I’m 30 and When I call my mom she acts annoyed af lmao . I will blow her phone up and on the 22nd call she answer and be like “damn what ?” ......like mom I’m just checking to see if you breathing geez !
Ohhhhh, NOT! Baby girl, my daughter is the same age and would text and call 14-15 times ... like I ain't have nothing to but answer the phone. Watch this ... SPAM BLOCK... boop! LOL She finally got a life and quit doing that.
Michelle Johnson 😂😂😂 I’m literally just checking to see if she’s alive lmao !!! When we were teenagers y’all would blow us up lol all in our business now y’all got things to do lmaoooo
As a kid: "No, not Marshall's! I hate Marshall's! Anywhere, but Marshall's! As an adult: Wondering when I can get some me time, so I can sneak off to Marshall's...
Ms. Cross nuh uh, FEDCO or Woolsworth on the west coast, was the worst, when I was a kid. That CHOKING coworkers, I felt that in my SPIRIT! Let me hit the numbers in the LOTTO, (go back to work, where???🤦🏾♀️)💃🏽👀🤗
As a kid, I loved the sound of jingling car keys and the thought of getting in the car and riding or finally getting my license to drive myself to ALL the places. NOW?! Shoot, I don't wanna drive or ride nowhere! For why, to drink up all this expensive gas and run my car down?! NOPE!
As a child I didn’t give a second thought to what goes into making fooood. Until I became an “adult “ and realized that not only do you need oil, a skillet and the raw chicken to make fried chicken 🍗 😒😒🙄🙄 but you neeeeed to purchase flour and spices because they don’t come with the kitchen cabinets....... I’m gonna go take a nap 😑😑😑
Me: looks through all packs of chicken prices to find cheapest one Also me: 4.98 for some spices, ooooo I may not be oh nevermind found a 1.98 one 😂🤣😂🤣
Low key having a mom that didn’t speak English, prepared me for adulthood. I was 12 on the phone with companies pretending to be my mom and asking why our bills were so high.
My dad had my mom do this because he sounded black...which he was. Wouldn't give him the time but my mom...for sure! As a teenager being on the phone with a magazine subscription I needed to cancel "you don't want me to get my mom on the phone..." 🤣
As a kid: Momma turn off that old school music. As an adult, momma turn on some Isley Brothers, The Whispers, Earth Wind and Fire while we start on Sunday Dinner.
When I was a kid, I used to hate when night time came because everything was so quiet & everyone had to go to sleep! I couldn’t wait until morning came so everything could be active & alive again! Now, I can’t wait until night fall because I enjoy the peace & quiet & I want to cry every time my alarm goes off in the mornings because I know it’s time to get up & adult all over again! Lol
When my mama tried to tell my 16 year old self about my no good boyfriend, I would say to myself...”She just mad she ain’t got no man” Lol I can’t believe I used to think that! I’m sorry mama! Now I wish I had crossed the street the 1st time I saw him coming.
Me as a kid: uuugghh I'm bored I'm tired of being in the house! Adult me: sh$t I'm tired I cant wait to go home. Telling my kids yall ain't got to go nowhere every weekend.
I just think we need to ress and care for ourselves, because our children don’t, Entergy don’t, water company don’t, medical bills don’t, and all the insurances we pay to take care of us don’t.
I see in the comments someone said something about a washer and dryer. Yea see folks take stuff like that for granted. Growing our washer and dryer got reppoed a couple of times. Lights was off for a day or two. Didn't understand why my couldn't just pay the bill. Now as an adult my main bills get paid first: rent, lights, carpayment. I understand now...when it comes to certain bills getting paid or not paid cause you really just don't have it. Getting paid every two weeks 😣 is a struggle..
Why can't I give this two thumbs up? Look, I used to miss days of work because I didn't have enough gas money to get to work. They weren't paying me enough to get to them.
I used to say “when I’m older and have kids I’m never gonna spank my kids”. Girl I didn’t mean it, some time they need a Good reminder how to act right. Let me remind you I’m a mother of FOUR YES 4 Daughters that’s all I gotta say LoL haha
4 girls?!! Bless your heart. My mom had 4 girls. I don't know how she survived us. Hang in there, it's heaven after the teen years and amazing once you start getting grands. I recently read "grand children are your reward for raising your children." Sooo true!
As a child I was very happy to know that I was brought up right by my strong black grandma because as an adult and a mother I am a very strong black adult and blessed mother
So I'm 30 now born in 89. I never had that mind frame of wanting to grow up to fast. I was cool.with being a kid. Iwill say age 13-18 I didn't understand why older family member and church members worked like alllll the time. We were a church family like heavy in the church. Always doing something and traveling. I started working at 21 as a CNA at a nursing home and that's only cause I wanted a car. Bills, lack of money, maintaining a home, lack of, sleep, anxiety, depression. Having to work all the dame time are things they need to prepare these kids for cause this life thang is something else. Off days and having money after paying the main important bills are a luxury.
My oldest sister would tell me as a kid that she worked to get money. Then she used that money to gas up her car. Then she used her car to go to work. Then she worked to make money. I was like.... “but u gotta have money for yourself,” and she just shook her head. I thought she was crazy....but as an adult.....I.....*voice cracks* I completely understand now....*ugly cries* it’s true!
The sleep part was ME! When I was young I don't wanna go to sleep, now that I'm older I can't wait to go to sleep, and I feel like giving some of my coworkers some of these hands too
Driving, I couldn't wait to drive My mom: your going to get tired of driving Me:no I'm not Now I can't stand driving and my son got his permit at 15 YES Me: you want to drive Him: No Me: WTF
Lawd!! If EJ ain't telling the truth! 👏💯 So damn true! 😂 Threatening to run away was a weekly thing for me but I lived in NYC and most of the time, I did the threatening during the school year. Now, I don't know if anyone understands but the winters in NYC can be BRUTAL. So as I stated, it was only a threat bc it was too damn cold outside to be serious n my parents knew that - wasted words smh 😕😅. Another thing said was *when I grow up, I am not raising my children the way U raised me - I'm gonna give my children everything they want* ...... I lied!! 😅
I used to be so embarrassed when my mom used coupons. I would be like "Why are you using coupons" Now I check for coupons before I go to the store. I'm signed up for the rewards cards and take advantage of the specials.
“I just wish somebody had just told me, I just wish” we had groceries, lights now I wish someone would pay for them. I didn’t MEAN IT!! No vegetables, when you’re constipated you wish for vegetables and water. I didn’t MEAN IT!!! Ej gurrl you Got Me! 😂😂😂. I tried running away from home ONE TIME! My Mom told me to take off my clothes and shoes and leave! I didn’t buy any of them so.....I went in my room crying for the rest of the night! 😂😂😂. I DIDN’T MEAN IT! 😂😂😂
Riiiight!!! I HATED ALL green vegetables growing up. My mom spoiled & catered to me (her 1st born and only girl) made separate sides for me if I didn't like what she was cooking. Now I can't wait to eat vegetables and drink my water for my health AND regularlarity/nutrition!!😮🙊🥦🥗
So true. As a kid we don't know responsibility only freedom now as an adult we have all the responsibility and accountability in order to have freedom/comfort. As a kid I thought being cut off from playing on the computer all day was cruel but being on the computer unless it is for work now I feel that the whole day was wasted because a girl got things to do. Keep doing your thing Ej you bring truth with a relatable and entertaining perspective! 😃
I remember going to the store with my dad and he wouldn't buy me something I wanted & I said "when i have kids im gona buy them whatever they want."... 5 kids later that statement makes me giggle
I never understood why my momma always yelling about "close the door, stop wasting my air" or "cut them lights off, I don't work for the electric company". Last month our electric bill was $740😫 For one month! I was ready to fight everyone in the house. Lol.
I remember when I bought my first car right before getting my first apartment. I called my momma on the first; not to ask for money, but to say I'm sorry and thank you!! Rent, car payment, car insurance (at 20, it was expensive), lights, groceries, car maintenance, etc. My mom laughed her azz off and asked if I was going shopping with my friends this weekend! Man!! I was in the military. Thankfully the apartment came furnished, but I did buy my own bed, tv, dishes, decorations, etc. I love being an adult, but it was a shock!
Yep it’s the nap thing. I need my ress!! I never wanted to go to bed cause I thought I might miss something. Now, a party can kiss my (bleep!!!!) I used to sneak out of the house to go to a party. Now I sneak out of a party to go home and by home I mean bed.
I told my dad that I was running away. He told me “Walk, don’t run. You might get tired and decide to come back.” I stomped back up the stairs to my room. I wasn’t giving him the satisfaction. 😂🤣
I can’t believe how much I need sleep and hate “peopleing” now. I don’t want to drive nowhere now!😂. I wake up for work sometimes. And just get back in the bed. Because my “spirit” said “no”. I can’t do it today. I can’t work and “people”.
OMG! 😂😂 I'm feeling this so deeply as a kid AND as a parent of grown kids! ❤️❤️❤️ I just found this channel and it is like sitting around with my sisters! I love this woman.
I never understood why my mom kept yelling at me to turn off lights when I left the room. Then I got a light bill. I unplug everything when I leave this house!
I promise I had this conversation with my parents last year, “so all that time y’all didn’t know what you were doing” 😂 I really thought people in their 30s knew everything. Now that I’m in my 30s I realize that we’re all doing the best we can and no one knows what they’re doing.
(I’m a child) and what I always say to my mama is, “when I get grown, in my own house, that I pay the bills in, and u wanna come over, oh you finna wash all them dishes THAT I MAKE, and if you don’t like it, u can go back home She said: Boy bye, I said the same thing about your granddaddy and when I go to his house I’m still washing dishes
Ress yes hunnie i need that!!! I am cracking up you nailed all of it. I just told my grandson he better enjoy childhood. I know what i said!!!💀💀💀 As kid I: can't wait to get my own place.
I was a weird kid. I LOVED naps and vegetables (still do) and I wasn’t in a hurry to “be grown.” My mom was like, “Being grown isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Grown ups pay bills and go to work. They have to take care of themselves,” I never thought I’d be as stressed as I am as an adult. Some things in life did not pan out the way I’d like, but that’s for another video, though.
As a kid, I thought people in college were so mature and put together, and I couldn't wait to get to that age to be on my own. Now that I'm 30, I look at kids about to graduate at 22, like that is SO young! Also did not realize how expensive things were until I had to pay for them. I get excited when gas is less than $2.00, my favorite foods are on sale, and my favorite clothes brands are doing semi-annual sales, so I can get more than a shirt or pair of jeans.
Speak Ej Speak!!! lol.😂😂 As a kid: I cant wait to get married and have my own kids and give them everything you denied me. As an adult: I've been divorced...twice. I have 4 grown kids in their mid/late 20s spolied rotten! I hate when my phone ring.
I never really thought that way but man being adult everyday I just say I just can't today I can't adult anymore. My youngest said I'm leaving mom my response was okay bye and I opened the door for him and I said by the way take everything you bought oh wait you don't have a job. His face was priceless like OMG she's crazy then he just walks away and didn't say anything else about it. 😂😂😂😂
LAADDYY you cracks me UP. Yes to everything you mentioned. Cant wait to make your own money so you didnt have to ask. Now I have to work for the little money I get to pay the high bills. To only have the responsibility of washing dishes, cleaning your room and HELPING to clean the house really dont seem so bad. Keep the videos coming.
The food. I remember me and my big sis swearing how we would never have veggies in our kitchens once we were grown and finally free. Yeah, I felt that. And the sleep. Oh Lawd the sleep.
What my mother did to annoy me: Me: "Momma, I'm hungry" Mommy: "Hey Hungry, I'm Marianna, nice to meet you" ... (while reaching out to shake my hand as if we have never met) Me: Quitely, you know below that mute level..."She play too much, I can't stand her"
I said (To myself) as soon as I turn 18 I'm out of here. At 19 my dad found a room for me to rent since I didn't want to go to collage and I was happy to work a part time job. When my whole check went to the rooms rent and there was no money for food. I got my butt in school. Learned to eat vegetables and anything that was given to me.
Nevermind that this whole video is accurate, but shout out to you for knowing the group Subway (hardly anyone remembers them)!! I loved the other song they had too, "Fire"!
OMG! You must have read my soul before you did this video! I am truly in a struggle right now with my adulthood. I used to say " I can't wait to be 21, and I can't wait to leave this house and family." 21 came and went like thief in the night now all of a sudden I'm 38! 😱😱😱😱😭😭😭. I really did call the police on my mom for a wellness when she didn't answer the 10th time. Turns out my phone was on private amd we know black folks don't answer those call 😂😂. Police showed up tho! Lastly, when you hit that Subway tho! VOCALS! Great video Ma'am! ❤❤❤
Say it, Sis! LOL! My kids don’t understand how I can choose a nap over a meal. I would wake up refreshed, but my backbone be pulling in my belly button from the inside😒🤦🏽♀️
Girlllll….. I’ve been hollin! Took me all the way back…. What I wouldn’t do to just pay that water bill! 😂😂😂 I had no idea…. But wouldn’t change the experience because it made me the woman I am today! Just found you on UA-cam and I’m lovin your videos! Too funny ❤️❤️❤️😂
Me as a kid "I'M BORED!"
Me as an adult: daily goal to lay on bed and do absolutely nothing.
Big facts!!!
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PREACH!!!
Yup that's me.
#number one fact
As a kid I used to say "When I get grown I ain't NEVAH going to church NO MO'!!!!" Now I call on Jesus every 34 seconds.
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Preach that truth Sis!!! Whooo Lawd...
Amen🙌🏾
As a kid: "I hate this house!"
As an adult: "Oh! This place has a washer/dryer hookup INSIDE. That's classy."
TRUUUUUUUUUUUTH!!! Lol
One of the best/truest comments I’ve seen so far!😂🤣😂😂
Yeeees🤷🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
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As a Kid: She old, at 41
As an adult: I's 40 and Fabulous!
Yeeees girl we are fabulous!!
42 ...girl yaaasssss
Almost 38 and not far behind. I'm more comfortable and confident with myself than ever.
41 and I'm the most attractive as I've ever been. And I love myself, that took a while 🤗
Nisha Shu, I just turned 50, and I’m LOVING IT!!!!! ❤️
Me as a child: “I don’t need nap time!”
Me as an adult: “Truth is I’m ti’ed” (Yes I’m too exhausted to pronounce the ‘r’. I need all of my ress!)
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I heard it in Tamela's voice too!
I can't 😂🤣
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Yessssssssss!!! #adultnaptime
Young me: why can't I talk to boooyysss?!
Now: these men is nasty. Mommy you were right 😂
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I second that!
Oh yes. That was probably why I fought those boys the way I did as a young girl.
@@AuthorLHollingsworth Yes
😂 😂 😂 I laughed so hard this is true... Just nasty
Me, "I'm bored!"My mom" GO READ A BOOK!"🤮Now my goal on my vision board is to have the time to curl up with a good book!!!!!😆😇
Exactly! Lol
Deep!! 100%
Even though I was a reader as a kid, my adult self misses having time to read.
star82 fall when I said mom told there was no such thing as being bored only boring people now go outside!! 😂
@@serenityjoy1872 me too!!!!! Miss that free time soooooooo much!!!📖📚
I’m 30 and When I call my mom she acts annoyed af lmao . I will blow her phone up and on the 22nd call she answer and be like “damn what ?” ......like mom I’m just checking to see if you breathing geez !
Girl she need her peace!! 🤣😂
Ohhhhh, NOT!
Baby girl, my daughter is the same age and would text and call 14-15 times ... like I ain't have nothing to but answer the phone.
Watch this ... SPAM BLOCK... boop! LOL
She finally got a life and quit doing that.
Michelle Johnson 😂😂😂 I’m literally just checking to see if she’s alive lmao !!! When we were teenagers y’all would blow us up lol all in our business now y’all got things to do lmaoooo
Oh my Momma gets an earful if she doesn’t answer my call or text! I am the light of ur life Ma’am, how dare u ignore me 😤😂
Tacarra M exactly WE STAND ! Lol !!
"Find somewhere and sit down"... my dad always said that to me. I'm 33 with a baby, husband and I'd love to sit down somewhere
🤣 thats all i wanna do!!!
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🤣😂😂🤣 that’s it!
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As a kid: "No, not Marshall's! I hate Marshall's! Anywhere, but Marshall's!
As an adult: Wondering when I can get some me time, so I can sneak off to Marshall's...
Who the fuck raised you to hate Marshall's? That store is the SHIT!!!
MelaneyV i love marshall’s (i’m a teen)
Sears was my most hated store to shop. 🙄🤦🏽♀️
Lol
Ms. Cross nuh uh, FEDCO or Woolsworth on the west coast, was the worst, when I was a kid.
That CHOKING coworkers, I felt that in my SPIRIT! Let me hit the numbers in the LOTTO, (go back to work, where???🤦🏾♀️)💃🏽👀🤗
Remember do you have McDonald’s money 💵. We got ground beef and bread 🍞 at the house that’s your McDonald’s. 😂🤦🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤬
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🤣😂as a child I used to hate eating bread slices with burgers, like dang why can't we have buns, bread would get soggy at times🤣
Raymond is that your picture in your profile? Your body is banging!
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Yes indeed no filters
@@raymondnichols36 Hey boo Hey👏👏😍😍😍🙄.Verry Nice!
I couldn't wait to be grown..... and now here I am almost 36 with 2 kids questioning my life choices....
Michelle Woolfolk 😂😂😂😂
Michelle Woolfolk lmao
You fuqed up
😂😂😂😂 me too child almost 34 trying to figure out why me and hubby thought it was cool to get pregnant again like girl what???!
@@CrystalRWilliams you fuqed up too.
I can’t even put nothing in here cause we clearly sisters and grew up in the same house 😩😩🤣🤣🤣
Ikr!!!
“I mumbled under my breath right below the mute level because my momma didn’t play that” type😂😂😂
SO ME! I ALREATY KNEW👀😳
Yeah that's how my single mom in Alabama was, a too! "Mommy don't play that", like In living Color 🙂
Hahaha that was funny
As a kid, I loved the sound of jingling car keys and the thought of getting in the car and riding or finally getting my license to drive myself to ALL the places. NOW?! Shoot, I don't wanna drive or ride nowhere! For why, to drink up all this expensive gas and run my car down?! NOPE!
As a child I didn’t give a second thought to what goes into making fooood. Until I became an “adult “ and realized that not only do you need oil, a skillet and the raw chicken to make fried chicken 🍗 😒😒🙄🙄 but you neeeeed to purchase flour and spices because they don’t come with the kitchen cabinets....... I’m gonna go take a nap 😑😑😑
Yup!!
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Me: looks through all packs of chicken prices to find cheapest one
Also me: 4.98 for some spices, ooooo I may not be oh nevermind found a 1.98 one
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Girl, forget NAPS now it SLEEP SLEEP for me.
As a kid I did not like to be in the house alone.
As an adult I look forward to and cherish every second of alone time.
Giiirl absolutely, Soon as my children are off to school its peace peace peace
Girl!!! I pulls that wine out, throw on some 80s/90s R/B.....HEAVEN i tell you!
MrsVirgi47 being home alone is an outing to me now.. I get so excited
@@SB-jt1ur guuuurl im with u on that!! When my hubby take them to school I be so happy!!
Ain't no time like me time!!!
As a kid: I was tryna to go to any event with food
Now: I'm like, girl we got food at the house, I'm not impressed
I thought I would never say that.
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I know that's right!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Also, as a kid I wasn't concerned about who was making the food. Now I'm very concerned. I need a nameplate at every dish at the potluck.
Low key having a mom that didn’t speak English, prepared me for adulthood. I was 12 on the phone with companies pretending to be my mom and asking why our bills were so high.
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Wow
Girl I can relate. I was doing this at the age of 16 tough really
So can relate!!! I had to order through the drive thru at like 10. I had to sign my own behavior sheets!
My dad had my mom do this because he sounded black...which he was. Wouldn't give him the time but my mom...for sure! As a teenager being on the phone with a magazine subscription I needed to cancel "you don't want me to get my mom on the phone..." 🤣
As a kid: Momma turn off that old school music. As an adult, momma turn on some Isley Brothers, The Whispers, Earth Wind and Fire while we start on Sunday Dinner.
When I was a kid, I used to hate when night time came because everything was so quiet & everyone had to go to sleep! I couldn’t wait until morning came so everything could be active & alive again! Now, I can’t wait until night fall because I enjoy the peace & quiet & I want to cry every time my alarm goes off in the mornings because I know it’s time to get up & adult all over again! Lol
Yeees sis, im in the bed by like 7 on weekends. I needs my rest!!
Gurrrllll. I want the lights AWFFF. My son turn the lights on in the daytime, he gets fussed out on the regular.
Sharita Martin 😂😂😂 exactly
Me to.
When my mama tried to tell my 16 year old self about my no good boyfriend, I would say to myself...”She just mad she ain’t got no man” Lol I can’t believe I used to think that! I’m sorry mama! Now I wish I had crossed the street the 1st time I saw him coming.
Girrrr!
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Crossed the street???? Honey, set up a barricade with the cement barriers and have the men and women with bull horns shouting NO, don't do IT!!
@@beesknees213 (lol) All I thought about was the Color Purple movie. “No, Sophia..”😂🤣 Madea. “Don’t do it. Don’t do it.”
I'd be a teen all over again but just keep the wisdom I have now 😭
Nomaswazi Madi im a teen girl , Im quite mature and have the wisdom but I know there’s more to come When I’m an adult😂🤷🏾♀️
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Me as a kid: uuugghh I'm bored I'm tired of being in the house!
Adult me: sh$t I'm tired I cant wait to go home. Telling my kids yall ain't got to go nowhere every weekend.
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As a kid: Momma, why we always gotta go to the thrift store?
As an adult: Are you a VIP here? There is 25% off today.
Me: Yes!
I just think we need to ress and care for ourselves, because our children don’t, Entergy don’t, water company don’t, medical bills don’t, and all the insurances we pay to take care of us don’t.
Truth!
I see in the comments someone said something about a washer and dryer. Yea see folks take stuff like that for granted. Growing our washer and dryer got reppoed a couple of times. Lights was off for a day or two. Didn't understand why my couldn't just pay the bill. Now as an adult my main bills get paid first: rent, lights, carpayment. I understand now...when it comes to certain bills getting paid or not paid cause you really just don't have it. Getting paid every two weeks 😣 is a struggle..
Doesn't it suck when that understanding hits you? 🤣😨😭
Right?!...the washeteria!
Why can't I give this two thumbs up? Look, I used to miss days of work because I didn't have enough gas money to get to work. They weren't paying me enough to get to them.
Yes the struggle is very much real
Ej you and your husband need a tv show, I could see y'all on bouncetv
Only because buying cable is not an option 🤷♀️It's 2020☺️
I used to say “when I’m older and have kids I’m never gonna spank my kids”. Girl I didn’t mean it, some time they need a Good reminder how to act right. Let me remind you I’m a mother of FOUR YES 4 Daughters that’s all I gotta say LoL haha
4 girls?!! Bless your heart. My mom had 4 girls. I don't know how she survived us. Hang in there, it's heaven after the teen years and amazing once you start getting grands. I recently read "grand children are your reward for raising your children." Sooo true!
4 boys here and they are all bigger than me.
Kids Incorporated😭😂🤣 That was my ish. Where did my childhood go? 😓🧐
Mines too 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
K...I...D..S YEAH!
Yes! That was my show. After school, that and Mickey Mouse Club.
“We finally made it! With KIDS In-cor-por-a-ted!
y esss lol
I remember as a child, I HATED for anybody to tell me what to do. Now, can SOMEBODY tell me what to do AND do it for me?
Back in the day i couldnt wait to get out of the house and now i cant wait to get home dont wanna go nowhere.lol
When she said "beat your family home so you can take a nap." That's ME!
Gurl , I need a nap more than a honeybun and a Coke! That line is Me 😂 I love naps. You are so awesome!!!
I DON'T regret being in a hurry to move out. My grandmother was NO SWEET lady! 🙄🤦🏾♀️
As a child I was very happy to know that I was brought up right by my strong black grandma because as an adult and a mother I am a very strong black adult and blessed mother
So I'm 30 now born in 89. I never had that mind frame of wanting to grow up to fast. I was cool.with being a kid. Iwill say age 13-18 I didn't understand why older family member and church members worked like alllll the time. We were a church family like heavy in the church. Always doing something and traveling. I started working at 21 as a CNA at a nursing home and that's only cause I wanted a car. Bills, lack of money, maintaining a home, lack of, sleep, anxiety, depression. Having to work all the dame time are things they need to prepare these kids for cause this life thang is something else. Off days and having money after paying the main important bills are a luxury.
My oldest sister would tell me as a kid that she worked to get money. Then she used that money to gas up her car. Then she used her car to go to work. Then she worked to make money.
I was like.... “but u gotta have money for yourself,” and she just shook her head.
I thought she was crazy....but as an adult.....I.....*voice cracks* I completely understand now....*ugly cries* it’s true!
😂😂😂 Yes it is! 😭😭😭
I felt this in my soul. I'm tied of adulting at this point.
Lmao!!
Ok. Like when I have extra money I be like "which bill I forgot to pay" 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@zontroiralexander7177 I laughed out loud!
Let's start a support group y'all 😭😭😭.
It’s still a cute duster....
😂😂😂😂Thanks!
Agreed!
Ejspeaks when are you getting your Netflix special? I’m ready to see your name in everyone’s homes !!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Too funny...Yes vegetables and water..Chiiiile..And yes, I hit my alarm 100 times.
I LOVED that song she was singing..took me back! Yes, girl! Lol
Yeah but that song was fresh as hell when you really listen to it that and I got the munchies by immature
You know she was serving us vocals.👀🤣😂
The sleep part was ME! When I was young I don't wanna go to sleep, now that I'm older I can't wait to go to sleep, and I feel like giving some of my coworkers some of these hands too
Driving, I couldn't wait to drive
My mom: your going to get tired of driving
Me:no I'm not
Now I can't stand driving and my son got his permit at 15 YES
Me: you want to drive
Him: No
Me: WTF
Lol
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Also we didn’t think about traffic , road rage 🚗 😡 and gas ⛽️
Ooh, every morning I tell my alarm clock to SHUT UP with attitude! Knowing good and well I set the darn thing!
Yes, adulting is for the birds!!!
Lawd!! If EJ ain't telling the truth! 👏💯
So damn true! 😂 Threatening to run away was a weekly thing for me but I lived in NYC and most of the time, I did the threatening during the school year. Now, I don't know if anyone understands but the winters in NYC can be BRUTAL. So as I stated, it was only a threat bc it was too damn cold outside to be serious n my parents knew that - wasted words smh 😕😅. Another thing said was *when I grow up, I am not raising my children the way U raised me - I'm gonna give my children everything they want* ...... I lied!! 😅
“I’ll take a nap over a honeybun and a coke” 😂😂😂😂 Me too sis 🙌🏾
I used to be so embarrassed when my mom used coupons. I would be like "Why are you using coupons" Now I check for coupons before I go to the store. I'm signed up for the rewards cards and take advantage of the specials.
“I just wish somebody had just told me, I just wish” we had groceries, lights now I wish someone would pay for them. I didn’t MEAN IT!! No vegetables, when you’re constipated you wish for vegetables and water. I didn’t MEAN IT!!! Ej gurrl you Got Me! 😂😂😂. I tried running away from home ONE TIME! My Mom told me to take off my clothes and shoes and leave! I didn’t buy any of them so.....I went in my room crying for the rest of the night! 😂😂😂. I DIDN’T MEAN IT! 😂😂😂
Riiiight!!! I HATED ALL green vegetables growing up. My mom spoiled & catered to me (her 1st born and only girl) made separate sides for me if I didn't like what she was cooking.
Now I can't wait to eat vegetables and drink my water for my health AND regularlarity/nutrition!!😮🙊🥦🥗
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@@qianatierra omg im with ya! First born and only girl here!!
With a four year old and a husband who acts as if he is a child, I need several naps per day but in the real world that's not how it works.
Yes adulting is so overrated. Lmao...damn bills
So true. As a kid we don't know responsibility only freedom now as an adult we have all the responsibility and accountability in order to have freedom/comfort. As a kid I thought being cut off from playing on the computer all day was cruel but being on the computer unless it is for work now I feel that the whole day was wasted because a girl got things to do. Keep doing your thing Ej you bring truth with a relatable and entertaining perspective! 😃
Your doing thing girl!!! Thanks for all the content and the continued improvements to video quality
She said Kids Incorporated and I felt my age really kick in 😩😩 Hold me sweet Jesus
I remember going to the store with my dad and he wouldn't buy me something I wanted & I said "when i have kids im gona buy them whatever they want."... 5 kids later that statement makes me giggle
EJ needs to be on A Black Lady Sketch Show. This girl's comedy is 🔥🔥🔥
Siretha Buggs yessss I can see her being a part of the cast😊
Do they have a hashtag because you are 100% right
I never understood why my momma always yelling about "close the door, stop wasting my air" or "cut them lights off, I don't work for the electric company". Last month our electric bill was $740😫 For one month! I was ready to fight everyone in the house. Lol.
Yessss! We hit those sevens too. I'm on my third month having to make a payment plan for the electric bills 😫
Lord Jesus $700 😥😢 ok I'll pay my $198.00 and not complain. Thank you ladies for the wake up 🤞🏽
I would've flat lined. I was upset about a light bill that was almost $200. I'll take $200 over $740 any day.
I remember when I bought my first car right before getting my first apartment. I called my momma on the first; not to ask for money, but to say I'm sorry and thank you!! Rent, car payment, car insurance (at 20, it was expensive), lights, groceries, car maintenance, etc. My mom laughed her azz off and asked if I was going shopping with my friends this weekend! Man!! I was in the military. Thankfully the apartment came furnished, but I did buy my own bed, tv, dishes, decorations, etc. I love being an adult, but it was a shock!
Yep it’s the nap thing. I need my ress!! I never wanted to go to bed cause I thought I might miss something. Now, a party can kiss my (bleep!!!!) I used to sneak out of the house to go to a party. Now I sneak out of a party to go home and by home I mean bed.
Yesss...me too!
I told my dad that I was running away. He told me “Walk, don’t run. You might get tired and decide to come back.” I stomped back up the stairs to my room. I wasn’t giving him the satisfaction. 😂🤣
😂🤣😂🤣
Screaming ctfuuuuu
Good one
I always knew adulthood was a scam😂😂😂I used to say to my mother "mom I don't want to grow up, like never "
The Adults working at Toys R Us....Tried to Tells us, with their jingle!
I can’t believe how much I need sleep and hate “peopleing” now. I don’t want to drive nowhere now!😂. I wake up for work sometimes. And just get back in the bed. Because my “spirit” said “no”. I can’t do it today. I can’t work and “people”.
OMG! 😂😂 I'm feeling this so deeply as a kid AND as a parent of grown kids! ❤️❤️❤️ I just found this channel and it is like sitting around with my sisters! I love this woman.
I never understood why my mom kept yelling at me to turn off lights when I left the room. Then I got a light bill. I unplug everything when I leave this house!
I couldn’t wait to become a Mom!!!! Now I have a teenager 🤦🏻♀️😱😰🥴
Wow been there....good luck with th mood swings 😁🥰☹😤😭😡🥺🤯🤖👶🏾
Bless ur heart! Lol
@@vaughnettemonroe283 GUUUURL!!!!!
I have four teenagers. Let us pray.
cynthiaholland13, Sending prayers
I promise I had this conversation with my parents last year, “so all that time y’all didn’t know what you were doing” 😂 I really thought people in their 30s knew everything. Now that I’m in my 30s I realize that we’re all doing the best we can and no one knows what they’re doing.
You always make my day. So funny. Yesss to all of it!!
Listen…. I pray DAILY for a chance to take a nap! Any chance I get imma be somewhere getting some RESS!
(I’m a child) and what I always say to my mama is, “when I get grown, in my own house, that I pay the bills in, and u wanna come over, oh you finna wash all them dishes THAT I MAKE, and if you don’t like it, u can go back home
She said: Boy bye, I said the same thing about your granddaddy and when I go to his house I’m still washing dishes
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🤣🤣🤣 she tried to warn you lol. I clean my dad's house automatically like I'm on auto pilot.
I'M 51 & YOU SPOKE THE TRUTH MY SISTER.
Kid me: nap time? Ok “zzzzz”
Adult me: nap time? Ok “zzzzzzzzzzzzz....dammit it’s 3hrs later”
Literally did that today
Why are u telling my business 🤣🤣🤣
I remember thinking that but my mother passed away when I was 21 now at 47 I still need my mom
S P totally understand 😞. Mine went on to Glory in 2016, I still need her!
I used to say Momma and Daddy are old and out of touch! 😁
When I was a teen I never wanted to stay at home. Always wanted to be going somewhere.
Now, I want to cry if I have to go out especially to WORK😩
I don't even like going into my yard. I don't know why, but I just don't.
Ress yes hunnie i need that!!! I am cracking up you nailed all of it. I just told my grandson he better enjoy childhood. I know what i said!!!💀💀💀
As kid I: can't wait to get my own place.
80's and 90's adults had it way better than we do. Things were way more affordable during those times.
I was a weird kid. I LOVED naps and vegetables (still do) and I wasn’t in a hurry to “be grown.” My mom was like, “Being grown isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Grown ups pay bills and go to work. They have to take care of themselves,” I never thought I’d be as stressed as I am as an adult. Some things in life did not pan out the way I’d like, but that’s for another video, though.
As a kid, I thought people in college were so mature and put together, and I couldn't wait to get to that age to be on my own. Now that I'm 30, I look at kids about to graduate at 22, like that is SO young!
Also did not realize how expensive things were until I had to pay for them. I get excited when gas is less than $2.00, my favorite foods are on sale, and my favorite clothes brands are doing semi-annual sales, so I can get more than a shirt or pair of jeans.
I hope you never stop making videos. I love every second of your videos.❤❤
I was so embarrassed to go to Goodwill with my mother when I was a child but now we go together.
Speak Ej Speak!!! lol.😂😂
As a kid: I cant wait to get married and have my own kids and give them everything you denied me.
As an adult: I've been divorced...twice. I have 4 grown kids in their mid/late 20s spolied rotten! I hate when my phone ring.
Girrrlllll Meeee too.. What were we thinking??
Love your videos!!! So real... So relevant!!! Tyler Perry please give EJSpeaks a call!!!😂😂😂
No ! Thank you .... you make a loT of my days mo better
I never really thought that way but man being adult everyday I just say I just can't today I can't adult anymore. My youngest said I'm leaving mom my response was okay bye and I opened the door for him and I said by the way take everything you bought oh wait you don't have a job. His face was priceless like OMG she's crazy then he just walks away and didn't say anything else about it. 😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂Everything you said is so true.
LAADDYY you cracks me UP. Yes to everything you mentioned. Cant wait to make your own money so you didnt have to ask. Now I have to work for the little money I get to pay the high bills. To only have the responsibility of washing dishes, cleaning your room and HELPING to clean the house really dont seem so bad. Keep the videos coming.
I'm not even half way through this video and I'm ctfu because of all this truth 😂...girl!!!
The food. I remember me and my big sis swearing how we would never have veggies in our kitchens once we were grown and finally free. Yeah, I felt that. And the sleep. Oh Lawd the sleep.
What my mother did to annoy me:
Me: "Momma, I'm hungry"
Mommy: "Hey Hungry, I'm Marianna, nice to meet you" ... (while reaching out to shake my hand as if we have never met)
Me: Quitely, you know below that mute level..."She play too much, I can't stand her"
I said (To myself) as soon as I turn 18 I'm out of here. At 19 my dad found a room for me to rent since I didn't want to go to collage and I was happy to work a part time job. When my whole check went to the rooms rent and there was no money for food. I got my butt in school. Learned to eat vegetables and anything that was given to me.
Nevermind that this whole video is accurate, but shout out to you for knowing the group Subway (hardly anyone remembers them)!! I loved the other song they had too, "Fire"!
OMG! You must have read my soul before you did this video! I am truly in a struggle right now with my adulthood. I used to say " I can't wait to be 21, and I can't wait to leave this house and family." 21 came and went like thief in the night now all of a sudden I'm 38! 😱😱😱😱😭😭😭. I really did call the police on my mom for a wellness when she didn't answer the 10th time. Turns out my phone was on private amd we know black folks don't answer those call 😂😂. Police showed up tho! Lastly, when you hit that Subway tho! VOCALS! Great video Ma'am! ❤❤❤
Welfare check 🤦🏽♀️😂
Say it, Sis! LOL! My kids don’t understand how I can choose a nap over a meal. I would wake up refreshed, but my backbone be pulling in my belly button from the inside😒🤦🏽♀️
Chileeeeee this woman right here gets it!! 😂😂😂😂😂❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
IKR!!! LOL! Sis I need a NAP!! Love You!!
EJ u might not know this.....but you are my spirit guide😇😇😇
Girlllll….. I’ve been hollin! Took me all the way back…. What I wouldn’t do to just pay that water bill! 😂😂😂 I had no idea…. But wouldn’t change the experience because it made me the woman I am today! Just found you on UA-cam and I’m lovin your videos! Too funny ❤️❤️❤️😂
The number of times I had to pause this here video and catch my breath!!!😂😂 ALL FACTS PERIOD!!!