People Share The Moment They Realized They Were Grown Up.

It’s a crazy feeling when something happens in your life and makes you realize just how old you’ve gotten.

Below are the exact moments people realized they were all grown up! Check them out!

I went to a doctor and he was younger than me.

NonsequiturSushi

A few weeks ago I was driving slowly as I was approaching a stop sign and some kid threw an egg at my car. When I told the story later, I literally said ‘These kids have no respect for adults anymore’ and realised that made me even angrier at them.

roloem91

Whenever I watch an action movie these days, throughout the car chases I’m getting angrier and angrier for the poor commuters’ cars getting damaged along the way.

Every action hero is just a colossal jerk raising everyone else’s insurance premiums. The next big action movie should be me, plotting the destruction of MI6, as payback for every car James Bond has ever damaged/destroyed. “No, mr Bond, I expect you to leave your insurance details.”

That’s how I know I’m getting old.

BestFriendWatermelon

The other day I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed like, “Who are all these old people?”

Turns out they’re my friends from high school and college.

TheLeopardColony

I bought cat litter that clumped properly, and was the most excited I had been in a long time.

CAMKRAFT

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I broke my toe and it healed in the wrong place, which causes me pain when I walk. After several doctors visits have made it clear I can’t fix it, I’ve now realised that this is just the first of those minor things that will go wrong with my body that I’ll have with me the rest of my life.

John_Wilkes

When I woke up last year and my ankles were killing me. Went to the hospital to get a crap ton of tests, from x-rays, blood tests, the works. Saw two different doctors. Both found nothing wrong. Both said, “You’re just getting older.” I had to hold myself back from retorting with, “No, YOU’RE getting older!!!” They were both 2-3 years younger than me.

yognautilus

I was watching TV in a rainy day sitting on my couch.

I looked to my right, and there was this young boy who just was keeping me company as the day was getting darker, he then looked at me in the eyes and yawned, he put his little head over my shoulder and before closing his eyes said in a sweet high pitched voice: “good night dad”.

He proceeded to fall asleep and wrap his arms around my own arm.

That was the moment.

1011111100011

When I heard a song that was on the radio when I was in high school playing in the grocery store.

cogit4se

My latest birthday, 50, is really making me feel old. My son who is 26 asked me what it felt like to be ‘my’ age. I said: “I don’t know. I’m still playing video games and reading comic books. So what do I know?”

kendric2000

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When I realised that my leaving my crap job would irreparably alter the lives of people I love for the worse. When you’re young, you can slip up a bit in your career path and be fine, change careers and what not. When you’re old, you don’t have that many choices anymore, you can’t take time off , you can’t afford to be unemployed since there are people depending on you.

rootware

When my friends started having kids on purpose.

Qu4ttro87

I threw out my back cause I coughed on the toilet.

unclebrenty

When I started looking to see if the women I was checking out had a wedding ring on.

popop222

When I started to remember stuff that happened twenty years ago.

prisonprincess

When I realized there were certain life paths that were flat out closed to me now.

– Be in the Olympics? Nope. Should have started training decades ago.

– Air traffic controller? Nope. Past the max age to train for it.

– All the armed forces? Off limits.

Even in my own career, I’m pretty much a dinosaur at this point.

zombie_dance_party

When I had to explain to the new guys at work what a floppy disk was.

obtrae

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I’d say it was when I started to notice all the celebrities were younger than me. Musicians and sports stars especially. They’re retiring at my age and I don’t even feel like my career has started.

pinky0926

When I started hearing the rock music I grew up listening to on the classic rock station.

Also having people confuse my wife as my daughter. She is only two years younger then me. It has happened too many times.

DCxMiLK

When a hangover would take more than an hour after waking up to go away.

roscoe266

Last year- I tried to do a backflip in a bouncy house at a 2 year old’s birthday.

26 years old, 6′ 1″, 215lbs. Perfect scorpion. I got completely vertical, my rotation stalled, extended my legs to try and counter, but wound up dropping all of me on my head.

My neck hurt for a month, my pride will ache forever.

TheMightyTater

The new college grads at my office are now old enough to be my kids. Not some knocked up in high school deal, but graduated from college and married kids.

abeVgoda

Walking into the DMV and seeing all the teenagers getting driver’s permits. I wrongly assumed many of them were just kids getting dragged around for errands.

Retrogordon

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So many bigger milestones since, but the first was probably looking in the mirror one morning, and realising that a hair had grown out of my ear overnight.

BrundleCopter

When I had to ask my niece how old she was. I then realized it was the stuff my aunt had been asking me probably thrice a year when I was around my niece’s age.

NopaQ

Christmas..

“Is this 12 pairs of socks? And six boxers? For me? For Christmas? Awesome, I needed those. So happy”.

justjoshingu

After college at my first job; I was just assigned work with zero explanation of how to do it.

I’d always had a syllabus and a due date and homework of some sort to give an example of what to do.

At work. Nope. Here’s the desired end result figure it out

BarelyLegalSeagull

When I had to start getting up a half hour earlier than my usual time, so I could do a variety of stretches for my back/hips. Otherwise they ache all day.

Have to do the same before bed or else I wake up sore.

ghuss

Many, but one in particular that was like the holy trinity of “You’re a sad old lady now”

– I somehow believed a miracle under-eye cream would make me look 10 years younger. So I bought it because the insta-account seemed legit.

– Surprise, was a scam. I got internet scammed for an under eye cream.

– When I called my bank to reverse the hundreds of dollars of charges, a young fella named Todd gave me a speech about how to stay safe on the internet. The same speech I gave my parents years ago.

So that’s me, a silly old lady at 37.

e_ban_TO

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I’m not even that old but I was a camp counsellor last summer and when the kids were telling me they were born in 2011 and 2012 I felt very old.

SassyChild

When injuries started to take longer to heal, if at all.

culanap

When I interviewed and hired someone born in 1996–the year I graduated.

compostedpancakes

When I made a reference to The Matrix in a conversation with a new colleague (she was 20 years old) and she pulled a weird face and was like “……..what?”