As an adult, what seemingly childish things do you get excited about?
I love bridges. If I see a cool looking bridge, I want to cross it, especially if it goes somewhere that I’m not familiar with. Same with stairs outdoors. They feel like an adventure to me.
Birds and wildlife in my neighborhood. I’m technically in suburbia, but enough old growth patches have been maintained that we have a surprising amount of wild animals that live in or travel through the neighborhood (Massachusetts, US)
Merlin app is amazing for identifying birds at the feeder I put on my back deck. And the rest of the animals, I mentally collect like Pokemon.
Thank you for this! I’ve found myself getting more interested in birds just this past year, and that app looks great. I got a set of binoculars for stargazing but been finding myself using them more to look at birds lol
Like Nerf, but not Nerf, because nerf sucks. there’s other off brands that make far better ones. Like I just got a mini gun like one, fully automatic 80 feet range
Santa is bring the heat this year. (I try to get my sons toys out and assembled and working before Christmas because nothing is worse than a toy that doesn’t work on Christmas. Plus wrapping all that? Santa got no time for that
New video game releases from Nintendo. I’m all grown up and primarily game on PC but I still buy pretty much every Zelda release and recently beat Super Mario RPG 2023.
I am super impatiently awaiting a new set of wheels for my RC car to be delivered. I purchased them a while ago and it is taking ages! I want to finally finish my build and let it rip on the street!
Seeing furniture left out for trash pickup. As soon as I see it I immediately start plotting out how I could transport it and where it would fit in my house or what it could replace. Though in all likelihood, I never need it and I really never pick any of it up.
Thrifting too is a “thrill” sometimes when you find something really good, but you have to wade through alot of crap and anymore the prices are less likely to be a deal.
Ice cream. Someone wants ice cream, I am happy to show them where to get some. And I might get some myself too. Any reason for ice cream is a good reason.
I found a place in southern Germany that has blimps you can ride on, booked a ticket for summer of 2020, then the rona happened. That company shut down during the lockdowns. No blimp for me.
Steam locomotives. I still get giddy like a little kid when I get to see one in a museum. Real life is even better. Heck I’ll go out of my way to see model trains if there’s a steam engine somewhere in the display.
I don’t even have words to tell you how cool that place is. We went to an art exhibition in Hamburg, and kind of accidentally went to see that place too. Like, they have day/night cycle there. They have trains with little cameras on top of them so you can travel in them. They have model planes landing and they have cruise ships going in real water.
Not exactly childish but, assembling furniture. I’m excited when I buy furniture that arrives disassembled because I get to look at the instructions and build it myself. I guess it resonates with setting up and assembling toys, just with adult things instead.
Big vehicles. Esspecially old tanks, considering I’m a history nerd, but even just driving by a construction site or airport and seeing all the cool stuff.
I would love to ride, but the weather where I live makes that currently impossible. Snow, ice, snow slush, salt and everything either on a regular road or on completely unmaintained (and thus frozen) bike paths. So my options are slipping on ice or slipping on ice and then getting run over by a car.
I’m not suggesting that you put yourself in unnecessary danger, however, if you still wanted to get out on the paths, Schwalbe makes some really great studded tires that help a ton on ice.
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