To find this weird at 38?!

[Toddlerteaplease]

I'm out with my parents and want an ice cream. It feels really weird that I can have one if I want one. And they can't say no. Anyone else feel
Like this?

😄 that reminds me of when I was 18 and my mum tried to tell me off for not parking properly and told me to move my car. I just shrugged my shoulders and walked off.

In love the fact I can have whatever I want for dinner or not have dinner if I don’t want.

Not had that exact thing. But I remember visiting national trust/museums etc and realising I could look in the shop first if I wanted to. The sense of liberation with a tinge of naughtiness was amazing!

(Now I’ve got young kids of my own and I totally do the shop at the end thing too! I hope they’ll relish going in the shop first when they’re older too )

Haha the first time I was on holiday alone I had ice cream for lunch one day just because I wanted it! Considered having some "proper" food first then realised I'd just have less room for ice cream!
Felt really sick after...

It's weird that you think it's weird.

Are adults not allowed ice cream?

When you get a husband he’ll just tell you off for eating ice cream and not parking properly instead 🤷‍♀️

It is weird at 38 yes. Have you not bought yourself things while out with your parents in the last 20 years of being an adult?

When you get a husband he’ll just tell you off for eating ice cream and not parking properly instead

Sounds like you need a new husband...

I still get those "oh yeah I'm an adult I can do that if I want" moments at 28

I try to remember how things were when I was a kid as well for the benefits of my own kids. For example I always remember wanting to rush straight downstairs on Christmas morning to open my presents but my parents always wanted to have a little lie in and potter around getting dressed before we could go down. Then we'd have to wait for them to make themselves a coffee etc before we could actually open the presents in front of us. I hated that wait so much. So on Christmas morning I get straight up and go down with them and get straight into opening presents. DH has tried to do it my parents way a couple of times but I told him I wasn't going to make the DC's wait for him so he got up 😂

@PrincessSarene

Not had that exact thing. But I remember visiting national trust/museums etc and realising I could look in the shop first if I wanted to. The sense of liberation with a tinge of naughtiness was amazing!

(Now I’ve got young kids of my own and I totally do the shop at the end thing too! I hope they’ll relish going in the shop first when they’re older too )

This is exactly my experience too.

I purposely do it when having a day trip with my mum and dad. it infuriates them hugely !

I'm a grown up but always ask my parents when I'm with them

My mum would always say " when I've finished my coffee" and it took ages. Now she drinks her coffee in 5 seconds and I take ages. Though now I work with children I absolutely get why she did that!!

I was tempted to have a screwball the other day. Just because I could. I wasn't allowed them as a kid as they had chewing gum in.

At my parents recently I was having a can of Coke and my mum insisted I have it from a glass incase I cut my lip. I refused she wasn’t happy.

When I was 27 I was staying at my parents' house and I met a school friend for a bottle of wine. I bought chewing gum on the way home to disguise the smell

My father was babysitting my two young children once and I came down in a short skirt. He said ‘you’re not going out in that.’
My dh and I just laughed.

I had pudding before dinner the other day and it was marvellous.

Now I'm grown up my dad always buys me an ice cream. Never, ever as a child was I allowed an ice cream as we "had snacks at home"

Ha yes! I have just taken my dad shopping and he commented I had bought lots of sweets, I just smiled and added another pack

I get you op. I remember shopping in Sainsbury’s with Dh not long after we got married, it was Christmas. I picked up a giant toblerone and then put it back...DH said ‘you can get it if you want’...and I thought yes, yes I can. I loved being newly married and buying shit in the supermarket that I couldn’t have when I was a kid/student.

i had pasta for breakfast the other day. no one to tell me off, or tell me it's not a proper breakfast. being an adult is great.

I’m sitting here with no trousers on!

My moment was when I suddenly realised that I could buy brown sauce if I wanted to. We didn’t have it at home when I was growing up: it was a slightly exotic thrill that you got in cafes and restaurants. And then it occurred to me that I could have my own bottle at home.

I was in my early thirties.

My DM used to scrape carrots rather than peel them and I hated doing it. It was an epiphany to me when I was married and had my own kitchen that I could prepare veg any way I wanted!

My huge one is stopping on a car journey for a wee. My parents used to make me hold it in for hours and I'd dread long journeys. I love being able to stop when I need to go- took me years to stop feeling guilty when driving with my husband and asking him to stop at the services. Was lovely when I genuinely realised he didn't give a shit if we stopped for a wee.