2day I officially became middle aged Chinos What was your milestone to middleage

For me it was being called a ‘baldie middle-aged freak’ by a pupil a few years ago…

Fitness falls off a cliff if I don’t do anything for a couple of weeks.
Look at a car by first checking out how big the boot is.

I, Tomhoward

Have some beige tan cords
Make a noise when I stand up
Refer to modern pop music as ‘just noise’
Like radio 2
Am racing endurance next year, not enduro.
Don’t have any injuries, but have many aches and pains
Buy my pants and socks at next or m&s, but the ones in lurid colours, because I’m still cool.
Don’t get smashed on work do’s on expenses, because CBA with the hangover
Have an ebike
Am 31 3/4

Knowing that from the 1st Jan 2017 I have to move up from M40 to the M50 class in the MTB orienteering league 🙁

Coming back in from work at lunch time and falling a sleep in the chair after lunch for half an hour.

Feeling every joint having to work overtime on the local caver rescue scenario last weekend.

Mind you I still have all my own hair and my wardrobe only has jeans & t-shirts or outdoor kit in it (plus a dozen pairs of overalls for work)

I am 39 and now have a bit of a stomach and am finding it impossible to reduce it back to its former flat self. I also have old injuries that ache and spend more time trimming my ear, nose and eyebrow hair than I do my head and beard hair. Hello middle age.

When it dawns on you that someone you work with was born after you started your present job.

I teach in a sixth form college. My first year students were all born after I got married…

miketually – Member
I teach in a sixth form college. My first year students were all born after I got married…

That would be the case for me as well only we were together 17 years before we got married!!

Looking forward to first automatic car as tired of manuals, nearly 51…

Coming back in from work at lunch time and falling a sleep in the chair after lunch for half an hour.

Having a “the chair” says it all!

Jeezus H Christ on an Ebike,some of you youngsters have really given up early.
Injury or illness aside,it’s all in the mind.
Yes,it gets harder,but unless you have been ground down to paste by the day to day,you should have at least learned some of the shortcuts to being at one with yourself.
Of course some of you may just be natural Hughies.
I worked with Hughie,he was 21 going on 50 when I first met him,racing at warp speed towards bland,as if somehow he had been fast tracked to old.
Don’t be a Hughie 😛

Totally middle aged here. But sod that inside I’m the same as I was 30yrs ago, I wore chinos then and I were then now. They’re a pair of trousers not a statement !!!

The junior doctor working on my ward was not born when I qualified as a nurse – that made me feel old

I got as a dress code guide that if i think like i look like my dad then I’m wearing the right thing ! Chinos and brogues all the way !

I’m only 36, but my Dad, at 73, has only recently accepted that he might be possibly entering the era known as ‘being old’, and it’s with a twinkle in his eye, as if it’s somehow an abstract concept to him still. 🙂

We need to shake a leg, or death might pounce… 😉

All just a gradual slide.
hair appearing … nose, ears, eyebrows, shoulders, back
hair disappearing … ever increasing forehead, balding crown
what’s left going/gone grey
aches, pains and ailments
in bed by 9
up for a pee during the night
awake at 5
folk starting at work who weren’t born when I started there

hmm, yes, sliding scale though mine started when I was 21 and not necesarliy in that order. I’m now 42 and only have to discover someone who wasnt born when I started working here…only been properly working for 13 years anyway…

How many of you buy shoes in clarks? 😀

All my life it seems I’ve been either too young or too old for whatever I contemplated doing next!

I don’t like driving anymore, especially at night.

Used to love it.
Must be age…..

Breaking my back in 2013 when I was 62 and thinking that I might slow down a bit now…

I don’t like driving anymore, especially at night.

Absolutely, Rusty!

When I was in my teens I was car crazy and, as a poor council house kid, all I could afford were rust-riddled bangers that I maintained myself using parts from the local scrapyard. Now, I could afford to buy ANY car I desire, yet choose to drive a Fiesta and hate driving on congested roads, hate the many confusing road signs in and around towns and cities, hate the constant worry of speeding through a camera. Yep, I’m definitely post-middle age!

For me it was when I realised that on a Friday lunchtime I was no longer a ball of excitement waiting for 5 to come around so I could go out and go mental, but was actually just looking forward to being able to go home and do as close to nothing as possible….ideally under a blanket

When you get out the shower and there seems more hair on the shower floor than on your head.

Currently sat enjoying a nice cup of tea, listening to the cricket, wearing brown cords and a fat face jumper. No slippers though!

my slide into mid life crisis was awesome. hadn’t been to a gig in nearly 20 years, as bands sounded shite live. then Alice in Chains were coming around, 2 weeks before my 40th. really enjoyed live heavy metal again. I was 43 last week, went to see Biffy clyro on Tuesday, and going to see the chillipeppers tomorrow. I love being middle aged.
I AM fatter, slower, invisible to females (including my wife), I ride a fat bike, and generally consider 10pm as a late night. but…… I’ve done more in my 40’s, and had more fun, than in I did in the last decade. I run ultramarathons, because I can, and it pisses people off, getting beaten by an old fat guy.
don’t get me started on cars. I laughed at the boot space of a vw scirocco recently, right before I got into my people carrier and drove off. I couldn’t get my dog in the boot of that car. I get 2 fatbikes and camping kit in the touran , with space left over.
I love being old, and sometimes grumpy.

Gutting really … just ordered a couple pairs of chinos; they look so smart/casual/comfortable too.

As already mentioned. Feeling middle aged is:

1. Hair growing in places you don’t want them – instead of where you want them to grow.
2. Wanting to look smart is preferred to looking cool (and still using the word cool).
3. Not behaving like a dog with 2 dicks around beautiful women.
4. Being 15-20 years older than 90% of people in the office.

The moment I realised that I thought I’d finished having a pee, but found out I hadn’t 😳

It may well be in the next five minutes. About to reply to a good mate that I just can’t face his 3 day stag in Bratislava. I’m pretty much alcohol free these days. 4 pints is my absolute limit. It will be younger men going hard and I will die of hangovers.

39 then. 39.

Still won’t wear fat face/old guys rule/white stuff etc. I’m old, not blind.

suburbanreuben – Member

Coming back in from work at lunch time and falling a sleep in the chair after lunch for half an hour.

Having a “the chair” says it all!

Ah, the “the chair”.

I have one earmarked at home, it’s a huge thing that at the moment no one sits in unless we have guests, it may even have a foot stool to go with it…

It’s part of a set which is past it’s best, when that goes it’s going to stay because it’s pretty much as-new, a chair that’s different to all the other furniture, that only ‘Dad’ sits in, well if that’s not “the chair” I don’t know what is. I’m almost ready for it.

Gap Khakis here 😀 Vintage or slim fit none of this baggy chino nonsense!!! I’m 39 😀

How many of you buy shoes in clarks?

I used to 20 years ago, but now they’re all so awful I just couldn’t.
I’ve just bought some Diemme lightweight boots instead.

Being as old (or older) than some of my co-worker’s parents
Hearing about people I was at school with becoming grandparents!
Funerals more than weddings now
Vari-focals
Having the money to buy some of the things I always hankered after, but thinking that they’re not worth it any more.

How many of you buy shoes in clarks?

I see you’re obviously too old to know that Clarks are actually cool these days 😉

Well, clarks originals anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORi4xwSwWlM

edit: I have some Clarks.

Just on the verge of reading glasses. 🙁

“Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional”

I am 47, have a Volvo (although chipped), have hair in weird places, drink real ale, *hit with the door open, talk about pu55y, listen to LTJ Bukem in the Volvo loudly, have a ride-on-mower, wear desert boots…

So I am on the cusp of middle aged 🙂

One thing is the more aches and pains after a long ride 🙁

When you start to think a nest of tables seems like a good idea.

I plat bridge rather than poker on my ipad -in fact I am addicted to bridge on my ipad!!!

Just on the verge of reading glasses.

I plat bridge rather than poker on my ipad -in fact I am addicted to bridge on my ipad!!!

You may want to get that eye test appointment moved forward. 😛

used to play bridge in 6 form then again I may well have been born middle aged. 😥

🙂 indeed, i saw that was too old and lazy to edit – just blamed apple autocorrect!!

😀

Dont know about middle age but know the exact second i was ‘offically old’ – it was right after my Optician told me i was “no longer allowed to bungee jump” (after an operation on my eye) just waiting on the grey hairs now