SYMPTOMS OF BEING OVER 30

1. You leave clubs before the end to 'beat the rush'. (worst still you
don't go to the clubs)

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 / basketball
player and start
dreaming of having 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 of
the 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 or a Wallace
And Gromit bubble bath, 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 go
clubbing, 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 there were only 4
TV channels' 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. Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the bus,
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. You understand the above and forward it to your fellow aging
friends.

I'm building a wooden playhouse for my daughter in the garden. My wife thinks it's a bit on the big side, little does she suspect thatwhen my daughter gets fed up with it , it'll get a coat of OD and become Pat's Shed



And 28. You say to the owner of the LHS " I remember when you could buy a kit and the paints for under 5 quid"

Keith,

You are not thirty yet (if you are then all modllers, like Policemen ARE loking younger)

Oh and by the way I am ONLY 46

Cheers

Craig

That the most interesting thing about teenage girls is their mothers

No danger of No 17 applying to me

David

Damn, I feel old now! Thanks............I think.....

Gary

i turn 37 this year and im still classed as one of the younger memebers of IPMS Uk

i'm slowly being dragged towards middle age, but i'm screaming and kicking all the way

keith

Keith,

Yeah, you and Courtney both,

Craig

Keith, you havent been spying on me have you?

I'm just back from the local waterhole and suddenly all this make perfect sense to me.....and I'm "only" 38!

PS. If you only knew how many times that I had to go back to correct my spelling.....

Where's my (censored) slippers and pipe?

............... ...the really old buggers here are gettin' a kick out of this thread.....

Tread.


............in fact...here's one for the "old buggers"........

How many of you leave 'extra' pairs of reading glasses lying around the place just so's you can always be assured of having a pair 'handy'?..........come on, 'fess up! ;-)

Oh my god....
is there a cure??

UM...ok......... not quite 30 but some of that on the list............. Well except # 8.........................

....you don't buy T-shirts at all, they are bought for you, by your wife....

The nose hair clipper doesn`t seem such a bad idea after all, also one just stops plucking at the white hairs because there are so many. I really won`t let it worry me until somebody offers me their seat on a bus, but now they don`t even offer the seat to a pregnant woman or an oldie. Realizing that by complaining about that I am getting nostalgic about how things were; a sign of age?

So much of that is true, but thankfully not all of it, yet....

Still worse yet, underwear too!

I still sorta remember when I was 30......22 years ago!

getting older is not for the weak or the young, ya gotta be tough!

Hey Tread you been spying on me too,Ive got glasses so I can find my glasses

When your son (or daughter) who you remember just yesterday was asking to ride on the electric pony outside the local supermarket - is now asking for the keys to your car for a night out with his/her friends...

Don't forget about #28. You prefer to have a beer at the local Legion.