An investigation into 'Adulting', a revolting term that is also perfect

A phenomenon in which the author may or may not have grown up

This week I may or may not have gone to someone’s house for the first time, for what must have been a very nice sit-down dinner, and I may or may not have ended up lying under the dining table, insisting that the hostess join me, and could she please pass me my glass while she was at it. This may or may not have been the most dignified and responsible of my actions that night. I won’t get into the rest of this entirely hypothetical story because my mother reads this column and she has weak lungs and she’s