Starting to wonder why it’s even legal for me to just... do stuff without supervision.

[girlonthenet@mastodon.social]

I’ve signed legal documents. I own a boiler. I turn up to work and pay my internet bill and set the dishwasher to go overnight. And no one even checks whether I’m doing any of those things properly.

[feijoa@mastodon.org.uk]

@girlonthenet Adults should be responsible for the adulting.

[smellsofbikes@mastodon.social]

@girlonthenet isn't this the terror of adulthood: "wait I'm allowed to do all these awful things? Who thought this was a good idea?"

[girlonthenet@mastodon.social]

Every now and then the shock of adulthood hits me and I get this weird vertigo. Like I just realised I’m in a life boat adrift on an infinite ocean.

[girlonthenet@mastodon.social]

@feijoa exactly. Can’t be trusting me with it.

[dutchbarracuda@mastodon.social]

@girlonthenet Every now and then, just doing a mental list of people I know, friends and relations and the horrid realization hits like a tidal wave... I'm the adultiest adult that I know in my life.
Sheer horror.

[ifixcoinops@retro.social]

@girlonthenet I bought a fucking TABLE SAW and nobody even asked me if I was sure

[greem@cyberplace.social]

@girlonthenet I'm 55 and my brain is still 23. I've brought two kids up by making it up as I went along, and they're now reaching the point I was at when my brain ceased further development.

How is that allowed? There must be a law against it!

[girlonthenet@mastodon.social]

@ifixcoinops that is horrifying, you could have someone’s eye out.

[greem@cyberplace.social]

@ifixcoinops I bought a petrol chainsaw. From Tesco. Nobody tried to tell me this wasn't a good idea!

@girlonthenet

[timwardcam@c.im]

@girlonthenet The really REALLY big one is when the midwife waves bye-bye to you in the maternity hospital car park.

"WTF are we supposed to do now?" was our response.

[rey@toot.cat]

@ifixcoinops @girlonthenet see this bullshit? this driver license? this gives me authority to operate motor vehicles at speeds exceeding 100 kilometers *per hour*.

honestly what the fuck, I got tested once 30 years ago and it's just been "ohhh hey do this administrative thing every time you move across an arbitrary line on the map or 4 years pass"