27. Is that a reasonable "adult" age? I still don't know. I think that a large part of people around this age range (give or take a few years either way) are suffering from this "I am not sure if I am an adult or still kind-of-a-kid" blues. I'm neither including or discluding myself in the group suffering from those blues. In the corporate world, I think this is an age where you struggle to be taken seriously and treated as any other "adult" employee.
So what qualifies us into entry of adulthood? Is it when we leave the nest? Can't be. I surely havent been an adult since I was 18. Is it when we graduate from college? That can't be it. Again, because I surely havent been an adult since I was 22. And I know plenty of middle aged folks that never went to college, and they aren't still "kinda" kids. Is it when we can agree that sometimes a weekend of sleeping a lot and cleaning is just as satisfying as binge drinking, waking up on a friends couch with fast food wrappers covering you? Maybe. That sounds more right than any of my other options.
Anyways, AT&T screwed up... something... and called me to tell me the mail they sent me got returned to them. This "mail" was my cell phone bill, which, of course, was conveniently due the day before they called me to tell me that they got the bill back. We had a little disagreement on whether or not I'd be paying late fees and I ended up winning (duh) and receiving a $5 credit for the inconvenience (double win). I haven't changed addresses in almost a year, and for the last 10 months my mail has made it to me, so what went wrong this month? Not sure. However, the woman on the phone asked how old I was. Really?? Perhaps she figured I was young, and instead of paying my bills squandered the money away for Natty Lite and late night runs to Taco Bell.
Oh, and the President of the company I work at just told me all the coffee I drink was going to stunt my growth.
Perhaps 27 isn't the age where you morph into a grown up.
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