So what do you want to be when you grow up?

[gremcint]

listen asshole. I know you're trying to be funny but that's actually really goddamn condescending, not to mention nosy. I'm 30 years old and pay taxes tell me how I'm not grown up? or how about you let me look up your printer ink your too stupid to remember and have a big old glass of shut the fuck up?

[Food Lady]

That's the rudest way to say that that I've ever heard. I wouldn't even have a comeback for that.

[Monterey Jack]

"I want to be someone who isn't a rude asshole."

[RealUnimportant]

"I'm not sure; how about you?"

[BrenDAnn]

The only one who gets away with asking me that is my older, and taller (not that that takes much seeing as I'm only five feet tall) brother. If a customer asked? Death glare. Death glare for fucking days.

[Monterey Jack]

listen asshole. I know you're trying to be funny but that's actually really goddamn condescending, not to mention nosy. I'm 30 years old and pay taxes tell me how I'm not grown up?

More than once, I've had customers asking me what college I'm attending, or even when I'm graduating high school...and I turn 42 in less than two months! I mean, I suppose I should be flattered that I look young enough to be mistaken for a college student, but I don't even think it's my physical appearance they're reacting to so much as it's the train of thought that leads from "working in a supermarket" to "pimple-faced teenager working a summer job". And even if I was still a teenager, I'd still find it insulting.

[Teskeria]

Look at them real solemnly and say softly enough that no one else can hear "a serial killer. you have 'insert eye color'"
If they complain look puzzled and explain, when they asked what you wanted to be when you grew up you just said you were grown up and complimented their eyes.

[RangerJake72]

EVIL.......

[Arcus]

I heard this all the time when I worked in a mall. My response was "A kind and respectful person that doesn't say rude things to others while trying to be funny. I'm still working on it."

I know I should have gotten in big trouble for it, but no one ever complained.

[Enjis]

I heard this all the time when I worked in a mall. My response was "A kind and respectful person that doesn't say rude things to others while trying to be funny. I'm still working on it."

I know I should have gotten in big trouble for it, but no one ever complained.

Beautiful!

[BPFH]

The only one who gets away with asking me that is my older, and taller (not that that takes much seeing as I'm only five feet tall) brother.

Ah, thank you. Now I know what I can ask my sister to get back at her for last year's Facebook comment.

(Said comment was, "Wow, you're old." She's 10 years younger than me. And oddly enough, her birthday is in fact today.)

[Mriswith]

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Me: "Well, working here, I've noticed that a lot of grown-up are selfish, entitled asshats. I don't ever want to be like that, so I am refusing to grow up."

[LadyAndreca]

My usual reply is "That would require growing up". Occasionally, though, I feel wordy.

I will act my age when I am the same age that my great-grandmother and my husband's grandmother were when they started acting their ages. Which was about the time they were a little too dead to get into any more shennanigans.

[Cai1987]

That's right up there with "and this is what happens if you don't go to college!"

To which I always unapologetically replied, "No, this is what happens when you go to college without a solid career plan, can't find a degree-related job after graduation, and end up underneath $25k of student loans that you'll probably never pay off."

[gremcint]

That's right up there with "and this is what happens if you don't go to college!"

To which I always unapologetically replied, "No, this is what happens when you go to college without a solid career plan, can't find a degree-related job after graduation, and end up underneath $25k of student loans that you'll probably never pay off."

No this is what happens if you go to a for profit technical school, burnout, go back for programming but graduate in 2009 with a diploma and everyone wants a degree so you go back for that and end up with 70k of students loans. I'm standing over here with 2 bachelor degrees and 3 diplomas. I am waiting for someone to say that about me, oh god do I want to lay the epic level smackdown if any one makes a comment about me not going to college.