You Know You Are Out of College When
- Your salary is less than your tuition.
- Your potted plants stay alive.
- Shacking in a twin-sized bed seems absurd.
- You keep more food than beer in the fridge.
- You have to pay your own credit card bill.
- Mac & Cheese no longer counts as a well-balanced
meal.
- You haven't seen a soap opera in over a year.
- 8:00 am is not early.
- You have to file your own taxes.
- You hear your favorite song on the elevator
at work.
- You're not carded anymore.
- You carry an umbrella.
- You learn that bachelor is a nice term for
"jackass".
- "Extended childhood" only really pertains
to your salary which is a little less than your allowance used
to be.
- "Twenty-something" means over-qualified,
under-paid and not married.
- Your friends marry instead of hook-up and
divorce instead of break-up.
- You start watching the weather channel.
- Jeans, flannels and baseball caps aren't
staples in your wardrobe.
- You can no longer take shots, and smoking
gives you a sinus attack.
- You go from
- 130 days of vacation time to 7.
- You stop confusing 401k plan with 10K run.
- You go to parties that police don't raid.
- Adults feel confortable telling jokes about
sex in front of you ... and they're no longer "adults" they are
your peers.
- You don't know what time Wendy's closes anymore.
- Your car insurance goes down.
- You refer to college students as kids.
- You drink wine, scotch and martinis instead
of beer, bourbon and rum.
- Your parents start making casual remarks
about grandchildren.
- You feed your dog science diet instead of
taco bell.
- Your idea of a rocking Friday night is scoring
one of the new releases at Blockbuster.
- Half your conversations with current college
students start with, "When I was in college..."