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The things which make you realise you are a grown-up
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In my book it’s not a good thing to feel like you are a grown-up all the time… in fact I rarely feel like a grown-up.
I can perform most household chores without it making me feel like a grown-up. There are some tasks, just a few, which make me feel like I shouldn’t have to do that… it should be someone grown-up … and then I realise that would be me then.
For me, one of those tasks is……. clearing the outside drains!
I can’t really explain why it is, but it’s one of those jobs where all of a sudden I become very much aware that I am meant to be a responsible grown-up… and I don’t like that feeling.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When your arse is too big to wedge into the swings in the playground 
When you wedge tight on the helter skelter
When the roundabout tilts and stops
Or does that just mean we're getting fatter? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i dont think i have ever cleaned ut drains. is it a job you are supposed to do regularly??"
Every now and again, i have to clear the one outside the kitchen but sometimes i just buy some stuff and pour it down the sink, smells lovely  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Two weeks ago I crawled along my roof space up in the loft to put towels and buckets under a leak.
I hate the drains. Getting my hands down n lifting sludge.
Resetting the lecky when it blows.
Opening up the sewage pipes and sluicing.
Aranging funerals. 
Paying every fuggin goddam bill AND subsidising 'adult' children.
Not responding to wanky messages on here.
Smiling through it all. |
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"When your arse is too big to wedge into the swings in the playground
When you wedge tight on the helter skelter
When the roundabout tilts and stops
Or does that just mean we're getting fatter? "
i was a grown up at 15 then |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When the horny bitch at Chams dragged me into a room and said "I need a shag and I want a man to do it" so a quick look round, point my own finger in my own chest and say "Who? me?"
'kin 'ell I've pulled  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"i dont think i have ever cleaned ut drains. is it a job you are supposed to do regularly??
Every now and again, i have to clear the one outside the kitchen but sometimes i just buy some stuff and pour it down the sink, smells lovely "
When I was about 7 I put my hand down the one outside the kitchen to retrieve a superball. I cut my finger on something down there and now have a genuine phobia of drains. the thought of putting my hand in own makes me heave.
so i don't clean 'em |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When you get your mortgage statement through each year and you realise how much there is left to pay.
When you get the letter from British Gas saying the prices are going up and you remember no one else is funding it.
When the taxman tells you your employer buggered up your tax 3 years ago so now you owe him lots of money.
(at this rate the Hound will have to start earning her keep) |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I now feel like a grown up because im a parent, she depends on me for everything, paying bills, council tax, and doing food shopping etc
Before my daughter came into my life i used to think you were an adult if you drank tea or coffee - something which i still dont do haha |
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By *ruitWoman
over a year ago
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Being a single parent most of the time makes me feel grown uo.
Having to sort out problems with emotional bits with the kids makes me feel adult.
When it all goes wrong and have nowhere to turn to.aside from advice from family makes.me feel very grown up.
Yes.when being.on a swing makes me feel sick or my botty doesnt fit
when it starts to get dark and i want to be home with the door locked in my pjs that makes me feel an adult lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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To have a mortgage, and bills such as utilities, phones, council tax etc. to pay each month! The salary stays in the bank account for minutes before bills are taken out of the account! 
Ooo, and the first time I had to open up a shop as I was "officially" in change due to my profession. I was 23, and a number of my colleagues were twice my age and had been working for a lot longer than me! |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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"To have a mortgage, and bills such as utilities, phones, council tax etc. to pay each month! The salary stays in the bank account for minutes before bills are taken out of the account!
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this.... it is offically the best and most depressing day of the month.... and then you can see what you get to live on for the rest of the month... |
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By *hocotreacleWoman
over a year ago
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When I am out with my single friends and they are talking shoes, holidays and constant nights out and I'm thinking about the pile of dishes, the ironing, the 100th cotume I have to buy for my daughters because thier school suddenly decided they are having a victorian day, and whether I paid the window cleaner and milkman this month.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"To have a mortgage, and bills such as utilities, phones, council tax etc. to pay each month! The salary stays in the bank account for minutes before bills are taken out of the account!
this.... it is offically the best and most depressing day of the month.... and then you can see what you get to live on for the rest of the month..."
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I move a certain amount into a different account, so that I can get hold of the money towards the end of the month, even if the main account has zilch in it.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I know I'm a grown up when I say something to my adult kids and realise that I soundeded just like my own mother!!"
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And to be a glam granny soon, right? 
... runs and hides! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I know I'm a grown up when I say something to my adult kids and realise that I soundeded just like my own mother!!
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And to be a glam granny soon, right?
... runs and hides! "
Noooooo!! Oh Maddy you kept that quiet |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I know I'm a grown up when I say something to my adult kids and realise that I soundeded just like my own mother!!
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And to be a glam granny soon, right?
... runs and hides!
Noooooo!! Oh Maddy you kept that quiet "
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Not THAT quiet, perhaps you were not about when she screamed her head off when she was first informed about it a while back! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I know I'm a grown up when I say something to my adult kids and realise that I soundeded just like my own mother!!
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And to be a glam granny soon, right?
... runs and hides!
Noooooo!! Oh Maddy you kept that quiet
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Not THAT quiet, perhaps you were not about when she screamed her head off when she was first informed about it a while back! "
Oh yeah I missed that! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Power washing my drive always gives me a sense of achievement.
and chasing the horrible neighbours cat for peeing on my roses with said power wash gun is childlike"
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Playing with a water pistol to soak the pets is childlike! 
Mine run away as soon as they see me with it nowadays! Smart pets I have! |
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By *adchickCouple
over a year ago
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"I know I'm a grown up when I say something to my adult kids and realise that I soundeded just like my own mother!!
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And to be a glam granny soon, right?
... runs and hides!
Noooooo!! Oh Maddy you kept that quiet
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Not THAT quiet, perhaps you were not about when she screamed her head off when she was first informed about it a while back!
Oh yeah I missed that! "
Thanks for the reminder people!!!!
Pregnant daughter is with us at the moment as she isn't well and mum is having to do everything for her!
Jason's excited though. It's a boy and she's going to call it the name he came up with.
Me......... I just feel bloody old
**Off to sulk** |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Thanks for the reminder people!!!!
Pregnant daughter is with us at the moment as she isn't well and mum is having to do everything for her!
Jason's excited though. It's a boy and she's going to call it the name he came up with.
Me......... I just feel bloody old
**Off to sulk** "
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Hope she gets better soon!
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I feel more like a child than i did when i was a child. Ive gone backwards. I grew up very quickly and now i have every one to do stuff for me and im always getting told off by my son. SOmetimes i cant believe its me thats got a grown up son and home and all the things that "adults" have |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Anyone else getting confused between Pearl and Chocotreacle......
I gotta stop looking at avatars n read names......
Thought pearl had a daughter for a mo .... |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Anyone else getting confused between Pearl and Chocotreacle......
I gotta stop looking at avatars n read names......
Thought pearl had a daughter for a mo ...."
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No, only a cat and a dog!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When I have to take my teenage son to the GUM clinic.. it reminds me that a) I am old enough to have a teenage son and b) He could make me a Nanna...
Both make me feel grown up which is bad as I refuse normally to grow up.. even my kids say I am a big kid..
Katie.x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Thinking before leaping in"
I'm 32, have children and responsibilities but i dont think i'll ever grow out of "Leaping in without thinking" I constantly carry a spade and have also suffered from foot in mouth all my life |
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"Thinking before leaping in
I'm 32, have children and responsibilities but i dont think i'll ever grow out of "Leaping in without thinking" I constantly carry a spade and have also suffered from foot in mouth all my life "
Lol never said I practiced what I preached |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Thinking before leaping in
I'm 32, have children and responsibilities but i dont think i'll ever grow out of "Leaping in without thinking" I constantly carry a spade and have also suffered from foot in mouth all my life
Lol never said I practiced what I preached "
I should give that a go hehe |
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