It's official! I'm middle-aged!

[Gangster Octopus]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

evilC wrote:

Gangster Octopus wrote:

Amor de Cosmos wrote:

Please let me know if you catch me at it.

Ok. You may've been old enough to know that Diana Ross wasn't up to much, but I was seven. And I loved all The Supremes...

G.O., sometime in the 70s:

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60s, please...

[ian.64]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

and you said 'Bolton Wanderers' on the Guardian website, ha, dont think it wasnt noticed you old fuckbag, cackle.

(Hiss) Keep it down......

[Mumpo]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

I just get more and more worried, as the years flit by, that my clothes are becoming more age-inappropriate. The other week I bought a pair of canvas hi-top trainers from Matalan (yeah grandad, I am too cool for the high street... plus they were very reasonably priced) and I agonised for ages whether or not to roll up the ends of my trousers a little bit when I wore them, like the kids do. In the end I threw caution to the wind and went for a daring double-roll, and let me tell you, I've been getting some admiring glances from the youngsters I pass as I stride around town, man-sack slung over one shoulder and bottom cardigan button rakishly undone.

Admiring. Yeah, they're admiring.

[Toby Gymshorts]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

evilC wrote:

Awwwww! Who'awuvlywittulbabythennn,eh?!? Youare! Yesyouare! Ohyezyouare!

Gerrrroooffffff meeeeeee!

That made me laugh, you big berk.

[wingco]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

Y'know, gt3, the more I think about since first you told me that story, the more I feel I'm going to have to insist on viewing some sort of CCTV footage by way of corroboration. I mean, you're a well-preserved lad and all that, but . . . . .

[Amor de Cosmos]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

I was asked for ID when I bought a beer in Phoenix a couple of weeks ago. I think they just do it to cheer you up.

[Gangster Octopus]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

Wow, that beats my being asked at 38...

[evilC]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

Humph! I feel rather sleighted for not having been thus challenged recently, now!

I want to be one of the 'looks young' gang!

(edit: And when I say 'recently' I mean, like, not in the last 20 years!)

[wingco]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

Mumpo, you are T S Eliot's Prufrock. "I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled" . . .

[WOM]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

evilC wrote:

I draw the line at offering to blow raspberrys on your stomach, though.

At, or just slightly before?

[Heliotrope]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

Rogin, if your Facebook pic is anything to go by, you certainly don't look old even if you are old. (smiling emoticon here)

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

I'm not blessed old! I'm 37!

Oh heavens, I've just said "blessed". What a giveaway. In my day, proper swearing was a sin, you know, not like these youngsters now ...

Arsebiscuits.

[Heliotrope]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

Oh! I meant to say that you look so young that people probably think, "There's no way you're 37--you look like you're 25!" So it's weird to think that you're the "old man" in the original post.

[WOM]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

Nice save.

[Guest]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

Previous time I got carded, I say to bouncer man, What? Are you serious? and I smile, at which point he goes, No!! Ahahahahha!! and grabs his mate and goes Fuck me she thought I meant it!!! And they're laughing so much they have to prop each other up.

I wouldn't mind only it feels like yesterday I was altering my school ID to add 3 years onto my age and memorising what my birthday should be and so on to get past bouncers like that. Never mind. With age comnes wisdom, or something

[erwin]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

Lyra wrote:

With age comes wisdom, or something

"something" = varicose veins?

[Wyatt Earp]

It's official! I'm middle-aged!

I got carded in 1990, at Fenway Park in Boston (the baseball park). They would only accept a Massachussetts drivers' licence.

But I was wearing a hat, and all I had to do was take it off.