According to HuffPo, these are things you need to learn how to do before moving out of your parents' place.  I feel like there are some questionable ones on the list.  I mean, there has to be something more important than hospital corners that needs to be learned.   And no teenager needs to learn how to "buy clothes".  The mall was basically my entire existence as a 18 year old.

1. Write a check
2. Pay a bill
3. Make travel arrangements
4. Navigate an airport, train or bus station
5. Deal with a cancelled flight
6. Take a taxi
7. Catch the subway
8. Plunge a toilet
9. Change a tire
10. Check the oil
11. Shave with a razor
12. Withdraw cash from an ATM
13. Pay for dinner
14. Self-prescribe over the counter meds
15. Call a doctor
16. Cook a meal
17. Cancel a membership
18. Buy clothes
19. Return a purchase
20. Pack a suitcase (without inspection)
21. Do the laundry
22. Iron a shirt
23. Go food shopping for themselves
24. Negotiate a deal
25. Make hospital corners
26. Sew a button
27. Remove a stain
28. Replace a fuse
29. Remove a splinter
30. Enjoy a drink responsibly
31. Say "no" with confidence

Shit, I am elderly according to that list!

You know how to do hospital corners?  I'm not even sure I know what that is.

I guess I fail.  I've never lived in a place with a subway.  I was on one in Europe once, but I was 15 and it was a group effort.  We almost got lost anyway.

#32.  Have your own cell phone plan.

 

You know how to do hospital corners?  I'm not even sure I know what that is.

With fitted sheets, I doubt many people do anymore.

I guess I fail.  I've never lived in a place with a subway.  I was on one in Europe once, but I was 15 and it was a group effort.  We almost got lost anyway.

I would have failed for this reason, also, at 18. In fact, I think I've only been on a subway once and in a cab fewer than 5 times. The travel ones would have stumped me. Unless you wanted me to drive somewhere - I could drive a manual transmission pickup pulling a livestock trailer (maybe not in city traffic). And I not only knew how to check the oil, but also how to change it, though in newer vehicles I wouldn't try it.

 

 I could drive a manual transmission pickup pulling a livestock trailer (maybe not in city traffic). 

I wanna see you parallel park that bad boy.

NO, I HAVE NOT DONE ALL THOSE THINGS!

Well actually I have, but I was just demonstrating my adeptness at #31. Most of the girls I went out in my dating days actually never had a problem with that one either. But I digress.

I still refuse to do some of those things. I guess I never grew up. 

Well I have done them, doesn't mean I still do them. I WILL NOT iron a shirt. Either it doesn't need to be ironed, or I let the professionals take care of it.