Symptoms of being 25+

Ben302 · Post by **Ben302** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:47 pm

1. You leave clubs before the end to "beat the rush".

2. You get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than going clubbing.

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. Rather than throw a knackered pair of trainers out, you keep them because they'll be all right for the garden.

9. You buy your first ever T-shirt without anything written on it.

10. 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 benchand an electronic mole repellent for the lawn.
Not to mention the plastic man for the car to deter would-be thieves.

11. You start to worry about your parents' health.

12 . Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything you want
to buy costs between 200 and 500 quid.

14. 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.

15. Pop music all starts to sound crap.

16. 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.

17. You become powerless to resist the lure of self-assembly furniture.

18. You always have enough milk in.

19. 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.

20. While flicking through the TV channels, you happen upon C4's Time Team with Tony Robinson. You get drawn in.

21. The benefits of a pension scheme become clear.

22. You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from B&Q.

23. You wish you had a shed.

24. You have a shed.

25. 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...."

26. Radio 2 play more songs you know than Radio 1 - and Jimmy Young
has some really interesting guests on.

27. Instead of tutting at old people who take ages to get off the
bus, you tut at schoolchildren whose diction is poor.

28. When sitting outside a pub you become envious of their hanging baskets.

29. You make an effort to be in and out of the curry house by 11.

30. 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 p**sing your life up against a wall forever and think of how many brain cells you're destroying every time a swift
half turns into 10 pints, 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, ...

31. You find yourself saying "is it cold in here or is it just me?"

Andy-W · Post by **Andy-W** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 7:52 pm

Damn, I sat here nodding to myself too often for my own liking with this one

rob · Post by **rob** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:18 pm

as a moderator I did consider deleting this post in the interests of those like me who are 25 or over.

Its just so true that its scary.

And for all you youngsters that say it wont ever be me, be warned, we have all said that. It just creeps up and gets you.

Any way must dash as I have a saucepan of milk on the stove ready to make some Horlicks

Vanda · Post by **Vanda** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:31 pm

Hey come on guys, you're only as old as you feel.......which is quite bad seeing as I feel like I'm falling to bits at the moment but it'll pass!

So that said how about another one.......

You seem to take forever to recover from a simple cold!

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 11:13 pm

:yes:

charlieannear · Post by **charlieannear** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:29 am

I like getting older.
When sales staff in shops call you 'Sir' they mean it a little more with every passing day...

Esselle · Post by **Esselle** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:05 pm

Its just so true that its scary.

Only about half of it's true for me

MattB · Post by **MattB** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 1:40 pm

I'm 25 on Monday so will look out for these things!

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 1:16 am

You know your older when you stop taking offence to someone calling you "young man".

Esselle · Post by **Esselle** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 10:38 am

You know your older when you stop taking offence to someone calling you "young man".

I would ALWAYS take offence to that

Emma206 · Post by **Emma206** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:35 pm

OMG so many so true!!

I'm old!!!!!!