Signs you're heading towards middle age...

Narj said:
I just ordered my first bottle of Hennessy X.O (70cl) as a little step up from Courvoisier nightcaps. Thinking now I need a smoking jacket and some slippers.

Re: Middle age, I've not bought a sports car because it's not practical for what I do in my spare time.

What luxury items have the discerning (or just plain bored/adventurous) gentlemen of OcUK been treating themselves to once they hit mid-late 30's or onwards? I'd really like to know! :)
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Mid 30's middle age?

Nah too much hassle at that age, i'll starting considering a mid life crisis mid 40's when I have some spare time (and cash :p)
 
Well my new purchase arrived and I've definitely got a liking for Cognac now. Warmed up, that stuff is absolute heaven in liquid form. :D

As for other signs, I'm glad it's common to have the odd unexpected post-wee dribble!
 
Devrij said:
Well, I'm actually quite looking forwards to the new washing machine arriving on Monday. I never thought I'd ever write those words, and I'm only 29!
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For me, it was enthusing about a new vacuum cleaner :)

A few others:

Realising that after work I'd much rather go home, shower, put my comfy slippers on and have a cup of tea while reading a book than go out.

I'm approaching needing varifocals. I have to hold things a slight distance away to read smaller text...and the distance is increasing.

I work in a members-only place with an 18 age limit, so I quite often process new members. When I see a birth year in the 1990s, I am still expecting to see a young child and it throws me a little when the person is old enough to not even need proof of age. It doesn't seem like 25 years since 1990.

If I am asked my age, I usually have to calculate it by subtracting my birth year from the current year.

I often walk home from work ~2300, through the city centre. So I often see women dressed in flimsy clothing and not much of it. When my first thought was along the lines of "I bet she's cold", I knew I was middle-aged.
 
When I see young girls ~18-21 or so, I think "she's only a few years older than my niece" rather than "I'd do that". :(

Oh and hairs coming out.of your ears. Ugh!
 
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DXP55 said:
Being able to afford a tin of salmon :D

down side is as said having a pee that takes 5 min-- 2 min for main blast and three min waiting for the odd tea spoon when you don't expect it - carrying a pair of jeans and underpant's in car just in case -

Also a clean ltr plastic brown sauce bottle in boot for the can't wait moment. :eek:
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I'm pretty sure that's not normal. You might find it a good idea to get some medical advice about that.
 
chaparral said:
Just is what really bugs me...

But You kind of just lose more and more interest the older you get..:(
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I'd rather have it as it is now than in my 20's spending every minute being guided by the thing between my legs.


...as you can see I am middle aged.
 
Pawnless Endgame said:
I was more of a dance kid, but I 100% agree with you that 1994-6 was a great era for mainstream music. The top 40 nowadays is mainly occupied by Justin Beiber (like 5 entries of him!), One Direction occupying another 5 entries, and I've not heard of any of the other artists. Also, what is it with artist names missing out vowels e.g. WSTRN and Weeknd? Same with Flickr, Tumbr etc?

I'm 37 too btw :-)
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I'm 35 in June and thought I was in a bad way with being diagnosed with PsA, bad joint pain etc and having to be on some strong meds, but reading this, I'm doing better than I thought :p

Meds have it mostly under control after they've been increased twice so I can be pretty active. On nights out I can outlast the younger generations, can stay up all night (not like I used to as I get terrible headaches all the time) and I still feel in my mid 20's :D
 
38 here, into DIY, spending time with my kids and just staying at home. Im knackered after 10, yet some lads i know, are hitting the gym at that time!

Even my car choice is about comfort, size and the ability to fit 3 child seats in the back!
 
AHarvey said:
I'm 35 in June and thought I was in a bad way with being diagnosed with PsA, bad joint pain etc and having to be on some strong meds, but reading this, I'm doing better than I thought :p

Meds have it mostly under control after they've been increased twice so I can be pretty active. On nights out I can outlast the younger generations, can stay up all night (not like I used to as I get terrible headaches all the time) and I still feel in my mid 20's :D
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You are in a bad way. I'm the same age, I take no medication. I think much of the achy moany crew comes down to mind over matter. Being diagnosed is something different of course but with some people I think they just have to get up and get on with it.
 
I'm 29 but on Saturday I sneezed and threw my back out.

Lower back left hand side, just above the top of my bum cheeks.

Agony, old golfing injury that doesn't want to go away.

Can't wait to get to middle age and see what happens to me then.
 
I first recognised mid-life when I bought a car that "went from A to B" and had heated comfy leather seats, unlike my cars before.. I bought a focus after looking at cars like Alfas etc.
 
Having never been a particularly outgoing type of person, middle age is currently fairly innocuous as far as I can tell.

I did buy a big, comfortable diesel and a cat a couple of years ago but I do still sport a full head of thick hair and don't yet need glasses so I kind of break even at the moment :p
 
39 this year.
I kind of did a load of crazy stuff through my teens and early twenties and was quite sensible (boring) from then on really.
Inability to tolerate morons - gets stronger daily and now prefer animals to people.
Want to go and live a solitary life in the wilds with no modern technology.

Can't hear modern music as still listening to stuff from 1990s back to 1950s.
 
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