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Jo Firey - 16 Jul 2006 15:49 GMT
25 SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP
 or grown old!

1.  Your houseplants are alive, and you can't smoke any of them.
2.  Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.
3.  You keep more food than beer in the fr idge.
4.  6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.
 5.  You hear your favorite song in an elevator.
 6.  You watch the Weather Channel.
 7.  Your friends marry and divorce instead of "hook up" and "break up."
 8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 14.
 9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as "dressed up."
 10. You're the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door
won't turn down the stereo.
 11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you
12.  You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.
 13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.
 14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald's leftovers.
 15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.
 16. You take naps.
 17. Dinner and a movie is the whole date instead of the beginning of one.
 18. Eating a basket of chicken wings at 3 AM would severely upset, rather
than settle, your stomach.
 19. You go to the drug store for ibuprofen and antacid, not condoms and
pregnancy tests.
 20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good sh.t."
 21. You actually eat breakfast food at breakfast time.
 22. "I just can't drink the way I used to" replaces "I'm never going to
drink that much again."
 23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
 24. You drink at home to save money before going to a bar.
 25. When you find out your friend is pregnant you congratulate them
instead of asking "Oh sh.t, what the hell happened?"
 Bonus:
26.  You read this entire list looking desperately for one sign that
doesn't apply to you and can't find one to save your sorry old a.s.
 Then you forward it to a bunch of old friends 'cause you know they'll
enjoy it too ...and now you know why I am forwarding this to you!
sriddles@aol.com - 16 Jul 2006 15:54 GMT
> 25 SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP
>   or grown old!
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>   Then you forward it to a bunch of old friends 'cause you know they'll
> enjoy it too ...and now you know why I am forwarding this to you!

Funny! I had to look closely but I did find two that don't applyu! #23
& #24!
glsummer@neptunelink.com - 16 Jul 2006 17:39 GMT
>> 25 SIGNS YOU HAVE GROWN UP
>>   or grown old!
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>Funny! I had to look closely but I did find two that don't applyu! #23
>& #24!

Hey -- same for me!  :-)  But all the rest is pretty much right on
target.  Moan, sigh, moan -- I'm getting OLD!!!! ;-)

Ginger-lyn

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jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt@sonic.net - 16 Jul 2006 23:02 GMT
> 2.  Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.

I don't even sleep *alone* in a twin bed.

> 4.  6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.

Until recently, 6AM *was* when I went to bed. I'm naturally nocturnal.
But now I have a pesky job that makes me get up in the actual morning!

>   7.  Your friends marry and divorce instead of "hook up" and "break up."

They didn't even say "hook up" when I was young...

>   10. You're the one calling the police because those %&@# kids next door
> won't turn down the stereo.

I have to admit that I did that once when I was pretty young. The guy
upstairs turned on the disco really loud - with a pounding bass and drums -
and then went *out*. Oh, btw, this was at 2 AM. He had a night job, and
would come home in the middle of the night to start partying. I had a
job that required me to get up at 7AM.

>   15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.

Yep. This happens at least once a week.

>   20. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer "pretty good sh.t."

Another admission: I buy "Two-Buck Chuck", the $2 wine at Trader Joe's.
And it's really not that bad. :)

>   23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.

Ha! :)

Joyce
Jo Firey - 17 Jul 2006 01:03 GMT
> >   23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
>
> Ha! :)

I didn't spend 90% of my computer time for real work when I was doing real
work including a lot of PITA data entry.  Unless you count the time spent
downloading tax stuff back in the early days of the modem and online
services.  Even then I either had a second computer going or was reading or
doing something else.  Used to irk Charlie when I'd get two computers online
and be messing with my laptop at three AM.  I'd literally forget to go to
bed, and he had to be careful not to trip over phone cords if he got up at
night.

I'm quite sure more than 10% of my computer time has been "personal" since
the first computer game was invented.

Jo
Yowie - 17 Jul 2006 04:50 GMT
> > >   23. 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.
> >
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> I'm quite sure more than 10% of my computer time has been "personal" since
> the first computer game was invented.

And then came Bubbels, and my work : personal ratio went *way* down!

Yowie
 
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