- You find yourself correcting colleagues and friends for not using “please” and “thank you.”
- You instinctively chop your own food into tiny pieces.
- You catch yourself humming “Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere…” while washing the dishes.
- You would gladly trade a limb for a brand-new, fully loaded minivan.
- A thrilling evening for you includes heading to Target solo on a Saturday night.
- You’ve attempted to re-roll an entire unraveled roll of toilet paper.
- You’ve had to pick between an extra ten minutes of sleep or facing the day without having showered.
- Staying up until 10 PM feels like a late-night adventure.
- Sleeping until 8 AM seems like a luxury.
- You find yourself spell-talking even in the absence of K-I-D-S, just to be safe.
- You’ve engaged in detailed conversations about poop as if you were detectives.
- You’ve hidden in a closet just to enjoy a cookie or a glass of wine without interruption.
- You automatically express pride to your partner after they successfully use the toilet.
- You’ve licked your fingers to clean something off your boss’s face.
- You believe it’s totally acceptable to flip children off as long as they can’t see you.
- You’ve had to scoop vomit out of your bra.
- You’ve spent an entire day walking around with someone’s barf on your back.
- There’s more food under your kitchen table than on it.
- You’ve removed things other than boogers from another person’s nostrils.
- If you and your partner feel more like a tag team of wrestlers or zookeepers than romantic partners, you might be a parent.
- You consider shaving your legs every two weeks to be frequent grooming.
- Other drivers have caught you belting out “Hakuna Matata” at a stoplight.
- The top rack of your dishwasher is filled with colorful plastic items, leaving no room for glasses.
- You can maintain an animated, one-sided conversation with a non-verbal object.
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