To ask what it is about adulthood that didn’t meet your childhood expectations (lighthearted)

[TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl]

For me, from various sources such as parental threats, what I was taught in school and those scary public safety message videos, I did not expect:

• How difficult it ACTUALLY is to ‘have someone’s eye out’. You’d have thought doing something like running too fast would result in this but I’ve never met a person who only has one eye due to being whipped with a towel by their sibling
• Never once needed to recall Pythagoras theorem
• The distinct lack of stim king acirss quicksand and lack of opportunity to retrieve frisbees from pylons
• Not being smacked as a child has not resulted in me being a spoilt brat with no coping skills, as my mum was promised I’d be!

That I cannot do what I want when I want. I couldn't wait for my turn, as an adult, to be in charge.

That has never happened.

That leaving mounds of wet towels and dirty clothes is less appealing when you are the one who has to go back and pick them up later.

🤣🤣🤣

Why do we still not have jet packs???? I don’t want a smaller phone I want to jet around wherever I want!!!

Quick sand, bears and getting lost in the wilderness are not problems that come up as often as I'd anticipated.

I was told repeatedly by my maths teacher I wouldn't be walking around with a calculator in my pocket at all times.

I suppose she was kind of right, its more like a computer!

Also I wish someone, maybe your 6th form tutor, would be tasked with telling you how much of your time will be dedicated to the management of bins.

When I was a kid I thought you could dig for oil in your garden and I hoped we’d find some and become rich. When I was an adult I realised it wasn’t really a case of getting your spade out and digging up the lawn!

@ChocolatemilkBertie With you on the beanie babies!

@TossieFleacake I'm underwhelmed by both Blackpool and my household lights. My mum really oversold things.

I've never been invited to join a cult which I'm quite disappointed about. Why don't they want me? 😥

The office is far less scandalous than TV led me to believe. Also far fewer heels and suits (which I am very happy about!)

It's a lot harder to have sex against a wall and on various household surfaces than it looks on TV. Whoever designed houses did not account for height (especially very different heights between partners)

I still haven't gone blind or grown hair on palms of my hands no matter how much I've tried😉

I have indeed felt the benefit of keeping my coat on.

Washing my hair during my period didn't cause pneumonia.

😂

My parents were rich as fuck. I was shocked that I wasn’t rich and had to budget :(

That is my main complaint.

So much bloody cleaning, cooking and laundry.

I demand a recount. Down with this sort of thing!

Wearing black eyeliner in my lower lid, twice, aged 14, did not turn me into a brazen hussy as my headmistress warned it might.

Rather wish it had. Would have been quite fun I think.

Staying up all night and eating sweets for dinner means I’ve probably had a breakdown

I have never caught a chill in my kidneys despite not tucking my top in occasionally.

Piccadilly Circus on a Saturday morning is not in any way comparable to me having a couple of friends in the house.

Horses haven’t “come between me and my wits’ end” despite riding most of my life.

"Be very careful what you wish for, because you'll probably get it"

Turned out to be an accurate assessment and warning of my primary traits .

On the upside though, I do eat food that I like now that I do the cooking.

I'm not prime minister with a loving husband, as planned. I do have wonderful children though.

Always thought I can't wait to go to bed whenever I Want! Turns out that's actually 9pm.

If you are Vit A deficient it may help which is odd because this was a thing due to WWII British propaganda to explain pilots night vision and hide radar invention from Germans and ministry of food dealing with carrot glut in time of rationing and food shortages.

I was frequently by my school teachers and head of sixth form that I would look back on my school days as the best in my life - thank fuck it was, as I suspect at time, an outrageous lie.

Have never been stuck in quicksand or needed to rescue someone from quicksand and I’m actually weirdly regretful about it. I had all the techniques ready!

This is the best thread ever!!

My DSis never ate crusts because she didn't want curly hair like our DM. I ate them. I have curly hair, her hair is dead straight!

The quicksand, the pylons...oh brings back memories 😄

I was told to keep my ears covered at night by my DGM so earwigs wouldn't crawl in. I'm 51 and still paranoid about earwigs crawling in my ears at night.