What’s something you thought was cool until you grew up?

I thought I’d have a cool car and a secret base by now. Instead, I just have a favorite burner on the stove and a back that makes a 'crunch' sound when I sneeze.

The audacity of every adult who told us to enjoy being a kid. They knew. They all knew.

Seriously. I'm struggling to remember to take my multivitamin- growing up into an "adult" has taught me that no one knows what they're doing. I'm in my early thirties.

Yeah i thought so

Yup, I always thought adulting is fun not until responsibilities came in

thought the same thing until i saw your comment

still waiting for that part to feel cool

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This

This. I thought burning cash was fun until reality hit. Bills, responsibilities and realizing your “fun money” disappears faster than you notice.

The worst part is you can pinpoint the exact purchase where it all went wrong. Mine was a $400 jacket I wore twice.

I'd amend to say brand named clothes that are meh or shit quality. There are some brand names out there that make quality clothing that lasts a long time and I'm here for that. Comfortable af and lasts forever? Count me in baby.

This!!! I think wearing brand names and Logos is sooooo tacky. You’re literally a billboard and there’s nothing interesting about your clothes except for the brand. This also includes designer.

Not gonna lie, I still love the odd cig after drinking or on a chill morning

really glad i was a bit of a contrarian back then and thought smoking is bad uncool when everyone started doing it

Someone told me when I was a teenager that if you quit by the time you’re 30, your body can fully heal from it. Fingers crossed.

Sleep went from punishment to reward and I didn't even notice when it happened.

I love sleep and I still love to game, I just wish I had time in the day to game and have enough sleep to function the next day. My body usually makes the choice of sleep for me

Strangely, in high school if I wasn’t asleep by 10pm I was worthless the next day. This is the late 1980s before internet and social media.

I'm 36 and I'm about to beat another boss at 3am and I couldn't agree more. Don't have to work until 4pm but have some weekly homework I keep telling myself I'll get done before work but it rarely happens and I hate myself for it. Then I end up doing my homework when I get home at 11pm and end up staying up until 4-5am anyways again every night. I hate it. My girlfriend hates it. It's hard to change.

Playing video games in general.  I'm so tired most of the time I just can't be bothered.  

When I was 15-16 I’d stay up all night playing the guitar once or twice a week. If you play a solid-bodied electric guitar unplugged you can hear what you’re playing fine but it’s very quiet. My bedroom was downstairs too so there was no way my parents or sister would be disturbed by it. I wouldn’t intend to stay up *all* night, I’d just keep playing and before I knew it it would be too late to bother going to sleep. When my alarm went off I’d put my dressing gown on and wander upstairs to have a shower rubbing my eyes and saying good morning to my Mum. I don’t remember school being too hard the day after and I passed my exams. 30 years later I can still play the guitar pretty well no matter how long I go without playing for. But if I get less than 7 hours sleep I’m bloody useless the next day… I still naturally gravitate towards that night owl behaviour but whatever I do instead of sleeping it’s just not worth it! I’m grateful to teenage me for being so diligent at practicing and still think it’s a pretty cool thing for a teenager to do.

I did this as a teen. Now I love sleep.

I‘m so old I don’t need video games to be tired and cranky.

I tried to fit in with all my classmates. So wearing "brand" clothes. Baggy Pants, "OG Gear" hoodies, Dickies pants etc. I've seen old photos recently...jfc I looked like a f****** clown. (I mean it was 25 years ago). After my Hiphop phase I started listening to metal. Only black clothes, so brands weren't a thing anymore lol

I was in high school when Columbine and 9-11 happened. Occupy Wall Street was not long after that. You gotta be Gen X or older to have ever thought the USA was cool.

...and watching Captain -donk- Kangaroo

I don’t live in a country where the military is glorified. Toy guns and soldiers are a rare sight. The rare times I’ve seen an army ad campaign in my country it’s focused on stuff like providing disaster and emergency aid. I only really understood “wow military cool badass” was a genuine thing in some places (esp USA) once I hit adulthood.

That was Lostprophets for me. That music got me through a lot in my late teens and early 20s. There were a few punk rock lullabies that were awesome. And then the lead singer, Ian Watkins, went to prison for r\*\*\*\*g an infant. It really messed me up. (I'm pleased to report that he was murdered by a fellow inmate late last year.)

"My naive dumb ass assumed that because he wrote a song called "Never Again" about how fucked up the Holocaust was that he would never do anything like that..." It sadly turns out that for some people, "never again" only means never again to their group, other groups of people getting genocided is absolutely fine.

Damn, homie, that’s wild. Glad you didn’t buy in

Isn't he Jewish? And pro Isreal? How is he a Nazi?

disturbed is such a shit band it's not even funny

When I first read this, I thought he autographed a bomb that has already been used and that’s messed up enough on its own. Looked it up and he autographed it prior to it being used???? wtf. wtf. wtf.

I don’t like shaving either. It’s so itchy.

Why did I think people did it for the taste???

LoL..you aren't doing alone time right

I'm about to experience that for the first time likely in about a month's time as my roommate is finalizing the process of buying a home for himself and his brother. I'll probably enjoy it at first just being able to do whatever I please without having to work around someone else's presence but I'm sure the loneliness and intrusive thoughts will start to creep in not too long after especially this year as so much of my social network has collapsed. It'll also suck because he's for the most part been a good roommate and I'll miss having someone to speak to in person semi-regularly If this had happened a year or so ago I'd be in a much better position to live alone mentally

Are you kidding? Living alone is the best! I'm currently naked at the computer, I made my breakfast naked. I hopped out of bed and strolled out to the kitchen. Good luck doing that living with someone else.

Yeah when you realise they're absolute debt traps if not handled with EXTREME caution, it makes you a lot less interested in getting one. I didn't get my first CC until I was 20 just for the sake of building credit score. Never paid late, I only buy using it for the Customer Protections it provides over Debit at this point.

yeah i used to love storms rolling in. now i cant sleep for the fear of roof flying off, downstairs flooding, trees falling through the front door. (all of which i’ve experienced)

Omg when I was a teen all I wanted was a boy friend. I was soooo insecure.

Same i thought war was cool

Huh!

why do you think kids shoot up schools so much

Ugh, get ready for a long one. Story time :D England here as well. My girlfriend has a penpal out in the US who we flew out to see last year over the 4th of July celebrations before she got shipped off to Army basic training. Had a great time and the folks (in Ohio at least) were lovely, but we had a huge issue with her job being vindictive for no reason other than, "we can, deal with it." Kroger, specifically. Not a career job, but still a job. First day of the trip, she was the one who came to pick us up from the airport. Easy 2hr drive. We're all 20, but the rental places wouldn't accept anyone under 25 so we COULDN'T drive over there lol. She'd put in that she was going to be doing a half-shift that day *six months in advance* because I booked our stuff in January and told her to tell her managers ASAP so they weren't getting screwed over. They approved and said yes, I thought that was sorted. (to compare it to my own arrangements, we get schedules quarterly and if you put Leave in prior to that 13-week schedule being approved by both you, the manager and a schedule rep, it CANNOT be denied as an internal policy without an insanely good reason. So we're commonly putting leave in crazy amounts of time in advance. I'm used to this, and I kept that mindset with her Kroger because I thought it would be at least appropriate if not appreciated) Cut to maybe two days before we fly out and they come to her, "yeah we need you in the whole day, no we don't care that you've got people travelling across an ocean relying on you to pick them up, we have others available but we want you in." In short, she said screw it and worked the approved half-shift. Left at lunch to come grab us. We were grateful and I told her to forward her managers my contact info if they wanted to moan, I'd set the record straight. Anyway, they also ended up calling her in on the 4th of July, *the morning of*, we were halfway through the parade through the town we were in and she's like "yeah, I'm going in from noon and I'll be finished by 6. Then we can do something." and because she'd unofficially ditched on our first day, despite having approval, she wanted to make up for it somewhat. We had an entire day planned. Safe to say I was on the verge of imploding and was about to storm down there. She practically forced her manager to ring *me* and I told the dude he was totally out of line, if he was hellbent on messing her around that *I'd* cover her wages and they could skip paying those days entirely if they didn't think she was being generous enough with her time for them. But we did go around with her family instead, who were understanding. They were also super supportive of us all during this. And had the evening as planned. She hadn't booked the entire ~10 days we were out there as leave, she had a few shifts scattered in and around days we weren't planning to do much. But they wanted more, and more, right up to calling on the morning of the biggest national holiday?! It's insane. Anyway, not only did we visit Kroger multiple times as patrons (I know I racked up a bill of at least $90 stocking up on groceries for the week and a half we were out there) but I was just...BAFFLED at the cheek to pull last minute changes and act like it wasn't a problem of their own doing. Funnily enough, the day after we left she got sacked from that job, they cited the first day that she pulled a half-shift to come grab us. I think it was part deliberate retaliation against us three, and because she was quitting in September for the Army anyway, but she cut her losses and was ultimately glad to be out of there. Now, I don't care for any arguments about how, "if that's in her contract, thEy CaN jUsT Do ThAt." Even if they can, it is BEYOND toxic, and infuriating to witness as an outsider. It is NOT normal, anyone who's gonna try and justify it to me; turn heel and don't bother. And on top of that, in the run up to Army basic they would schedule her shifts that DIRECTLY clashed with her Drills sessions, and that's *straight up illegal* under US law. I practically begged her to report it to her local Army office, but she didn't want the stress. We ended up having a fair chunk of spending money in cash left over before flying back, something like $800 worth between me and my gf. We gave her it just because we'd already budgeted as if it would all be spent, and she'd paid for a few of our expenses during the trip, so I played it off like we were covering it back... I am SO GLAD we did that, because that 800 bucks pretty much got her through from July to September without any financial issues, you know, considering she didn't have a bloody job in the interim. So yeah, the US, at least with regards to employment, sounds genuinely *hellish* and I'm so glad I don't have to deal with it. Our little experience was more than enough for me.

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The thrill is well and truly gone when 90% is bills and the rest is direct marketing.