What is a fun childish thing you still do as an adult?
For me, it's sticking my hand out of the window of a moving car. Whether I'm driving or not, I love having the windows down and waving my hand in the wind. I've loved it since I was a child and I'll never stop doing it!
I still ride my loaded grocery cart down the parking lot to my car after each trip. It’s the little things in life.
You've got the wheels right there, no reason not to use them.
Work smarter not harder.
Hell yeah! I thought I was the only person who did that. It's fun and efficient.
On a similar note, they make healies in adult sizes. Got a pair for my 21st as a gag gift, and ended up using them to walk my dog all the time. He's a lil guy, but hes a dense 15lbs of muscle and he could pretty easily pull me up to that "oh shit" speed.
I remember there being a guy in one of my college classes who’d roll down the aisle of the lecture hall on healies to his seat everyday. What a legend.
I love skating in the parking lot with an empty shopping cart! But since I had a little unhappy accident I'm a bit afraid of using a cart full of groceries.
I don't trust people who don't do this at least once per shopping trip.
Wait....adults don't do this? Shit, my parents always did, and I do because it's faster than walking xD
Walking/balancing on curbs, retaining walls, downed trees in the forest - pretty much anything.
Yeah, I do that too.
I did that 5 minutes ago when I went to get lunch.. Sometimes I worry people will think I'm a kid
Just say you’re doing parkour ;)
Yup. Do that too like when I'm walking through a parking lot or something. Keeps me feeling young!
Running up stairs on all fours, like a monkey I am 40 years old
It's just more efficient!
Me too bro. We all have a MONKE inside us.
It's not that often that I'm in a car I'm not driving anymore, but when I'm a passenger you can bet your ass I'm imagining a little ninja dude running along side the car, doing sick ninja flips over stuff on the side of the road.
I have summers off from work (am a teacher), which I COULD be using to get tons of errands done, renovating the house, working out, etcetc. However, I am currently spending it sleeping in, playing too many video games, staying up late, crafting, reading, etc, which is exactly what I did during summer as a kid as well. It's been nice :)
What kind of things do you craft?
Too many things, sporadically!
I tend to hop between different craft types randomly, depending on my current interest. But some of the ones I've enjoyed at various times the last year or so are crocheting (learning how to make little stuffed animals right now!!), watercolor and gouache painting, putting miniature kits together, origami, simple jewelry making, pottery, etc! :)
I don't get to do it much anymore, but watching cartoons on Saturday morning.
Oh man, Saturday morning cartoons just hit the spot! A bowl of cereal with the addition of a cup of coffee.
I discovered there’s giant 5 hour+ videos of entire Saturday morning cartoon blocks from all different networks from the 90s on YouTube. Complete with bumpers and vintage ads.
I have to be up early on Saturdays now because the baby doesn’t understand sleeping in so I put these on.
Mind sharing the name of the YouTube channel? Sounds like something future me needs tomorrow or Sunday morning :)
Sometimes when I drive into a roundabout I'll do a couple laps just for fun
I've never done this but reading this made me want to go do it next time!
Same! That roundabout happens to be right next to where we work on our racecar so it feels extra fun lol
when you go shopping, push off with your trolley and pull yourself up to go for a little ride down an empty isle. 40m and I still do it
Came here to post something similar. I'm in my 30s but can't resist going for a little "cart-ride" in the parking lot when going back to my car.
I could never get those damn things to go straight for very far.
It slows you down a bit too, but you can steer by using one of your feet to create a bit of drag on one of the rear wheels. It's pretty intuitive because left makes you go left and right makes you go right.
At home I exclusively go up-stairs on all fours
I had to start doing that when I got old
That's hilarious and I love it!!
Me and my wife (no kids) have recently decided to do the 'stuff you enjoyed being a kid' type outings. Such as dino parks, castles, zoos, theme parks.
If you are an adult having kids is usually how you end up in those places and we decided just to do those things for ourselves.
You know, I don't think I've ever thought about your second point. That's a pretty great idea!
Have fun! It's even better if you can pay attention and don't have to manage the short attention span of the kids.
Sandwich biscuits (like Oreo and the likes, but there are plenty local brands) are extremely popular among kids where I live. I still eat them, the same way as I did as a kid: split them in halves, eat the filling-less halves, and then join the halves with filling so I get to eat biscuits with 2x more filling.
Stepping on crunchy leaves
Can't help it either.. and when you get a real good one, that's all dry and super loud and crunchy... yes
Perfection 👌🏻
Same for crunchy dirt when it's cold enough but there's not too much snow
Balance on random things when I'm walking. Also imagine racing my cart sometimes when I'm at the store.
DINO NUGGETS
Those just hit different
Thr pterodactyls are the best.
Panther run up the stairs :3
Lol, gonna trying this again for old times sake
Running short distances for no particular reason. Like if I'm a short distance from the car and realize I forgot something in it, I'll run there and then run back.
Sometimes people are like "what's wrong?? why are you running??" and I'm just like why not? It's fun.
Mee too, preferably when no one watches though
Do you fling your arms back like Berry Goldberg?
Laser tag. Shit's great, the shine does get taken off somewhat when I do really well and rank top but all my opponents are small children and their parents look vaguely annoyed.
I did this one about three years ago with my niece for her birthday party and her friends. Just a few of us adults took part as everyone else thought it was too childish.
It felt great to scream and yell in the dark ... I became a squad leader, rounded up my team and got them to scream as loud as possible as we charged the enemy .. I also ran with my niece and ran cover for her .. had a total blast and I was completely exhausted at the end of it all. Nothing like playing games with a bunch of sugar intoxicated ten year olds.
I woke up the next morning and I couldn't stand up ... my thighs were completely crapped from having to crouch, walk and run for two hours the day before.
All completely worth it though.
I've found that I've been enjoying Archery Tag, also sometimes called Archery Games as a fun replacement for laser tag. It's basically dodgeball but with marshmallow tipped bows and arrows. Shits fun and great exercise.
Gotta do a visit with friends! :D
At home my main mode of locomotion is skipping, it's just fun, also it's faster than walking
ngl, skipping is nice..
47 and I still try to get out to a skatepark at least twice a week.
No idea how long I'm going to be able to do it, but I'm going to make every session count.
You'd be amazed. You'll probably be doing it up to 60, as long as you don't injur yourself.
So, as long as I don't don't injure myself.... in 37 years of skating....
Are there any other options I could consider? Cause that ship sailed a long time ago :)
Honestly though, while its forced me to change my style of skating, I enjoy it as much now as I ever have. Learning new tricks, getting a solid whole body work out, meeting and hanging out with new people, it's all still there.
Even though it's more of a stress reducer and to help me calm down, I like to snuggle and cuddle with my favorite stuffed rabbit. It also brings me back somewhat to when I was a kid and had tons of stuffed animals.
One of the girls I was dating forgot to hide her stuffed animals when I came over for a movie night. She was embarrassed, but I thought it was really sweet. It shows the more human aspect of people :)
When I started dating my current BF years later, and saw that he had two stuffed animals on his bed that he sleeps with each night, I knew he was a keeper!
That is really sweet. In the past, I've thought it was a little weird when adults have security blankets and stuffed animals they sleep with, but you are totally right that it shows their humanity. Everyone has a need to feel safe, especially at night, and if that comfort comes from a stuffed animal, so be it!
I still enjoy the movies and TV shows I watched as a kid. Doug, Hey Arnold, Brave Little Toaster, etc. They're great!
Brave Little Toaster is a masterpiece!!
For realsies, what a creative piece of art.
Don't step on the cracks!
Same here!
I do that regularly
Breaking hard-boiled eggs on my forehead when having visitors. I'm 40 something.
I like to knock on hard-boiled eggs to break them. Seems more polite.
I don't knock for noone.
I (38 m) still have a blanky I sleep with - mostly because my cat will only sleep in my bed if it's there, she will (mostly) only sit in my lap if it's there and she pretty much just hangs out in whatever room it's in... Yeah... It's her blankly, I'm just its mode of transport to make sure she hangs out with me.
It probally smells like you, so when you are there and the blankie is there, its like its 2x you, which is what she likes.
Splash in puddles
Every once in a while when I’m out grocery shopping, I’ll buy a coloring book, Silly Putty or Play-doh. They’re soothing distractions and the smell of the crayons, putty and doh really take me back.
Also, if I’m a passenger in a car and it’s raining, I still play the “rain drop race” game on the window. Good times.
Yes, the rain drop race! I'll exclaim accidentally and people I'm with just never seem to understand.
It’s the little things :)
oh yes, the smell of silly putty!
Holding a plate of food or a cup of coffee and pretending it is a spaceship flying through the air, dodging the chair, the table, the house plant, over the couch, down the canyon of the coffee table and chair and carefully up onto its landing pad at the end table. A few times I've had some near misses and hit a wing or the underbelly on an obstacle. Once or twice, I was witness to a terrible tragedy as I lost my ship as it spilled out onto the living room floor. Perhaps it was the lack of airplane noises that caused these terrible mishaps.
Holy moly me too!! Lol my wife is like really? Can’t help myself.
Happy to meet a fellow pilot. Don't over load your vehicle and keep your speed down. Stay safe out there .... Lol 😆
Buy stuffed animals. I sleep better when I have something soft to snuggle up against, and they work better than pillows since they're smaller, and also they're just very cute.
Watch marble races. Very entertaining
Check out treadmill races too!
Riding the grocery carts through the store if nobody is around to hit. Ive slammed into a display once, took almost 5 min to get it back together, and no employees came to help the entire time, but i dont blame them.
Costco is the best place to do this. Big heavy carts and huge parking lots for speed and distance. I always get a few smiles when people see a 40-ish year old man flying down the aisle.
Same man same
My freezer doesn't go a summer without freeze pops/ice pops and it never will.
Yes! I’m knocking at the door of 40 and a few times each summer I’ll accidentally cut the corners of my mouth on a freeze pop. Reminds me of being a kid.
I still make random noises for no reason
The reason is that it's fun.
Same. Sometimes I have to tell myself firmly to shut up and concentrate on what I'm doing, but I never listen.
Never used to do this until I got into linguistics and now I find myself sometimes just randomly trying to produce an unfamiliar phone. Recently it's often been [ʕ] or some pharyngealised consonants since I've been looking more into Arabic
They turn into random groans eventually or so I heard
Farts are hilarious.
Based
Eating candy whenever I god damn want to.
Until the doctor told me to cut some sugars...
Sorry man. I am sure I'll be there to eventually.
Listening to bedtime stories, well now its audiobooks but its just the best way to fall asleep
I’m a stay at home dad so I’m constantly playing house and building towers so my kid can knock them down. Good stuff.
Hold my breath going through tunnels. This really backfired when I was on vacation in Hong Kong and went through a hella long tunnel. Did not know what I was signing up for.
Finger drum
I do this all the time! Whenever I'm walking I'll finger drum on my phone and/or wallet that are in my pockets. Or on the desk at work to whatever song is playing on the radio.
I (47) still watch a lot of animation. Teen and up. Go back to Looney Toons now and again as well.
Me too... What surprises me is that I still enjoy them unlike other hobbies I had and lost the taste for.
TIL I must still be a child. I do most of the things mentioned.
I always wanted a cat, but my parents never let me. Now I have two, and getting a third.
Also, I always wanted to wear colourful, pastel jfashion or edgy goth clothes, but I had neither the money or the style and now I wear both daily (sometimes at the same time, I guess)
Also dessert as dinner, video games whenever and playing Simba with the cats.
The best thing about being an adult is the freedom to do what you weren't able to as a child imo.
The swings.
Some of my fondest memories are of swings. Not just from childhood either. I vividly remember an intense session in university, and another from only a few years back was special for a variety of reasons. And now, my daughter is just old enough to really start appreciating them. I don't think I'll stop swinging until I'm incapable.
a bit weird, as a kid I developed a habit of making "tape swords" by taking a long piece of clear tape and rolling it into a thin tube. I still do if if I find myself with a roll of tape, it's a good fidgeting tool.
Laugh at farts, fart noises, fart jokes. Farts are funny heh heh
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My grandma is nearly 90 years old and still laughs at farts until she's out of breath. Never gets old.
I developed very late. I didn't start laughing at farts until my late 20s. I missed some good years.
I drink A LOT of chocolate milk
My brother, careful of the diabeetus.
I like to crawl up stairs on all 4s when no-one is home.
I go into puddles on purpose
During spring time when snow is melting I like to dig small ditches to drain puddles and watch the water flow. Some of my mountain bike trips take twice as long because I can't help but stop for every nice puddle
EDIT: Also run! From my house to car or shed to house etc. I could walk but running is faster and more fun. I don't get why adults only run to excersice.
I did this at a beach recently, which had a slow trickle of water from a nearby wetland. I dug it out and made the little creek run into the ocean. My SO sat on a log and was watching me, amused x3
There's an even bigger one down the beach, but all the kids use that one and I feel a bit too self conscious as an adult to play in that one (unless I have a lot of friends who also would like to try!)
I like jumping in water puddles, been doing it for decades but I recently moved to a winter rainfall area so haven't had the balls
Handstands in the pool, 37 here