For me it’s cooking a proper meal. Even just the first bit when you’re frying some onion and garlic in some oil. Adult.
Related, eating whatever the fuck I want, whenever the fuck I want
#adulting
I emailed the council to complain about chopping down trees in my favourite park
That did it for me
Oooh yeah good one, I emailed a complaint to the council tax dept recently and threatened to contact my ward councillors, very strong #adulting there
Sex
Hanging pictures up and getting it right first try
I think I started learning to cook too young to associate it with adulthood
I think for me it’s anything like changing credit card or opening a savings account or that sort of boring shit.
when strangers refer to me as ‘‘the man’’ or ‘‘this gentleman’’ (lol)
Said this recently in another thread about how certain things would be a real rare treat as a kid but as an adult you realise you can just nip down the shops and spend a relatively negligible amount of money on a tube of pringles or a tin of custard or whatever.
Having to do stuff
Drinking wine in the afternoon
I’m always reporting broken street lights or bins or requesting a street clean cos broken glass or whatever.
You’re like a super adult
I’m not good at being an adult
Reject conventional trappings of what adulthood should “be”
But also
Is the most correct answer
But with a better drink
Walking into a pub and asking for a Guinness
Buying stuff with the money I managed to trick someone into paying me due to my superior fake it til you make it skills
Yeah. When I’m used as ‘the man’ by people telling their kids off I feel old. And used.
Pricks.