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07-10-2004, 10:54 PM
the 30 something feeling
THAT 30-SOMETHING FEELING-------------------------
1. You leave gigs before the encore to "beat the rush"
2. You own a lawnmower
3. You stop dreaming of becoming a professional footballer and start
dreaming of having a son who might instead
4. Before throwing the local paper away, you look through the property
section
5. You prefer Later with Jools Holland to Top of the Pops
6. All of a sudden, Tony Blair is not 46, he's only 46
7. Before going out anywhere, you ask what the parking is like
8. Flicking through Heat / Time Out magazine makes you too tired to
go out
9. Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them
because they'll be all right for the garden
10. You buy your first ever T-shirt without anything written on it
11. Instead of laughing at the innovations catalogue that falls out of the
newspaper, you suddenly see both the benefit and money saving properties
of a plastic winter cover for your garden bench and an electronic mole
repellent for the lawn. Not to mention the plastic man for the car to
deter would be thieves.
12. You start to worry about your parents' health.
13. You complain that ecstacy's "not as pure as it used to be" coz you
know that if you have some it will take about 48 hours to recover and
anyway, you might look a bit of a twat
14. Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything you want to
buy costs between 200 and 500 quid
15. 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 child
16. Pop music all starts to sound crap
17. You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they don't have any
pictures on the menus and anyway, they do a really nice half-bottle of
house white
18. You become powerless to resist the lure of self-assembly furniture
19. You always have enough milk in
20. To compensate for the fact that you have little desire to go clubbing,
you instead frequent really loud tapas restaurants and franchise pubs
with wacky names in the mistaken belief that you have not turned into
your parents
21. While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4's Time
Team with Tony Robinson. You get drawn in.
22. The benefits of a pension scheme become clear
23. You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from B&Q
24. You wish you had a shed
25. You have a shed
26. You actually find yourself saying "They don't make 'em like that
anymore" and "I remember when there were only 3 TV channels" and "Of
course, in my day...."
27. Radio 2 play more songs you know than Radio 1 - and Jimmy Young has
some really interesting guests on, you know
28. Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the bus,
you tut at schoolchildren whose diction is poor
29. When sitting outside a pub you become envious of their hanging baskets
30. You make an effort to be in and out of the curry house by 11
31. You come face to face with your own mortality for the first time,
and the indestructibility of the 20s gives way to a realisation that you
are but passing through this life and if you don't settle down soon and
have kids you'll have no-one to look after you when you're old and frail
and incontinent and you can't go on pissing your life up against a wall
forever and think of how many brain cells you're destroying every time
a cheeky one turns into 10, and look at that, a full set of stainless
steel saucepans for 99 quid, they cost as much as 35 each if you buy
them separately, and you get a milk pan thrown in, and.......
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08-10-2004, 12:46 PM
Originally Posted by Gems
Well theres no hope for me and im not even 20!!
I do some of those things and I haven't even hit 16 yet!!
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