You know it’s a sign of being over 40 when……..

1. You leavethe  pubs before the last orders "beat the rush". *(worst still you don’t go to the pub)
2. You get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than going clubbing the night before.
3. You stop dreaming of becoming a professional footballer*and start dreaming you may one day have a son who might instead.
4. Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the property section.
5. All of a sudden, middle aged people are not 46, they are only 46.
6. Before going out anywhere, you ask whether there is anywhere to park.
7. Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers! out, you keep them because they’ll be alright for the DIY or in the garden.
8. You buy T-shirts without anything written on them.
9. Instead of laughing at the innovations catalogue that falls out ofthe newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving*properties of most of the things that are in it.
10. You start to worry about your parents’ health.
11. You have more disposable income, but everything you want or need to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid.
12. You don’t get funny looks when you buy a Disney video as the sales assistant assumes they are for your children.
13. Pop music all starts to sound the same.
14. You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they do a really nice half-bottle of house red.
15. You always have enough milk in.
16. To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to goclubbing, you instead frequent trendy bars and restaurants in the mistaken belief that you have not turned into your parents.
17. While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4’s Time Team with Tony! Robinson. You get drawn in. *Grand Designs also appeals.
18. The benefits of a pension scheme become clear.
19. You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from B&Q.
20. You wish you had a shed.
21. You have a shed.
22. You actually find yourself saying "They don’t make ’em like that anymore" and "I remember when a bus journey was 30p" and "Not in my day…."
23. Radio 2 play more songs you know than Radio 1 – and Jeremy Vine has some really interesting guests on.
24. You tut at rowdy school children.

25. When sitting outside a pub you admire their hanging baskets.
26. You find yourself saying "is it cold in here or is it just me?"
27. Far more members of the opposite sex start to look particularly attractive.!
28. The idea of having a selection of biscuits with your tea start to sound appealing.

 

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About Austin Knight

comedian, after-dinner speaker, writer, actor, raillery exponent, addlepated blatherer, nincompoop, panhandler, knave, popinjay, bon viveur, impudent scoundrel, rascal, scallywag, libertine, renaissance man, snurger, wisenheimer, pugnacious panjandrum, purveyor of egregious crapulate logorrhea, ne'er do well, infidel & plumbers mate.
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