents...
Actually I do more...
My parents told me I could Threes Company when I was kid... I now choose not to see Rated R movies, and EXTREMELY Selective on my PG-13 viewing as well
My parents told me we could swim under the cover of the pool... I now make sure the pool is completly uncovered and clorinated properly before entering.
My parents never put suncreen on me... I now lather up before I leather up...
My parents didn't seem to mind alchool assumption even thought they really didn't... I do not desire to drink alchool.
My parents did not make me eat vegitables... I like to eat as much vegitables as I can.
My parents let me get the soda (non-diet) every meal and even breakfast... I now drink water, an occasional diet soda twice a week at dinners.
My parents said one should never run in the front yard naked... Now I frequently... ahhh nevermind...
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