15 Modern Adulting Questions Every Grown-Up Should Be Able To Answer – Test Yourself
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You probably know how to pay bills, answer emails, and survive a grocery run. But how well do you handle the everyday challenges of adult life?
This quiz covers the practical knowledge most grown-ups rely on, from taxes, budgeting, and grocery shopping to first aid, dining etiquette, and those real-world situations nobody ever teaches you in school.
Ready to find out whether you’re an adulting expert or just getting by on instinct? Let’s see how your life skills stack up. 📱🛒💸🚑🍽️
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Ace Ace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium 
Premium user. Get details. 1 day ago I disagree with the two I got wrong here - napkin on your chair is gross, you've potentially been using it to wipe your mouth, and may do so again. Unless you have specifically signalled them, or there are other people at the table to do so, waiting staff should not start clearing you're table while you're not there. The other one, the 'white tie', isn't so much wrong as just archaic. And specifically American, it seems, I had never heard of it.
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Apatheist Apatheist Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago 100% agree. I've never seen a napkin placed on a chair, ever.
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eloop eloop Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago Yeah, my answer was on the left of the plate. That's how we were taught by my grandma
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highwaycrossingfrog highwaycrossingfrog Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 1 day ago The napkin thing is formal etiquette rules, which are mostly outdated now, not general habit. I am familiar with the idea of white tie (also formal etiquette) and I am British.
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LookASquirrel LookASquirrel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 17 hours ago I know etiquette says to do that with the napkin but I don't do that in most restaurants we frequent. Not sanitary enough. Even nicer places have been slacking on cleaning between seating.
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nicholas nolan nicholas nolan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago So I looked it up for a few places and in North America, the UK, and most of Europe, you leave the napkin loosely on the chair when temporarily leaving. You leave it to the left of the plate in Germany, and Turkey. I'm sure there are others.
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Pittsburgh rare Pittsburgh rare Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 hours ago In Spain it goes on the left of the plate. Anyone leaving it on the chair would get funny looks
Ace Ace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 9 hours ago Just because you "looked it up" does not make it so. It's an entirely made-up rule, and one which I'm pretty sure would be unknown to 99% of serving staff. AAMOI I did ask this question of my neighbour''s daughter, who's just finished her apprenticeship in hotel/catering/hospitality, studying at a well-respected Swiss hotel school, and she'd never heard of it.
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Bored Jellyfish Bored Jellyfish Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 23 hours ago Yep! Got the same two wrong. Never heard of the napkin thing. I’m not leaving a potentially dirty napkin on my chair. It’s going next to my plate, thank you! As for the white tie thing… well, am female, so i know it means to wear the best and most expensive dress I’ve got.
3 3points reply Pittsburgh rare Pittsburgh rare Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 hours ago Yeah, failed those two as well. I didn't even know there was something beyond black tie
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StrangeOne StrangeOne Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 13 hours ago In proper, formal etiquette, the napkin is placed on the lap. Sometimes, it ends up on the floor. Would you want that napkin placed on the table when people are still eating?
0 0points reply Ace Ace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 9 hours ago I'd prefer that to getting greasy marks on the chair seat, or indeed getting greasy chair seat residue on my mouth. Even the floor is likely to be _much_ cleaner than the chair seat.
zububonsai zububonsai Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago I went to my pharmacy bringing back my old medicine (antibiotics, cough medicine,...) to get safely rid of it and they suggested I should just flush it down the toilet. I refused with "Why should I add antibiotics to the water cycle?! It's just hard to filter out." and they took it back but a bit grumpily. (🇩🇪) Just insist.
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Alexandra Alexandra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago That's just sad. Imagine if everyone just flushed all their medication down the drain: the drinking water would be contaminated with all kinds of harmful substances. God only knows what the long-term results of drinking contaminated water will look like.
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Virgil Blue Virgil Blue Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago Ar my pharmacy they have special bins for it that you can't get things out of once deposited.
4 4points reply Ace Ace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 9 hours ago All pharmacies (I dunno, maybe some countries not?) are obliged to take back unused medicines and send them for proper disposal. I don't believe any would suggest flushing it as you claim happened here.
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Robert T Robert T Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 22 hours ago Too much American terminology. I largely grasped what was being asked, but we used different terms for things, such as Lasting Power of Attorney, which allows you to act on behalf of someone up until their d***h, as which point the Will takes over. And the reason the man walks on the outside was originally to protect the lady from horses, other traffic came later.
5 5points reply Load More Comments POST Ace Ace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 1 day ago I disagree with the two I got wrong here - napkin on your chair is gross, you've potentially been using it to wipe your mouth, and may do so again. Unless you have specifically signalled them, or there are other people at the table to do so, waiting staff should not start clearing you're table while you're not there. The other one, the 'white tie', isn't so much wrong as just archaic. And specifically American, it seems, I had never heard of it.
18 18points reply Apatheist Apatheist Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago 100% agree. I've never seen a napkin placed on a chair, ever.
10 10points reply Load More Replies... eloop eloop Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago Yeah, my answer was on the left of the plate. That's how we were taught by my grandma
7 7points reply highwaycrossingfrog highwaycrossingfrog Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 1 day ago The napkin thing is formal etiquette rules, which are mostly outdated now, not general habit. I am familiar with the idea of white tie (also formal etiquette) and I am British.
5 5points reply LookASquirrel LookASquirrel Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 17 hours ago I know etiquette says to do that with the napkin but I don't do that in most restaurants we frequent. Not sanitary enough. Even nicer places have been slacking on cleaning between seating.
0 0points reply nicholas nolan nicholas nolan Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago So I looked it up for a few places and in North America, the UK, and most of Europe, you leave the napkin loosely on the chair when temporarily leaving. You leave it to the left of the plate in Germany, and Turkey. I'm sure there are others.
5 5points reply Pittsburgh rare Pittsburgh rare Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 hours ago In Spain it goes on the left of the plate. Anyone leaving it on the chair would get funny looks
2 2points reply Ace Ace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 9 hours ago Just because you "looked it up" does not make it so. It's an entirely made-up rule, and one which I'm pretty sure would be unknown to 99% of serving staff. AAMOI I did ask this question of my neighbour''s daughter, who's just finished her apprenticeship in hotel/catering/hospitality, studying at a well-respected Swiss hotel school, and she'd never heard of it.
-1 -1point reply Bored Jellyfish Bored Jellyfish Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 23 hours ago Yep! Got the same two wrong. Never heard of the napkin thing. I’m not leaving a potentially dirty napkin on my chair. It’s going next to my plate, thank you! As for the white tie thing… well, am female, so i know it means to wear the best and most expensive dress I’ve got.
3 3points reply Pittsburgh rare Pittsburgh rare Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 11 hours ago Yeah, failed those two as well. I didn't even know there was something beyond black tie
0 0points reply StrangeOne StrangeOne Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 13 hours ago In proper, formal etiquette, the napkin is placed on the lap. Sometimes, it ends up on the floor. Would you want that napkin placed on the table when people are still eating?
Ace Ace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 9 hours ago I'd prefer that to getting greasy marks on the chair seat, or indeed getting greasy chair seat residue on my mouth. Even the floor is likely to be _much_ cleaner than the chair seat.
-1 -1point reply zububonsai zububonsai Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago I went to my pharmacy bringing back my old medicine (antibiotics, cough medicine,...) to get safely rid of it and they suggested I should just flush it down the toilet. I refused with "Why should I add antibiotics to the water cycle?! It's just hard to filter out." and they took it back but a bit grumpily. (🇩🇪) Just insist.
7 7points reply Alexandra Alexandra Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago That's just sad. Imagine if everyone just flushed all their medication down the drain: the drinking water would be contaminated with all kinds of harmful substances. God only knows what the long-term results of drinking contaminated water will look like.
4 4points reply Load More Replies... Virgil Blue Virgil Blue Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 day ago Ar my pharmacy they have special bins for it that you can't get things out of once deposited.
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Ace Ace Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow Premium Premium user. Get details. 9 hours ago All pharmacies (I dunno, maybe some countries not?) are obliged to take back unused medicines and send them for proper disposal. I don't believe any would suggest flushing it as you claim happened here.
0 0points reply Robert T Robert T Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 22 hours ago Too much American terminology. I largely grasped what was being asked, but we used different terms for things, such as Lasting Power of Attorney, which allows you to act on behalf of someone up until their d***h, as which point the Will takes over. And the reason the man walks on the outside was originally to protect the lady from horses, other traffic came later.
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