25 Signs That You’ve Grown Up

by Joey deVilla on September 28, 2006

Here’s a list of 25 signs that you’ve moved on from your crazy university days and into adulthood. It doesn’t necessarily mean that your lust for life has to end — my thirties represent some of the best and wildest times I’ve had (”He doesn’t need a bachelor party, his goddamn life has been a bachelor party,” said my buddy George once). But yes, I haven’t stumbled from a party at 6 a.m. in quite some time.

A quick note about item 24, “You drink at home to save money before going to a bar”: we always did that back at Crazy Go Nuts University. We called it “warming up”.

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1 Anonymous September 28, 2006 at 6:46 am

Indeed, I’ve also done that for years. Started in university, and continued on after university for at least 3-4 years. Don’t do it much over here in Ireland these days, but that’s primarily because I don’t go *out* in Ireland all that much :)

2 Anonymous September 28, 2006 at 8:35 am

“I just can’t drink the way I used to,” replaces, “I’m never going to drink that much again.”

Um yeah. UM, YEAH.

3 Anonymous September 28, 2006 at 8:41 am

At the UWashington, that was referred to as “prefunk”. The most memorable occasions were before home football games, where it started at 10 am with pancakes and mimosas.

4 Anonymous September 28, 2006 at 10:42 am

Might I add one more to the list: Your back goes out more often than you do.

5 Anonymous September 28, 2006 at 11:33 am

#24 is called pre-drinking. It becomes unneccesary when two pints of Stella will do you in. Ergo, it’s a young man’s game.

6 Anonymous September 28, 2006 at 12:35 pm

I have managed to kill all my plants, and I do have more beer in the fridge than food. I do not watch the Weather Channel, but, I have heard my favourite song on an elevator (or the lobby of my building) more than once.

Mmmh, I’m kinda grown up, kinda not so much, I guess.

7 Anonymous September 29, 2006 at 2:57 am

For us the term was “front-loading”.

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