Do you feel all "grown up"?

[zanana1]

I don't and I'm 63. I feel like a 20 year-old stuck in a 63 year-old body sometimes.

Things I do when no one else is around;

--Listen to Led Zeppelin LOUD

--Dance around the house like a dervish

--Talk to my cat

--Watch cartoons

I know there are other things, but I don't want to "over share".

Please tell me I'm not the only lunatic out here.

[Lars39]

1. "Act your age not your shoe size"

No, thanks, I'd rather age as gracefully as you are.

[WinkyDink]

2. No, and I'm 66. No men my age dress like my father did; no woman wears dresses like my mother did.

I don't belong to a Country Club and golf, play bridge and poker, attend clambakes and dinner-dances, or belong to a bowling league---as my parents did.

In total seriousness, the TV Mary Martin "Peter Pan" had a profound effect on me as a child.

[sarge43]

3. Nope and I don't intend to.

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I spent the better part of my life doing what was expected of me. Now I don't have that much time left, so I'm going to do what I enjoy. Yes I still have responsibilities and I attend to them; otherwise I'm going to

do a wobbly dance around the living room to Old Time Rock 'n Roll

read the books I never had time for

watch The Venture Bros, Duckman and movies that get no critical love

wear comfortable ugly shoes or go bare foot

house work? When I get around to it

GOTV

have meaningful conversations with our macaw

look forward to another spring and my roses. Then autumn and the glory of foliage.

George Carlin: Old people are just bent kids.

[Aristus]

4. No. I'm 47, and I still feel like an awkward 17 year-old sometimes.

When I was 17, I thought people in their forties had everything figured out, and didn't feel like little kids on the inside...

[Phentex]

5. Sometimes my kids make me feel like the grownup...

but most of the time I still feel like a kid.

[shenmue]

6. I do, and I don't like it

I don't want to grow up.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Some days I feel like I'm in my 20's....

But then again, some days I feel like I'm in my 80's.



(I'm 63 too. )

[In_The_Wind]

8. Only when I can't avoid it.

Mr ITW takes a lot of watching these days but when he's having a good day I can too.

Spring and summer is my time to play. I sit for hours watching the squirrels, birds, fish in the pond and keeping my inside flock happy.

[femmocrat]

9. I do because I had to.

As the oldest, I always had to be "the responsible one." I got married young and had my children in my early 20s. Now I'm a grandma, but my kids still need me. My "childish" side comes out when I play with my grandchildren. I can escape into fun and fantasy with them. Being a grandma is the best job yet!

[OriginalGeek]

10. I'm 52 and nearly my entire non-work wardrobe

is jeans and black death metal band t-shirts.

This is me (on the right) 2 weeks ago air-guitaring at a Voivod show. (That shirt is from the band Immortal Bird who I'm excited to see in a couple weeks here. I'll probably wear the Voivod shirt I got here to the Immortal Bird show)



You can't really tell as my hair is pulled back but it's pretty long. (not counting the missing patch on top).

Sometimes I wear a kilt in public and I also watch cartoons and I embarrass my granddaughters constantly just because it's funny.

If you pull up next to me at an intersection chances are pretty good you'd hear Napalm Death or Led Zeppelin blaring from my stereo.

I have recently discovered the joy of the flip-flop. It took me a long time to warm up to something between my toes but now I kinda love it. I'm not above wearing cargo shorts and flip flops into a sit-down restaurant. But I'll still have on a metal band shirt.

We went to a really fancy steak house for an anniversary dinner a few years back - they require reservations and request coats and ties for the gentlemen. That was fine with me as I do occasionally like to dress up and feel fancy (and my suit looks great with my burnt caramel Lucchese Ostrich skin cowboy boots). So we get there and find out we are right in the middle of Tampa, Florida's Gasparilla festival. Here we are, all dressed up in line waiting for our table among pirates and wenches (not a value judgement - that was their word). I was chatting with the host and asked him if it was a PITA to enforce the restaurant's dress code and he said they don't even try any more. "It's Florida. Whatcha gonna do?" I took that as permission to wear whatever I want wherever I want to.

And I probably won't act my age until my age has me bedridden. I might try to behave during the sponge-bath. Might. I've admired MiddleFingerMom for along time so it might not be easy.

[Solly Mack]

11. No, and I don't plan on becoming one either.

I dance around my house every day and I don't care who's around. I break into song as well. I will pop into a room, make some silly announcement, and pop right back out.

I giggle when something is funny even if the situation is serious.

I rather sit on the floor than a chair.

I roll about the floor and the yard with my dogs.

I dance with my dogs. They enjoy slow dances in my arms. They also enjoy being carried about the house so they can see things on high. I do that for them.

My music is loud.

I never stopped using coloring books. It is fun and relaxing and always has been for me.

I love to fingerpaint.

When I have to pretend to be a grown-up, I do - sort of.

[benld74]

12. 59 with 60 in September. And NEVER!