As children, when we saw grown-ups behave in certain ways, we more than likely promised ourselves we would never be like them.
That we would never lose our temper at minor things, groan over the slightest ache in our bodies, or choose work over fun.
However, when adulthood creeps up on us, certain things about the person you become you have little to no control over.
As a result, you might find yourself screaming at children for being too noisy or going to bed at 9:15 instead of seeing a midnight screening of your favorite movie and realizing that you have become the very thing you've been trying to avoid your entire life.
Redditor UglyLikeCaillou was curious to hear what type of person the Reddit community ended up becoming, despite vowing they wouldn't, leading them to ask:
"What type of person did you swear to never turn into growing up, but did anyway?"
Letting It Out Can Ease The Pain...
"The one that makes noises when I get up off the floor."- tutohooto
The Wise Know The Vital Importance Of Being Silly
"I swore I’d never stop being goofy."
"That I’d always try to find the positive and wouldn’t give up hope."
"But then life happened."
"It’s hard staying an emotionally sensitive and caring person when so many people are just plain mean."- Lucky_Garbage5537
It's Possible, Even In A Room Full Of People...
"I never thought I would grow up to be so lonely, but here I am."- oldbaldgrumpy
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Temper Temper...
"An angry person."
"Life and people are just too much all the time."-Jumpy-Air-3385
Some Call It Frugal, Others Call It Cheap....
"The kind that put something back cause the store brand was 20 cents cheaper."- penndelnj
A Far Too Common Occurrence
"I never thought I'd live paycheck to paycheck by my age."
"I thought I'd be on my way to being financially independent by now, in fact."
"It's always been my goal, I was willing to work so hard from such a young age and never scared to make sacrifices but unfortunately my people-reader is skewed and all I ever really got was taken advantage of."
"It's not too late, I'm smarter now and I'll get there."- FriendCountZero
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Working Hard For The Money...
"A corporate slave."- lapdanze
"My dad was an engineer and I vowed to never be like him in any way."
"Growing up, I always said over my dead body would i become a corporate slave chained to a desk."
"Guess who is a desk jockey engineer now."- Lame_usernames_left
Watch Your Mouth!
"If my child self met my adult self, he’d tell me that I shouldn’t say so many bad words."- BarthRevan
The Apple Doesn't Fall Very Far From The Tree...
"My dad."- PolarBearChuck
"The most relatable one, nobody wants to become their parents, it’s horrible (unless you have good parents)."- Fine-Macaroon-3202
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The Comfort Of Your Own Home...
"A homebody."
"In my early 20’s I would never miss an opportunity to go out on Thurs, Friday, or Sat night and couldn’t understand why my parents would ‘waste’ a perfectly good weekend night, just to stay home."
"Now I get it. MAN, do I get it."
Derogatory Term, Or Term Of Endearment?
"I remember learning what a nerd was and thinking 'thank God I'm not a nerd' as I went home from school to play Pokemon Emerald and talk on Pokemon message boards about the upcoming Diamond and Pearl games."- hectoByte
Early To Bed, Early To Rise
"The dad that gets up at 4:30 am to exercise, and is ready for bed by 9 pm."- GreyPilgrim1973
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Beauty Comes In All Sizes...
"Overweight."
"Not super big, but not skinny anymore."- hoosierhiver
One Can Indeed Be The Loneliest Number...
"Crotchety, single old lady."
"I'm only sometimes crotchety, but I'm almost fifty and still single!"- GimmeUrNachos
Love What You Do! If You Can...
"An office drone."
"Redditing as we speak to avoid looking at yet another ghastly eyesore of a spreadsheet.'
"Why have we done this to ourselves as a civilization?"- onemanmelee
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Growing up can be scary, hence why we always promise ourselves we won't turn out a certain way.
Even so, some things about the type of person we grow up to be are completely out of our control.
And rather than bemoan our current situation, it's always best to embrace it and enjoy the precious time we have on Earth with our family and friends.
And maybe cut our parents a little slack for the behavior we judged them so harshly on as children...
"What's a common first date activity that people do that's actually really stupid to do for a first date?"
It's Hard To Decide How You Feel If You Can't Hear Yourself Think
"Loud bar."- AwkwardBlaque
Sometimes It's Worth The Gamble...
"My first date with my husband, (blind date, we talked on the phone once, I didn’t even know what he looked like) was to the symphony."
"It was an hour away and then there was the symphony with a full intermission worth of potential awkwardness, then a full hour drive back."
"I mean clearly the date went amazing."
"We went to ice cream afterwards and sat in his car talking until three in the morning."
"But I never thought about it until right now how potentially disastrous that evening could have been if we hadn’t had major chemistry."- jardinc
Best To Transport Yourself There...
"A long-ish car ride."
"I invited a first date to a great restaurant, fun environment too, but didn't think about the fact that it was about a 30+ minute drive each way."
"Kind of an awkward trip to and from, especially when it turned out that we really didn't have much in common."
"The trip back took a loooong time."- ElectricMan324
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"In John Waters' memoir he talks about going to these 'Fright and Fight' double features where they would show a horror movie then a kung fu movie back to back."
"And I can't imagine how many poor women were taken to these to be subjected to not one but two bad movies in a row, only for the guy she's with to get in a fight in the parking lot afterwards trying to impress her."- stevebobeeve
...Though One Movie Isn't Much Better
"Going to a movie."
"Just staring at a screen instead of getting to know each other."- artemesia-vulgaris
Literally Trapped
"Escape rooms.'
"I work at one and the amount of first dates doing our rooms is too dang high."
"There aren't enough people to even play."
"If you show up with two, we make you pay for a third ticket minimum."
"You can't learn anything about each other because you're too busy playing."
"You will suck and you will get frustrated."
"Not a good look on a first date."- TJtherock
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"An expensive dinner."- Throwie911
Somewhere You Can Talk, Without Shouting Or Annoying Others
"Movie, because your attention is not directed towards your date."
"Loud bar is worse."
"Quiet bar is best."
"Drinks to loosen the tongue and cozy atmosphere to reveal oneself."
"Plus, it's public enough that you can count on reasonably good behavior."- redditusernamehonked
A Good Idea In Theory, Less So In Practice...
"I took a girl to a first date at a wine and canvas thing."
"We both liked to draw and paint and had similar tastes in drinks."
'Lots to talk about and activity to occupy us if there was a lull in the conversation."
"Great idea, if only I had considered the fact that when I draw/paint I pretty much shut everything else out and just draw/paint."
"Poor girl spent 3 hours with me as I grunted out responses, had a scotch and painted something that I still use as a holiday decoration to this day."
"We did not have a second date."
"Don’t take people to a wine and canvas event if you turn into a monosyllabic, boozy artist."- ShiggityShua
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"Visit with anybody, friends, parents, neighbors."
"It's insane to be around people who know the person you are dating well, and not you at all."
"It's like a job interview in front of a panel."
"No fun at all."- luckygirl54
Generally speaking, trying to impress on a first date often ends with your efforts blowing up in your face.
Which is why trying to create the best first date imaginable often destroys any possible chance of a second date.
And truth be told, sometimes you can tell if there will be a second date based solely off their coffee or drink order.
Ice in white wine is never a good sign...
"McDonald's workers of Reddit, what is the one menu option that you would recommend people never eat and why?"
Less The Menu Than The Location.
"Really depends on store and location."
"In my experience everything is pretty clean compared to other places I've worked."
"And because the food sits in heating trays, even the stale food is relatively safe to eat."
"They are also pretty anal with inventory and food waste."
"With the volume they push out weekly, it would be very rare for a store to have expired food."
"There is a comment in here about the grease vats not being changed."
"Maybe it was just my store, but we filtered the grease nightly, and cleaned the vat before every oil change."
"The fry vats got changed the most, due to their overuse."
"We also had constant secret shoppers and annual corporate patrons who would really judge the quality of the food."
"In all honesty, it was one of the hardest jobs I've ever worked."
"I did it all in the 6 years I was there."
"Cashier, drive thru, dishes, back end, maintenance, inventory, overnights, management."
"Pretty much every job they had, I spent time in."
"Other than the miserable treatment the employees get from the customer and corporate, the overall business and restaurant side of it is impressively streamlined."
"They have quantified almost everything."
"Maybe the only thing I'd stay away from is the birthday cake."
"I don't even know if you can still buy them, but they would be like the only item in the freezer year round until some unfortunate soul bought one."- WalterPecky
Toren C Humor GIF by VPROGiphy"I worked at a burger King for a week, couldn't stand all day plus the sounds caused constant migraines."
"It was clean as you'd expect it needed to be."
"Made me feel better about eating fast food actually."
"They had a simple rule, if you wouldn't eat it or feed it to your mother then don't serve it."
"Well that plus all the other rules."- modsarefascists42
Be Selective When It Comes To Egg...
"Any of the eggs.'
'There are 2 different ones."
"When they make the scrambled they don't even cook the top of them."
"The round egg sometimes has eggs shells in them, and the folded eggs are like fake frozen squares lol."
"The only real egg is the round egg."
"And never eat the fish sandwich at night time, or the fries b4 the places closes they are not fresh and fryers are already shut off, so it just sits until someone orders it."- Bloomoon-2232
Who Cares!
"You know, no matter how many times I see something like this, it will never, ever make me stop eating fast food."- Artemis_CrabLady69
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"Worked at Subway 2010-12."
"Only thing I have to say is that tuna and seafood packaged used to have a label on it that said that it didn't contain dolphin or turtles in the meat, then that label suddenly disappeared in 2012."- UnitedTrout
Just When You Think You've Picked The Healthy Option!
"I worked at McDonald's this past summer, and I learned a LOT."
"My store hadn't served them since pre-COVID, but I would stray away from the salads."
"They actually often tend to have more calories than the burgers."
"Also, I wouldn't say not to eat them, but I would still be weary about the fries."
"In the two months I worked there, I think the fry oil was only changed once."- inreallife12001
"Worked at Dairy Queen for 4 years.'
"Do not order the salad, ever.'
"No one ever orders them, because it’s DQ, so when you do, it’s probably 2-3 days old."- naganol32
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"Not a single thing off the entire menu."
"Not because of how it's prepared or sits until it's served, but because I've read the nutrition facts of most of it in paperwork and boxes, bags and things like that."
"I worked at McDs in Canton, OH on Cleveland ave."
"Pretty well-maintained, clean place staffed by competent people, on 3rd shift, anyway, but you cant get away from whats in the food no matter how its cooked or handled."
"But I will say, based on what I saw, if you're intolerant of too much sodium for any reason, STAY AWAY from the fries specifically, and asking for unsalted doesn't make a difference."
"I don't remember a number, but thats always stuck out in my mind as being crazy high whenever their nasty food comes up in conversation."- seventytwosuccubi
We must remember, should we find ourselves eating at a fast food chain or a five star restaurant, health inspectors check them regularly.
Suggesting that everything served was at the very least cooked in a sanitary environment.
What exactly was being cooked, however, might remain a mystery...
"What have you managed to avoid your whole life?"
Perfectly Single!
"Dating."
"I single handedly avoid every date possible by being myself"- shoubby
"Marriage."- Enough_Pumpkin_3961
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"Jury duty."- blackcat211
So Far Anyway...
"Death."- CBeisbol
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"Getting covid, apparently."
"Multiple people I've been around have tested positive multiple times, every test I've had has been negative."- poqpoqo
Always Use Protection
"Herpes."- 6twoRaptor
golden girls advice GIF by HULUWe'd like to think we can avoid somethings which deep down, we know are inevitable.
But, be it through preventative measures or pure dumb luck, we can at least feel proud of ourselves for avoiding them for the time being.
And if more singletons viewed the lack of a ring on their finger as an accomplishment, one can only imagine the world would be a much happier place.