Symptoms Of Being Over 30

[Totster]

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/decorating.

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 bench and 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. You complain that ecstasy'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 an idiot.

13. 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 cr*p.

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

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[Lisa28]

Love it! But also not so funny at the same time - bit close to home!

[Totster]

Love it! But also not so funny at the same time - bit close to home!

Uncanny isn't it !

totster

[Lisa28]

and just a little bit scary!

L

[suegha]

Wait 'til you hit 40 - most of these are entrenched! They were also very funny...

[backflip]

Rather than checking out the hip new joint, you buy a new hip joint.