Symptoms of being over 25

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I just got this as an email from a friend.

SYMPTOMS OF BEING OVER 25

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 / Formula 1 driver 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 39, they are only 39.

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 £300 and £1000.

12. You don't get funny looks when you buy a Disney DVD 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 3 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?"
 

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27. -- You make threads like this. :)
 

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Oh, good! According to this list, I am not over 25.

Except for the clubbing bit. Honestly, no one in their right mind would want to go to any of the clubs around here, unless you're gay and want to go to Treks (or you're not gay and want to hang out with the only interesting people in the area, in which case, you go to Treks).

So I'm just going to take a bit of white-out to my birth certificate, then... it lies! Oh, the lies. Slander! Libel!
 
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Good god. I'm so old.

Did I mention it's my birthday on Monday? Did I? Huh? Huh?

Must be the Old Timer's Disease kicking in...

:cry:

Someone bring me a cake. Please.
 

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27. When bending over, you look around and see if there's anything else you should pick up while you're down there.


Oh...no, I guess that's more a symptom of being over 50...


ETA: Scarlet, I'll bring you a cake Monday.
 

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Chocolate, it will be...double layer, candles, the works. :)
 

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28. depression over impending birthdays.

(This is alleviated with the 50th birthday, however. Post-50 birthdays are greeted with relief over having made it another year.)
 
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Not yet. ;)

I'm softening the blow of turning 31 by having my hair done.

Blonde again. :D
 

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You buy alcohol and desperately waive your ID around. The clerk laughs and doesn't bother to look at it. "I don't need to see that. Have a nice day, ma'am."

Your former students come back and bring their babies to show off. These weren't child-brides or oopsie babies either.

Forty doesn't sound middle-aged to you anymore.
 

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You think over 25 sucks? Wait 'til ya join the over 45 club. 25 to thirty-five, maybe 40 were the best years of my life. Especially the DINK years, a party attitude and the money to do it right.

So stop the moaning and start having the time of your life.:hooray:
 

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Seun, if you're doing all that and you're only 25, mate, I'd start planning for the sheltered housing right about next year.

Bloody nora, I still don't do half that stuff on your list and I'm old enough to be your great-great-great-grandmother.

Actually, I've got one. Two. When your friends start on their divorces. When your childhood TV faves get made into movies.
 

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Naw it's being 60 with the body of a young lion and the face of a rolled up carpet that has just been-well-unrolled-CARPer CRAP! of course after being in storage for about 35 years-Carp again!
 

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God seun, you really are an old fart. I would invest in a big stock of Depends right now 'cause at 25, you're only a dribble away from incontinence
 

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God seun, you really are an old fart. I would invest in a big stock of Depends right now 'cause at 25, you're only a dribble away from incontinence


Hey, in my defence, I didn't write the list. I just posted it for a cheap laugh.
Anyway, Scarlet's older than me. Go on, ask her how old she's going to be next week. Dare you.
 

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Good god. I'm so old.

Did I mention it's my birthday on Monday? Did I? Huh? Huh?

Must be the Old Timer's Disease kicking in...

:cry:

Someone bring me a cake. Please.


I won't be here Monday, so Happy Early Birthday! I hope all your dreams come true!

Hey, the good news is that sex gets better after 40 for women! Bad news (though I haven't gotten here yet - thank God) - back fat.

Judy