Facts | TheaterFire

I dunno, maybe what we need is someone that's not part of the politcal elite and has no experience in politics, like a tabloid star or a reality TV show host or something. Or even better, a billionaire businessman that's declared bankruptcy six times. Maybe someone with ridiculous hair who wears a ton of makeup and doesn't know how to drive a car and has never done his own grocery shopping. Like, the type of guy that hates dogs and has cheated on all of his wives and has a really inappropriate relationship with his daughter...

You know, a real man of the people.

It's crazy but it just might work.

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Still-Entertainer99@reddit

Good pull. Thank you

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CatchAlarming6860@reddit

Pull?

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Still-Entertainer99@reddit

It was a great reference to pull from! Good pull for short, I think it’s a thing.

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darkiya@reddit

At least we would never elect a reality tv host

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johnvalley86@reddit

Fascinating. A portable television Studio. Of course the president's an actor he has to look good on film

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DustedGorilla82@reddit

Then who’s Vice president? Jerry Lewis?

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cat_at_the_keyboard@reddit

When you're driving in your Chevy and you feel something heavy

Diarrhea

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NonCorporealEntity@reddit

When you're sliding into third and you feel a sudden turd...

Diarrhea

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Roland-Of-Eld-19@reddit

When youre sliding into home
And ya feel some juicy foam...
Diarrhea... Diarrhea... 💩

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HungoverDemogorgon@reddit

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When I see the power bill

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SkoomaDentist@reddit

Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?

Yes. Yes, there is.

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mommyaiai@reddit

Nope, turns out I'm 2026, the earth just sucks.

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PokesBo@reddit

He ain’t heavy. He’s my brother

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Slim_Margins1999@reddit

“We’re not so different, you and I”

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remeolb@reddit

I can’t tell if I don’t get the joke or someone let a boomer in.

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MartyMcFlyAsFudge@reddit

It might be ahead of your time but trust me, your kids are gonna love it.

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remeolb@reddit

OMG how the hell did I not catch that? I quit. I’m sorry everyone.

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Busy_Fly8068@reddit

Great Scott!

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anhydrousslim@reddit

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Ok_Industry3016@reddit

Truth bomb.

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VornadoLaCroix@reddit

This made me laugh. So much truth here. Finally realizing I don't have to fix them in my 40s.

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Majestic-Marzipan621@reddit

I've never related more to a meme. Pretty sure we had the same couch too. Lol

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Allrojin@reddit

Going through this right now. I feel like I'm just getting started and I'm at the least halfway through this life.

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Due_Boot_8960@reddit

Me too!

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IWasAGoodDadISwear@reddit

We are not inclined to resign to maturity.

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Fr4gd0ll@reddit

Considering how many of my peers and I were the backbone of our family much too young, this seems like business as usuual.

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MetalLinkachu@reddit

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or at least it feels like it somedays.

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MetalLinkachu@reddit

This!

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Comfortable-Pea-1312@reddit

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Preach

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Aggravating_Bat3618@reddit

I wish I had an Uncle Eddie.

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GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace@reddit

I now am Uncle Eddie

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Hntrbdnshog@reddit

I think both can be true. Some of us feel like perpetual teenagers and forever adults at the same time because our childhoods were spent doing adult stuff we didn’t feel qualified for or totally understand and then the feeling just never went away.

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Vox_Tenebris_@reddit

I'm not part of this generation (Late 1990's here) - but I relate to this a lot. Especially with regards to my parents both from the Late 1960's). While I'm approaching thirty these days, I've often been the voice of reason and even authority within my family. Especially since I was around twenty-two or twenty-three.

This is to a point that my grandmother has it in her will that the family home, plus her insurance policies, go to me when she passes on because she doesn't trust my parents with the family's finances. As she often tells me "I trust you, you're going to be just fine. It's your parents that I worry about when I'm gone."

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RoundTheBend6@reddit

Parentification... real.

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King_P_13@reddit

This is why I don't have a family just a dog 🤣

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Genuine_Imitation_32@reddit

That's my secret to looking younger than I am, I stay immature.

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ACorania@reddit

Amen

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daisy6252@reddit

😂

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sparkletigerfrog@reddit

Omgg , this!!

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SliderD99@reddit

And you likely get zero respect for all your efforts......

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Dick-Guzinya@reddit

I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t one of the main reasons I didn’t want kids.

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jackfaire@reddit

I feel like my 25 year old daughter is the only one not relying heavily on me.

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LordMarty@reddit

the fact you can't attract a female has nothing to do with it?

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

What kind of dweeb calls women "females"?

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yayoffbalance@reddit

The kind you ignore.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

But now it's taunting me what do I do?

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

This is probably solid advice

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LordMarty@reddit

Sorry if a struck a nerve but I still think your repulsive state will not attract a ‘women’

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Nament_@reddit

Yeah, as the oldest child I knew straight up my parents entire plan was for me to pick up the slack on their financial choices. They're in their mid-60s, broke, with zero assets, and renting. I know pretty soon it's all going on me (siblings are no-contact). Children were off the table since I realized this is my future while still in highschool.

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iamreeterskeeter@reddit

Yup. I just had to move back in with my mom because she shouldn't live alone anymore. I am back in this prison.

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Fickle_Wrangler_7439@reddit

I mean there's probably a reason your sibs are no contact. You could just leave.

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iamreeterskeeter@reddit

Bingo! My dogs are all i can handle. I already put in the work with my family.

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Fickle_Wrangler_7439@reddit

That and childhood introduced me to death and nihilsm very young. I was one of the kids for whom all those sad children's books about death were written.

To quote a recent award-winning video game, "I love my children so much, I didn't have them."

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Less_Likely@reddit

I’m barely responsible enough to take care of my dog.

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ThatEvanFowler@reddit

And my cats are barely responsible enough to take care of my birds and fish...

.... OH NO!

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OkBaconBurger@reddit

That’s actually a very responsible and insightful thing to say, though.

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ProduceNo1629@reddit

But who is going to avenge you by destroying the AI owners?

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velvet_blunderground@reddit

Don't worry, parents may also eventually do this to us.

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Pankosmanko@reddit

That’s exactly why I have none. My life is not nearly stable enough to drag a family through it

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mike_stifle@reddit

Is this normal?

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ihadtopickthisname@reddit

I think its because we dont have time to do anything outside of work, pay bills, and barely maintain the semblance of life outside of work. Generations before us didnt have to work such crazy hours, paid way less for everything, and could use that time and money to do things that grew them intrinsically. If that makes sense.

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ConcreteKeys@reddit

I think our pop culture was childish and stunted our development.

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Kade7596@reddit

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Indubitalist@reddit

I do feel like something’s been missing from our lives that was essential to he upbringing of our forebears. I wonder if we need more hardship, but I also think there’s no way we haven’t seen enough.

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General_Departure583@reddit

From the perspective of our grandfathers and great grandfathers it was serving in World War that changed all of them.

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OkBaconBurger@reddit

It’s something I think about a lot. Like I feel like there was more time for life. Then I try to add perspective. My mom didn’t work for the longest time. My dad had a factory job and was home by 3:15. My folks only had two kids. Low cost of living. Etc..

Wildly different than the life I have now.

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DualActiveBridgeLLC@reddit

This shit doesn't normally make me pause, but this one is very real. I got laid off for a month and that was traumatizing. Not because ofmyself, but because I was worried about my family. Serious radicalizing moment.

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Ill_Amount6549@reddit

I know that's right

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billsfan411@reddit

Just a summer family beach trip is like walking on glass.... My wallet hurts, everyone bitches and in the end I do most of the work. But every day these fuckers look at me like well what now... ugh

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NineToeBIll@reddit

I was just driving home from work today thinking, "Fuck, when did I turn 46"

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Self-Translator@reddit

I just thought to myself glad I'm not 46.

Then I calculated my age and gulped... I'm not far behind you.

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I-am-the-stallion@reddit

And at that moment you realized that you're actually 47😆

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IntroductionOk683@reddit

I drove past a 55+ community, and thought welp just ten more years before I’m eligible to buy there. It’s a section of homes within a master planned community which I think is genius.

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wasabiburning@reddit

just ten more years before I’m eligible to buy there.

Finally I have something to look forward to

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DEADPOOL___@reddit

I drove past a 50+ community and got mad lol.

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OkBaconBurger@reddit

And I still play Nintendo and watch cartoons. Just with my kids now.

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NineToeBIll@reddit

Literally just had a friend over (1983) rontrade Pokémon on our Switches.

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Dextropic@reddit

I was just minding my own business, and suddenly, 1975 was 50 years ago.

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gatesartist@reddit

My son loves to remind me I was born in the 1900s

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remeolb@reddit

It was this year. This one right here.

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lazypenguin86@reddit

The harshest realization I had turning 40 is there are no adults just a bunch of 20 year olds running around in aging bodies.

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Sasselhoff@reddit

Yep. Fun, eh?

On a side note, I literally have one of those exact tables sitting right next to me at this very moment, haha.

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badchefrazzy@reddit

I wasn't forced into being a backbone but I was treated like crap for not doing so, and 1000% feeling the "teenager in their 40s"... and it hurts like a mofo.

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throwawayfromPA1701@reddit

This is why I decided not to have a family. No way I'd be dependable

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AshDogBucket@reddit

I would be dependable but I would hate my life because I wouldn't be able to do the things I personally need to do in order to stay sane.

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throwawayfromPA1701@reddit

Thsts what I think a lot too. Every now and then I'm like "what if I had a mini-me?" but then I'm like "they'd probably dislike me."

Anyway I'm almost 45. No mini mes for me lol.

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AshDogBucket@reddit

I was a horrible dog parent for the first half of my first dog's life, while i was navigating being a human and being a dog parent and figuring it out. That damage stayed with the dog his whole life and I regret it.

But you know what? When it's a human, the impact of that horrible parenting is soooooooo much bigger. And you can't just say "welp I'll do better with the next one" when it's a kid. The world is definitely a better place without me having had children.

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Sharpshooter188@reddit

Exactly how I feel. Im 42 but still feel like I dunno wtf Im doing half the time. Just winging it and going to work to pay my bills.

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AshDogBucket@reddit

Lol nope, no thanks. #childfree

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DireKnife@reddit

Matriarch status unlocked.

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Negative-Midnight681@reddit

This shits so real

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DJSugarSnatch@reddit

When your childhood was stolen as a sexually abused, physically abused latch key kid to pay for your own childcare/chores/survival. You age like banana in the sun from all that stress.. then you get the honor of taking care of them as they can't even remember who you are, or respect you as you are their daily punching bag as they descend into madness. You work a full time job and try to stop them from burning down the house. Nope. They try to microwave a ramen pack with the seasoning mix and burn the kitchen down. Work double time to fix a rented house kitchen.. and then lose custody to a opioid addicted family member who uses them to scam meds from doc in the box. Called APS on them and it still went south. I got away from them all and even tho I lost everything, I gained everything back for my heart and soul. I might die poor, but at least I have dignity.

I'm just happy to be a teenager again before I die. =p

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snowak@reddit

Hugs.

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DJSugarSnatch@reddit

Thank you, kind stranger.

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Pineapple-Due@reddit

Or when you're talking to other adults and hope they don't realize you're just a kid in disguise

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snowak@reddit

Yep just a three kids in a trench coat situation! No way I should be in charge of anything.

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FireBug77@reddit

Just thought about that this morning, scary

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GeneAsBob@reddit

Seriously. This last weekend at a family function, someone asked how old I was and I had to think and went to tell them and had a mild panic attack! (Not seriously... We're GX but my heart skipped 2 beats) Just like how can I be this damn old????

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LaLa_820@reddit

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MomoMir@reddit

I’ve never felt something so hard.

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Porsha_Goddess@reddit

this hit way too close 😭 i had a moment like this recently where i was handling something “adult” and halfway through i was like… wait why am i the responsible one here?? i still feel like i need supervision half the time 💀

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TheWildTofuHunter@reddit

I feel like Calvin’s dad when their house is robbed way too often.

https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/1azzcm9/for_sake_of_continuity_here_is_the_entire_robbery/

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chris84126@reddit

Yup. We were all once sitting at the back of the bus having a great time and then all of a sudden found ourselves in the drivers seat! 🤣🤣🤣

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GRANDLarsonyy@reddit

🙏

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wrecktalcarnage@reddit

Queue up Usher Let it burn.

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I was a 'teenager' until I was 30. I aged mentally rapidly since.

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ThatEvanFowler@reddit

Yeah, I often feel like I'm living out a less lucky, less resourceful, less successful version of "Don't Tell Mom, The Babysitter's Dead".

But, if I'm being honest, it's probably a lot closer to the friend-without-glasses subplot in "Adventures in Babysitting".

Not sure why I seem to always cast myself as the babysitter, though. I guess my lack of desire for children runs very, very deep.

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FatReverend@reddit

Yeah, I'm barely even a person. It's a good thing I did not reproduce.

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DAHMER_SUPPER_CLUB@reddit

I got a vasectomy four years ago. No kids before this. One of the best decisions ever.

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ThatEvanFowler@reddit

I seem to have somehow managed to sterilize myself when we were teens using a fairly arbitrary combination of recreational cough syrup abuse and sheer tyranny of will. I told those sperm to just quit it already. They did.

Also, I stopped having sex, so that helped, too.

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FatReverend@reddit

I got one at 25, earliest I could get a Dr. to agree to do one. Never regrated it.

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SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit

Vasectomies are not needed when you are ambulatory woman repellent like myself.

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remeolb@reddit

I reproduced significantly better than I exist. Not sure how I accomplished that but damn am I proud. Otherwise, 100% same page, homie.

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brendan87na@reddit

well this hit home a little to close lol

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crinkledcu91@reddit

Lol well If my Boomer parents were too fucking stupid to take advantage of the fecund as shit marketplace/lifestyle they were gifted, why in the living fuck would I keep communication with their dumbasses now that I'm the same age they were now?

My dad believed that Dino bones were planted by Satan in order to cast doubt for people. I'm not gonna fuckin trust his financial decisions okay?

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Sad_Training_1595@reddit

Reading this post while watching skate videos on my old TV.

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Brent_L@reddit

Just had this conversation with my wife today. I was in a meeting for work and since I am in sales I speak with all types of people. My office is in the bedroom and since I have been living in Europe I’ve been working with EU clients. She sometimes will be doing something in the room while I work. Fast forward to 2 weeks ago and now I have all of the US to deal with client wise as someone resigned for a new position.

The guy I get on the meeting with was a bit much to stay the least (from the US). I won’t get into details but my wife was like “I don’t know how you deal with these people, I would have told him to F off and hung up.” To which I replied “sure, but you aren’t supporting an entire family with your income.” My wife is 6 years older than me and I was shocked that her telling him to go screw himself was more important than money.

Heavy is the understatement and I def feel like I’m 16 trapped in a 44 year old body 😂

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Sad_Training_1595@reddit

Wow you and I have a lot in common. I too am in sales and both US and EU and I deal with all kinds of these cartoon characters lol.

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AntisocialAnnie@reddit

Dude.

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Normal-Ad-1903@reddit

A 26 year old coworker was just discussing how he doesn’t feel grown up yet, and asked me (42) and another coworker (60) if it ever goes away and we both said “no”

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MonoMcFlury@reddit

Because "grown up" is all a lie we tell children because we still don't know what is going on most of the time. I always thought there would be like a switch or so, but nah, it's just acting grown up.

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101violations@reddit

Seriously, everytime I score a new contract, I'm like "hahahahaa suckers!"

My brain refuses to accept I'm a full on adult and respected professional. Lame!

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WasteOfBerries@reddit

Oh just wait, John Connor. You'll grow up soon.

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mzx380@reddit

Teenager in my forties . lol this hit close to home. I physically feel in my 40s but financially I’m still a teenager

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Much_Ad470@reddit

Shiiiii…I feel that 🥲

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FinancialReserve6427@reddit

in a provider or a Meg kind of way?

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PercentageRoutine310@reddit

Many of us are a bunch of 40 somethings with teenager/20 somethings' souls and minds. Just a '90s teenager but now stuck in the body of middle-aged people.

We are a generation where some us have Gen Alpha babies as grandchildren. I knew people in my high school with kids already. Having them at ages 16-17. I knew one who had a kid at 14 and the father was 13! Say they were born between 1979-1981, maybe their kids born in the mid 90s started having kids by 2010-2020.

Fuck, we are old.

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mvr363@reddit

Jesus I had to do a double take. Honestly thought this was me from the 90s. Looks just like me as a teen.

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ReflectedBinary@reddit

Same and I was born in the 90s, whoever's in that picture could be my doppelganger, I had that exact same table that's next to him. Also the small ear + long head + slight underbite lookin jaw despite not having an underbite. Really threw me for a second, but the fact that theres three of us in this threat that had the same reaction is more interesting

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tatanutz@reddit

Dude.......................................

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ashewinter@reddit

PTSD is a hel of a drug.

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MikeyRocks757@reddit

As a 48 year old who in many ways feels like a big kid, it makes me feel less weird knowing there are others lol

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Alphabet_Master@reddit

Not only is all kinds of shid being shoveled into our shoulders but Boomers are still here doing everything possible to keep us from being able to handle it financially.

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the_one_jt@reddit

Life insurance

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Substantial-Equal661@reddit

Feel this in my bones

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isssuekid@reddit

Are you sure that's not just a storm a brewin’?

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AffectionateFig5864@reddit

Could be signaling the end of a pointless foreign conflict. 🤷‍♀️

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Pile_of_AOL_CDs@reddit

We need to stop thinking like this. We are grown ass adults, we have been through multiple wars, economic downturns, and a pandemic and we are still here. We got this, we just need to step up.

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jstella118@reddit

I was just having this type of conversation with my friend. No one told me adulting would be like this. It looked so easy as a kid. I’m not the right person to be making some of these decisions!

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Pitiful-Value-3302@reddit

The expectations placed on us for success were disproportionate to the actual teaching our parents gave us. They had access to much more resources than we did

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New_Establishment554@reddit

Try being a teenager in your mid 50s

Ehhh?

no?

Didn't think so

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noiness420@reddit

I’m 32 and taking care of my parents, helping them pay bills and giving up my life to do so. Why do they trust me to do it? No one else can.

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stophittingyourself9@reddit

Geriatric parents in / out of hospital? Check. Higher needs child? Check. Expected to somehow manage it all? Somehow

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Proud-Negotiation-64@reddit

This is so real

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FatalBlossom81@reddit

That's why my family only consists of two cats

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AverageNeither682@reddit

Iguess I'M the man that wears the JNCOs in this house now.

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OkBaconBurger@reddit

Respect.

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MjolnirStone@reddit

And they remind me of both facts weekly.

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Dimplefrom-YA@reddit

i was a 40 year old in my teens. And unfortunately i’m still a 40 year old.

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johnvalley86@reddit

Not just my family but a bunch of my friends as well. Seems like I'm the latch pin that holds so many people's lives together and I don't even know how I got nominated to this position. I never asked for this, I've got my own shit to deal with just like everyone else.

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myka-likes-it@reddit

Damn. Why's you have to hit me so hard?

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33-3rpm@reddit

Thought it was just me.

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Fire_Tiger1289@reddit

I adopted cats. They’re easier to keep alive than kids and they’re cuter

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mcsweetin@reddit

Hahaha 😆

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kevlar51@reddit

This one’s hitting hard.

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Porsha_Goddess@reddit

this hit way too close 😭 i had a moment like this recently where i was handling something “adult” and halfway through i was like… wait why am i the responsible one here?? i still feel like i need supervision half the time 💀

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bored_silly_at_work@reddit

Xennials are pure magic. We can handle it

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Roy_G_Biv_87@reddit

Thank you for bringing this energy! I am here for it.

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PancakeProfessor@reddit

I literally had to zoom in to confirm that wasn’t a 30 year old picture of me. This whole scene looks almost identical to several old photos I have.

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SlaynArsewhole@reddit

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sator-2D-rotas@reddit

My heart is warmed to see a 30 Rock reference. And it’s back to numb now.

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Agreeable_Mouse6000@reddit

The realization that my dad is still a teenager in his 70s

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

Over the last couple years and especially after being a public servant in stressful positions for nearly two decades, my patience to debate anyone and/or have a quarrel in real life is basically down to zero (after being pretty damn good at it), and I am simply more content now in walking away from a situation than coming to any meaningful resolve.

My nearly 70-year old mother, on the other hand, has moved in the complete opposite direction and now feels the need to quarrel over everything under the sun, at least 3 times a day. Needless to say, we’re more often than not on poor terms because she can’t just allow me to follow through on a project for her (or other task which is in her best interest) without creating a debate or quarrel about it out of thin air, and I simply walk away from the task right as it’s getting started or leave it hanging when it’s barely halfway finished.

No arguing anymore and trying to change her mind about what I know best for the task at hand and getting through her brick wall, just shutting the operation down entirely and she can fret. Sorry, I tried.