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To think that the best thing about being grown up

91 replies

WallaceWindsock · 25/06/2013 14:04

Is that you can behave like a child without getting told off? Grin

Today I've bounced on the bed, eaten a whole bag of sweets and got my shoes muddy. I love the quiet glee at knowing that my mum isn't going to come home and do her stern "WALLACE!"

So AIBU and what things that you weren't allowed to do as a child do you now do with a quiet chuckle of satisfaction?

OP posts:
MyBaby1day · 26/06/2013 03:06

Oh and...

  1. Put some music on with dodgy lyrics! and no-one tells me off!.

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garlicnutty · 26/06/2013 03:24

:) Loving this thread. And telling myself to Go To Bed, you know you'll miss the best of the day when you oversleep tomorrow and what about the this that and the other you have to do in the morning you've been putting it off for weeks and I understand but it's still got to be done ...
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... and I might just have a bit more chocolate first ... Wink

MyBaby1day · 26/06/2013 03:39

Get to bed garlicnutty Grin

MatersMate · 26/06/2013 04:23

slouch, drag my feet, not'make the most of myself' dear parents,I was never destined to give a fuck how I look!

sashh · 26/06/2013 06:43

Not having to clear up after my brother and his mates.

Not having to carry a coat I'm not going to wear, just in case.

Owning more trousers than skirts.

Tee2072 · 26/06/2013 06:52

Letting my house be untidy. Why should I put my things away when I'm done with them????

fairylightsinthespring · 26/06/2013 07:16

just the autonomy. It occasionally occurs to me how little freedom and choice my DCs have (3 and 2). Their day is organised into CM, nursery, a couple of classes etc. I control how much TV they have, how much food and when, how long they get in the bath etc. Obviously they get a certain amount of choice within all these things, but their very existence curtails my freedom to sleep all night, have a lie in, save money etc Smile so I don't feel TOO bad!

WaitingForMe · 26/06/2013 07:58

My parents didn't say stuff like that. I was allowed an opinion, to stay in bed as late as I liked, wear what I liked.

DH was mid 30s before he told his mum to stop. She still likes to think we're interested in what rules she thinks we should live by, the dotty dear Sad

It nearly blew his mind the day I said I wanted dry roasted peanuts and red wine for tea Grin

dottyladybug · 26/06/2013 08:05

I had 2 custard creams and 4 chocolate fingers for breakfast yesterday!

lightrain · 26/06/2013 08:12

Wine (obviously wouldn't have wanted it when I was little, but the fact that it exists and I can drink it if I want it!).

Being able to afford things that I want, within reason, and being in charge of what I spend my money on in general.

Getting to chose the food I buy and eat.

I love being a grown up. Would never want to go back to being a child. Now are the best years of my life, for sure!

Tee2072 · 26/06/2013 08:13

I am about to have a piece of chocolate cake. Pudding after my breakfast. Grin

froubylou · 26/06/2013 08:20

Be able to buy alcohol legally. And not have to resort to nicking dodgy homebrew from the airing cupboard. Thats makes you violently sick.

Not having to share a room with my very annoying sisters.

To be able to come home smelling of horse and eat tea in smelly horse clothes in front of the TV. Though my DP has been known to enquire if I would like a bath running. And I suspect its not out of the goodness of his heart.

To be able to inflict all the ridiculous rules and regulations on my DD that I had inflicted on me. Though I do allow her to lounge about in smelly, muddy jodphurs encrusted in horse hair. As long as I am doing the same.

bettycocker · 26/06/2013 08:21

Eating a Cornetto for breakfast when I'm hungover.

Agree about not being forced to go outside on a sunny day!

Being able to spend the entire day in bed on a Sunday (now DS is a teenager) if I want to.

Not being told who I can be friends with.

dancingwithmyselfandthecat · 26/06/2013 08:24

Not having to socialise with random children and no expectation that I will get on with people just because we are a similar age.

MrsPennyapple · 26/06/2013 08:27

Being able to have cake for breakfast if I want.

My mother having to follow my rules in my house - I LOVE that! When we were kids she always used to turn kids' TV off to watch bloody Countdown or 15 to 1. Fast forward to last time she visited, we don't have TV on while we eat so I switched it off - halfway through some horrendous quiz show she was watching. The look on her face was priceless!

FanjoPaterson · 26/06/2013 08:37

Being able to crash diet without being lectured. Yes, I know it's bad for me. No, right now I don't care.

Watching box sets of Star Trek until one in the morning and not having your mum walk to the telly and unplug it.

Skipping breakfast. Wonderful, glorious. Sometimes I do it just to hear the silence instead of the nagging.

I'm the only one who knows how long it's been since I've washed my jeans.

Pyjama days. Why my parents never had them is utterly beyond me.

marriedinwhiteagain · 26/06/2013 08:38

To DD's headmistress "we will reconvene this meeting in five minutes and when I come back in you will speak to me like an adult". That was good esp as the school had been out of order and not dd.

Apart from that I agree with thebody

DoJo · 26/06/2013 08:59

The days when my husband and I have cider and crisps for dinner! And staying up as late as I like (although I sometimes take that to excess and refuse to go to bed even when dog tired and in need of sleep, just because I still feel like I'm giving in by going to bed early!).
And working with the TV on - my mum said it simply wasn't possible, but I prove her wrong daily.

monkeymamma · 26/06/2013 09:27

Not having to face the thrice weekly humiliation of PE lessons at school.

RoginaInWellies · 26/06/2013 10:22

Swearing. I bloody love it. And in the appropriate context I still think it IS big and it IS clever and doesn't equate to a lack of vocabulary. My mum would never have agreed.

parno · 26/06/2013 10:26

My favourite thing is being able to have a cold drink and an ice lolly when it's hot.

YouTheCat · 26/06/2013 10:29

I'm with Monkey - no more PE and being last picked.

Learning how to spot a total fruitloop so you don't waste time talking to idiots.

Drinking: booze and copious amounts of coffee.

Having a biscuit without having to ask. Grin

Startail · 26/06/2013 10:33

Owning a car, the freedom just to drive somewhere because I want to.

I cycle miles as a child and I guess it's the grown up version of that.

NOT having to tidy up, or having to force my DDs to tidy up.

I HATED the constant nagging to put things away before I'd finished.

Trouble is I'm actually too untidy as an adult and the chaos depresses me, I wish I could find a middle way and train my equally untidy DH and DDs to follow it too!

WildlingPrincess · 26/06/2013 10:34

I eat coco pops for dinner sometimes and I don't make my bed.

Brices · 26/06/2013 10:42

I choose not to live with my parents and feel much calmer without the mindless aggression