When was it when you realized you weren't a kid anymore?

[fuzzybuddy]

I was entering my 50s. I was charge nurse in a psych unit. There was an 18 year old male patient, who was part moose. He was not happy, and showed it. We had to restrain him to give him a shot of medication. My job was to hold one of his arms down. I just couldn't do it. As much as I tried to hold his arm still, he was way stronger than I. When the medication took effect, and we didn't have to restrain him any longer; one of the other nurse looked at me with a "what is wrong with you" look, I wasn't a kid anymore. So when it came to physical challenges, it was better for all concerned, that I let someone younger perform them.

 

[hollydolly]

I read this somewhere before...did you write this on the last forum?

 

[Trade]

It's interesting what memories certain phrases can trigger.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I was in my 30s.

I was reviewing job applications and came across a promising candidate that was born in the year that I graduated from high school.

 

[Ferocious]

When was it when you realized you weren't a kid anymore?

Hmmmm.....

When I started chasing after girls ...........instead of pulling their pigtails and them clouting me......

 

[Keesha]

I haven’t.

 

[jet]

yesterday when I got me zimmer out

 

[RadishRose]

Honestly, don't remember.

 

[rgp]

I realized I was of course aging ... by noticing the calendar. But i honestly felt my physical abilities held for the most part till about 65.....then i started noticing 'changes'.

 

[win231]

36 years ago when I turned 30. I remember thinking, 'wow....30....I could actually be somebody's FATHER.'

 

[jujube]

I'm still working on it. The 12-year-old inner child gets the 71-year-old outer hag in trouble on a regular basis.

 

[charry]

when i finally, kicked my ex out , aged 25, put up with him since i was 16 ....!

 

[StarSong]

A kid? Probably in my early thirties, but still considered myself young. I didn't give that up until I was in my fifties.

 

[Pepper]

When people my age, 18, were drafted to risk their lives and possibly forfeit them I realized although we may have felt like kids, we weren't.

 

[norman]

First when I registered for the draft (my uncles had war stories, some didn't talk about it) Second was when the young girls started calling me sir.

 

[Ruthanne]

You mean I aint a kid anymore.....

 

[JustBonee]

In my 20's, when I had kiddies of my own.

 

[C'est Moi]

When I went into labor with my firstborn. Suddenly, things "got real."

 

[norman]

I realized I was of course aging ... by noticing the calendar. But i honestly felt my physical abilities held for the most part till about 65.....then i started noticing 'changes'.

I started falling apart at 80, these Golden Years are killing me...

 

[Manatee]

Probably when I got my draft notice.

 

[applecruncher]

At 18 when I had to say goodbye to my mom in the parking lot after moving into a college dormitory.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

The day I got married. Physically, a few years ago when I really noticed I was slowing down and aches and pains set in.

 

[hypochondriac]

when I paid my first electricity bill

 

[Repondering]

Early 30's when I saw a photograph of myself and the camera told the truth.....I was really losing my hair.

 

[Gary O']

puberty

....and the lady next door