When did you first feel like an adult?

[mykpart]

For me, it was when I bought a car with my own earnings. I was 19. How about you?

[neweurope]

1. When I bought the wreath for the funeral of my dearest co-worker.

I was 45 ;)

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[NMMNG]

2. I'm still waiting to feel like an adult

[LaurenG]

11. Me too

:bounce:

[miss_american_pie]

3. August -- family vacation

"Vacation" takes on an entirely new meaning when you're the mom.

[DS1]

4. When I was behind one of two sports cars at a stop light

while sitting in my own sports car, and they both started revving their engines and raced off and I thought to myself

"Idiots"


because I could see the cop car peeking out from behind a parking lot about 2 blocks up the road. :evilgrin:

[gollygee]

5. The first time I noticed a cute guy and realized he was too young for

for me

Which was sometime in my mid-20s I think.

[RevCheesehead]

6. years ago, my mom fell and broke her ankle.

I was home from school, sick with a cold, and mom was rushing to get some laundry done and run out the door. She fell down the basement stairs, and I heard her crying out. I called 911, then my dad, and waited for the ambulance. I think I was 16 at the time.

[LynneSin]

7. I'm still waiting

and I was born back in the 60s

[azmouse]

8. The only time I feel like an adult is when I'm around teenagers.

That's when I realize that the only senior prom around the corner is an Over 55 dance... BTW, I'm only 44 so I have a ways to go before that happens!!

[hyphenate]

9. I didn't know I was supposed to.

feel like an adult, that is.

[Elidor]

10. Fondling mammaries at 15

Thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

[GalleryGod]

17. I vividly recall that moment also...13 for Moi!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. I think it was my first Christmas after having gotten married.....

And I realized that there were no parents around to finish putting the gifts under the tree!

I had to do it.......It actually came as a shock to me!

:wow:

[kwassa]

13. Losing my virginity at 16

out in the woods at summer church camp.

[GalleryGod]

14. When they told me to go to the local Draft Board

Lotsa effin' fun...

[1gobluedem]

15. First time I used the drive-through window at the bank

I always went with my mother; I felt really grown up driving through and doing my own banking.

[no name no slogan]

16. Getting married and buying a house

I got married (for the first time) the day after my 27th birthday, and bought a house a few months later. It was my first "legal" long-term committment to a person AND a place to spend the rest of my life.

The marriage ended nine years later, and we sold the house. So maybe that means I'm no longer an adult at age 36?

[AlCzervik]

18. when i was 17 and my mother died, i made the arrangements.

there was no going back after that. that was also the worst day of my life.

[johnnie]

19. For me

It was the first time I saw a Playboy centerfold playmate that was older than I was.

[Deep13]

20. Guess I never felt like a child.

Carefree, no worries or responsibility. Never had that.

[Misunderestimator]

22. I was going to say something similar.

That about covers it.

[tigereye]

21. I think I really didn't feel like one

until I had to take my baby home from the hospital. That's serious adulthood, there.

not living alone, not work per se, not marriage. Parenthood.

[zanne]

23. I'll let you know as soon as it happens. nt

[Skittles]

24. when I was 14

my dad was hospitalized for a year and my mum couldn't handle all the kids so I lived with my alcoholic aunt and took care of her two babies

[slide to the left]

25. When I turned 20

and started making my bed. I don't make the bed anymore.

[MissHoneychurch]

26. When I got my first paycheck

and started to pay for everything myself.

[Giant Robot]

27. When my sainted father passed away

I felt alone and adult all at the same time. God how I hated the business of death, handling affairs, funerals, etc. When all I wanted to do was cry while a fetal position.

[hunter]

28. Deciding I was human was a good start.

I'm not sure how adult I am yet.

I do remember one of my first "wow" moments from college. I had four hours between an afternoon class and an evening lab, and instead of going to the library, the computer lab, or any of my usual haunts, a wonderful young woman and I went deep into the bushes behind a school parking lot and drank beer. She was wearing shorts, sandals and a tube top. We didn't do anything but talk and drink, but it was fun, and in my vast inexperience, very adult.

That evening was the first time I ever went to class drunk.

[Left Is Write]

29. I felt pretty good buying the first car I ever paid for by myself...

I actually bought my first first car - a '75 Buick Century - myself, but my boyfriend had to "help" me get the $600 loan. I was almost 21.

At 22, I bought my first brand new car. I had saved for the down payment and got the financing myself and paid it off myself. Yeah, that felt like being a grown up!

The first time I felt really grown up, though, was in my first apartment when I was 18 and 19. I had roommates that were irresponsible in the extreme. I refused to go along with them. I eventually got an apartment by myself later that year. That felt like being a grown up too.

I've had many other defining moments of adulthood, but those are probably the earliest.