{"id":44,"date":"2009-01-24T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T18:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrnanay.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2019-08-28T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T22:43:57","slug":"you-know-youre-pushing-forty-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrnanay.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/24\/you-know-youre-pushing-forty-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You know you\u2019re pushing forty when:"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As I sit here on my 39th birthday, I am contemplating life. It seems to go in phases doesn\u2019t it, or rather in decades. You\u2019re a child for ten or so years, then a teenager. Soon enough you\u2019ve made it as a twenty something and then that pivotal thirty crops up. By then you feel just a little pressure\u2026you\u2019re not quite middle aged yet, but it\u2019s just around the corner, so watch out. Before you know it the big four-o is looming. You reflect on your life and wonder \u2018what the hell happened to my thirties?\u2019 \u2018What did I do exactly?\u2019 You don\u2019t even remember half your twenties, and it\u2019s not just because of the alcohol consumption in college. Or maybe it is. Your childhood is so far away in the past it seems like a dream. A very nice one too! Ah to be a child again. But I digress.<\/p>\n

<\/a>When I was growing up I used to hear the phrase \u2018life begins at forty\u2019 and thought \u2018man that\u2019s a long way off\u2019. In fact it seemed like a few lifetimes away. It\u2019s amazing how it creeps up on you, isn\u2019t it. I just hope and pray it\u2019s all true.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got ONE year left\u2026and the signs are there \u2026so here we go\u2026 Thirty nine signs the big \u2018four-o\u2019 is coming.<\/p>\n

You know you\u2019re pushing forty when:
\n1. Your son asks \u201cwho\u2019s Billy Ray Cyrus?\u201d
\n2. You ask your kids \u201cwho the hell is Hannah Montana?\u201d
\n3. Teenagers annoy the heck out of you!
\n4. You start eyeing the suspenders when you go shopping at Wal-Mart. The boxers look pretty tempting too.
\n5. You hear \u2018Get into the Groove\u2019 on the oldies station and remember dancing to it when it first came out.
\n6. You remember where you were when President Regan was shot.
\n7. You know what a Commodore 64 is!
\n8. You\u2019re still happy with your cassette tapes… thank you very much.
\n9. You start going to more funerals than weddings.
\n10. In second grade you thought your teacher was old\u2026 now you are even older.
\n11. You remember life before cell phones.
\n12. You still use a VCR.
\n13. Grandparents don\u2019t seem so old…you’ve met Grandparents your same age.
\n14. You never thought you’d see the day when a black man and a white woman were fighting for a presidential nomination…how old is McCain again?
\n15. Your wife\u2019s co-worker says she was only 8 when 90210 was on TV…after doing some simple math you realize you\u2019re 14 years older.
\n16. A good night on the town means eating out.
\n17. When they find out your age young people say \u2018I didn\u2019t know you were that old.\u2019
\n18. You start hanging round with sixty year olds so you can feel like the young one of the group.
\n19. Family members start saying annoying things like \u2018you\u2019re not getting any younger.\u2019
\n20. You start seriously thinking about the pension plan you haven\u2019t got.
\n21. You start complaining that the music your neighbors are playing is too loud.
\n22. You’d just as soon have cereal for dinner.
\n23. You remember when you had three television stations to choose from and they all went off the air at night after playing the national anthem.
\n24. You just can\u2019t stay up all night drinking any more\u2026and show up for work.
\n25. You start thinking that maybe you need to act more responsible and mature.
\n26. You fall asleep during movies.
\n27. You start saying things like \u2018when I was a kid, things were different\u2019 or \u2018kids today have it easy\u2019, and \u2018we had to walk to school\u2026and back.\u2019
\n28. You think today\u2019s music is crap, just like what your dad said about any music you listened to that wasn\u2019t Country.
\n29. You remember when all kids played outside\u2026where are they now?
\n30. Someone offers you a seat on the bus. And you don’t refuse.
\n31. You start paying attention to the medical ads on television.
\n32. Step one of any exercise program begins with \u2018get off the couch\u2019.
\n33. The grey hairs begin to outnumber the black hairs.
\n34. And you pray that the grey ones won\u2019t fall out.
\n35. You have more in common with your parents than you do with your kids.
\n36. First thing you do in the morning is the obituary column, and if you name isn\u2019t there, you get out of bed.
\n37. You lived through the Eighties the first time around, which means today you’re wise enough to avoid hideous style revivals like luminous clothes, jump suits and leg warmers.
\n38. You are no longer carded when you purchase alcohol
\n39. Paul Newman movies start to make sense.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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