Things you still do as an adult

[Wordsareimportant]

what do you do as an adult, that you shouldn’t really still do?

I (30F) still sick my thumb. 2 young kids and a decent job.

I don’t do it in the day, just at night. Didn’t really think anything of it until my daughter shoved my own thumb back in my mouth whilst she was in bed with us the other night.

I need the hall light on and bedroom door open to go to sleep. I'm still afraid of the dark.

I’m one of the people who can’t understand adults drinking squash - and if it makes you feel any better, I know it’s completely irrational! It makes zero difference to me what someone else drinks; no one is trying to make me drink it… yet I just can’t get my head around an adult going into the supermarket and picking up Ribena or Robinson’s barley water or similar. I can’t imagine anyone actually doing it.

I completely relate to many of the points on this thread, so it’s not like I have some ultra-rigid idea of how adults should behave. I just can’t relate to this.

Well to be fair I only buy the no added sugar stuff, because I have and want to keep all my own teeth still 🤣 but I think it stems from having it too young as a child. I get zero enjoyment from drinking water. None. Zero. Unless I’m really thirsty. Water to me is like a meal replacement bar. Just giving you enough to survive but with no satisfaction. Without squash I’d genuinely spend half my life dehydrated. The alternative is carbonated drinks all the time, or sugary fruit juice, so squash seems the lesser evil. And I just like it….

…But this is the very reason I, ironically, don’t give this drink aimed at children to my DC.

I put my foot out of the duvet to cool down and within seconds I pull it back in because obviously a ghost or a monster is going to touch it.

I used to work with a girl who used to do that , in case the monster injected her with something 😊

I twist my hair when I am tired, I drink squash , eat marmite on bread and when I have my nighttime cold drink for bed I wiggle my toes when I drink it through a straw .
I am 5 55

I do this, and with cats and birds especially robins.

I am a mature, well educated adult with a responsible job and respected by others. I also still find farting very funny. Whenever possible I will lift a cheek, grunt like a pig & let rip as loudly as possible, for as long as possible then enjoy the after effects.

I do these.

Amd rum up the stairs on all fours ro escape the monster.

I'm 49. Long may it continue!

I love doing a big slide on a slippery floor especially in big buildings like airports or stations where you can do a long run up and a big careening slide. I am 61.

Surely noone sticks their feet out of the bed! 😳

I suck my thumb at night ( I'm 53). I look under the bed for monsters if my husband is away. I pick daisy petals and say "he loves me" etc, and make daisy chains , I blow dandelion clocks but do get embarrassed if I realise someone has seen me.

Oh I also sleep like a child apparently, I thrash about and kick the covers off ever night. Bum sticking out the covers every morning. I also fall out of bed more often than I’d like.

We love squash in our house - squash rules ok!

DH will take marmalade sandwiches to work for his lunch, we love a crisp butty, and my favourite lunch is spaghetti hoops on toast and you have to scoop the hoops on your fork prongs otherwise you're not doing it right.

Say "full moon, half moon, total eclipse" when eating Jaffa cakes me too @lifeispainauchocolat !

My son has the exact same comfort blanket as I did and it smells just like mine did. I'm always stealing his and smelling it to calm down. It smells like exactly like him, if I could pack him in my bag and take him everywhere with me I would 🥰

I read Enid Blyton and Chalet School books.

Such a lovely thread @Wordsareimportant
Thank you for starting it.

I ride the trolley handle, eat the chocolate off the sides, scrunch through leaves at every opportunity.

One thing no-one's said yet: I sit on my foot so I don't have to go to the loo yet. I'm doing it right now, in fact.

I catch snowflakes on my tongue
I catch falling leaves.
I like building dams on beaches that have a stream running across them.
I check the wardrobe for monsters.
I eat my dinner starting with the least favourite vegetable, working up until I have eaten my favourite, then I eat the meat.
I want my mummy when I am poorly (I'm in my 50s and she's in her 80s and from the school of "pull yourself together ").
Ask "Ask we nearly there yet?" when on a long car journey.

Did this as a child and I still do it now.... When I eat my porridge I pretend I'm goldilocks, in my head im saying too hot, too cold, just right as I work my way round the bowl 🤣

@MagpiePi Have the urge to change ‘To Let’ signs to say Toilet

Me too! I also want to write 'hammer time' on stop signs and even better add 'ice baby' to any sign saying 'ice'. I also want to draw moustaches and glasses on election posters. I have never indulged these urges I should add, not even as a kid.

I eat my cereal with a teaspoon. My 6 year old eats her cereal with a tablespoon. I've never graduated to a tablespoon at home. In public I have.

Do handstands or springy cartwheels.

Eat cake batter.

Eat my veg first in a roast dinner because even though I like it I can't shake the habit of "getting the boring stuff out of the way" before I can get to the good parts. Yorkshire pudding always eaten last of course.

Oh and smash Easter eggs off my head