30 Things You Should Know How to Do by Age 30
1. Change a tire If you can’t do this, your license gets revoked. Breaking into tears when you get a flat is grounds for divorce in some states. Credit: Flickr/AHLN
2. Operate a grill If you still use a George Foreman Grill you’re legally obligated to return your college diploma.
4. Swim Dude, your body is already 60 percent water.
5. Change your oil Otherwise Jiffy Lube will be the only kind of lube in your life.
6. Throw a football It’s a lot easier than feigning injury every time a spontaneous game breaks out at a backyard barbecue.
12. Get around without a phone You know what happens when you turn off the GPS and trust your own sense of direction to get from point A to point B? America happens.
13. Parallel park Rule of thumb: if a sixteen-year-old can do something, you need to be able to do that thing better.
15. Balance a checkbook Refer to Billy Joel’s “ Scenes from an Italian Restaurant” for information about the dangers of poor financial planning. It took Brenda and Eddie “a couple of years” to save up for a waterbed? No wonder she dumped him.
16. Jump-start a car Despite what you may have learned from Taken, jumper cables don’t exist simply so that Liam Neeson can torture foreign people. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
17. Tie a tie Clip-on ties were invented by the CIA to help identify sociopaths.
20. Iron clothes If your primary goal when dating is finding a spouse who will do this for you, we’d like to know more about your time machine, sir.
21. Ride a bike E.T. learned how to ride a bike in the goddamn sky and he wasn’t even from this planet. What’s your excuse?
23. Drive stick In case you ever need to be on Top Gear.
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