With all respect to my TeeBeeDee mates posting for the "you know you're 50 when" discussion, I think there are a lot of funny things about turning 40. So, here's a thread for those in my decade - please add your ideas!
You Know You're 40 When...
the checker at the grocery calls you ma'am instead of miss
the reading glasses in the drug store don't look so dorky anymore
two words...sensible shoes
your handbag grows yearly - better to hold your reading glasses and sensible shoes
you raise the median age in your kickboxing class by your sheer presence
you hear a construction worker whistle at someone and don't even turn around to see if it was you
Posted: Aug 9, 07 5:57pm
(If you're a woman....)
You know you're 40 when you have a dozen eggs left and most of them are postdated!
Posted: Oct 30, 07 8:46am
In the refrigerator, or in the ovaries?
Posted: Nov 27, 07 7:12pm
I hear ya!!! Tick-tock-tick-tock...
Posted: Aug 9, 07 6:00pm
You know you're 40, when your 20-something pal responds to you by saying "word" and you have no idea what the hell he's talking you about.
Posted: Aug 9, 07 8:11pm
you walk down the street, feel something brush at your heels and its your butt.
Posted: Nov 27, 07 7:13pm
lol-lol-lol-lol-lol Thanks! I needed that!
Posted: Feb 24, 08 12:22pm
bubbadave, SERIOUSLY FUNNY!!!!
Posted: Mar 29, 08 4:06pm
LMAOBT Oh my!!
Posted: Aug 10, 07 11:03am
a dinner reservation for 9pm sounds absolutely insane
Posted: Nov 12, 07 9:24pm
Really. 9pm's fine as long as you have them deliver a gurney with dessert!
Posted: Aug 14, 07 4:28am
I love all of these answers!
What I really hate is when I am talking to a person younger than myself and they tell me their age and I think...I could be your mother!
Posted: Sep 25, 07 6:29am
And then they tell me that they just became "Grandma."
Posted: Nov 2, 07 4:14pm
And that younger person gives you blank looks when you mention "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", or Nixon's resignation or anything that happened before 1985
Posted: Jan 19, 08 6:15pm
hey mami LOL
Posted: May 7, 08 11:15am
I've become victim to this way of thinknig as well. Argghh. :)
Posted: Sep 25, 07 8:04am
When your divorced, and hornier than ever!
Posted: Jan 19, 08 6:18pm
are you saying this is you? do you stay hot ?get in touch with me i'm a horny something myself
Posted: May 16, 08 4:01pm
Just hornier period.....
I am hornier then when I was in high school.
Whew!
Posted: Sep 25, 07 8:19am
Several of you know you're 40 when resonate for me but at 50 not at 40.
On my 40th birthday, my mother cried when she called on my birthday.
I am sir and maam all the way, as a sign of respect. Except for those I don't like, and shan't express how I describe them.
Dime store glasses are a necessity. So are my hearing aids. I hope that other don't think they're as dorky as I do.
RE: Kickboxing. I asked the sinsei who was the oldest kickboxer in his class. His answer, "My 70 year old father stuck with for about ten weeks. Then, you're the oldest". I gave it up, but still think I can drop or cripple a punk with one shot.
Posted: Oct 30, 07 7:18am
You know you're 40 when you start to miss your 20-something times.
Posted: Oct 30, 07 8:17am
You know you're 40 when the switch turns off and you, all of a sudden, need glasses.
Posted: Jan 19, 08 6:27pm
And your arms are suddenly too short when you are trying to read a menu . . .
Posted: Oct 30, 07 9:35am
From a guys perspective...
I remember turning 40, so....
'You Know You're 40 When...'
~Thirty yr. old gals look good now!
~Sensible shoes make sense.(Us too, ladies!)
~You FINALLY understand everything your girlfriends tried to tell you....
~You realize your parents were right after-all.
~Four door cars seem OK now
~You know you'll NEVER be a Teen rock star
~And... you know it it your bones!
Posted: Dec 3, 07 7:17pm
..Thirty yr. old gals look good now!
Sheesh Obi!
Posted: Nov 1, 07 7:34pm
You know you are 40 when you think 50 is old!
Bite me.
Posted: Nov 1, 07 8:12pm
You know you are 40 when 50 and 60 begin to look younger than they used to!
You know you are 40 when doctors look like kids.
You know you are 40 when someone says "hot" and you add "flash" to finish their thought.
Posted: Nov 2, 07 5:09am
From the Olde Philosopher:
When I passed forty I dropped pretense,
'cause men like women who got some sense.
--Maya Angelou
Posted: Mar 29, 08 4:10pm
Damn Straight! lololol
Posted: Nov 2, 07 3:09pm
when chocolate becomes more of a sacrament than a rite and making snow angels in the nude seems like a darn good idea.....
Posted: Nov 2, 07 3:45pm
Hit 45 a few weeks ago and promply decided to celebrate my birthday by celebrating one day for every year I have lived.
Posted: Nov 2, 07 5:20pm
I really knew I was over 40 when upon boarding an airplane, all I could think about was having a twentysomething man sit near me so I could ask him to lift my luggage and place it in the overhead.
Best,
Candyce
Posted: Nov 12, 07 4:46pm
I have to look at the newspaper sometimes to know what day it is.
Posted: Nov 12, 07 4:51pm
When people give you a 'daily pill case' as an "over the hill" 40th bday joke and you think . . . COOL, I NEEDED ONE OF THESE!!!
Posted: Nov 12, 07 5:22pm
You feel OK with doing what you want to do, instead of what someone else wants you to do!
Posted: Mar 29, 08 4:12pm
Amen! another nonconformist after my own heart
Posted: Nov 14, 07 5:40am
Sadly, I am not kidding . . . I JUST had a conversation with a co-worker about really good, classic, music (classic, not classical) and one of our younger workmates approached as I was mentioning The Beatles, Iron Butterfly, Three Dog Night, and a personal favorite, The Turtles. This KID had the nerve to ask if I was talking about a recent trip to the zoo!!!!!
Posted: May 16, 08 3:59pm
I had someone ask me who Journey was and what Baby's I was talking about that sing.
LOL
Posted: Nov 16, 07 6:24am
When Happiness is (Remember HAPPINESS IS????????) a grey hair falling out instead of a perfectly good brown one!
Posted: Nov 21, 07 1:47pm
When my wife asked if she should pull out my gray hairs and I told her "No, those are future comeovers."
Posted: Dec 3, 07 7:33pm
I have 6 more months to get to 40 and you're all depressing me---- is there anything for a single 40yo guy to look forward to?
Posted: Dec 4, 07 1:55pm
39 year old women??
Posted: Dec 19, 07 1:09pm
40 to 50 more good years in which to start actually using what you learned in the last 40.
Yea, by now you should have learned the real fact that one 40 (or even a 39 tip-o-the hat to CelticKnot) is twice as good as a 20.
Posted: Feb 5, 08 10:54am
there's no reason to be depressed. i've LOVED being in my forties and it just keeps getting better! 50 is just a few years around the corner, and i say BRING IT ON!
Posted: Feb 24, 08 12:24pm
Yes. WE still have not met in "real life" :>
What's the deal here, has he already left the campfire? MG44s profile is not active... at all....
Posted: Mar 29, 08 4:13pm
A sense of humor? Just teasin' hon.
Posted: Dec 4, 07 2:01pm
When someone says "my bad" and that pisses you off.
When someone points out a "hot new girl" in the office and the girl is your daughters age.
You realize "hot" usually just means young.
You realize pre-marital sex is the only sex even happening.
Beer is your very best friend.
You start caring less and less about just about everything.
You can't do your dishes to some lead singer that sound like the Cuckoo bird from the Cocoa Puffs commercials.
Posted: Jan 20, 08 2:26am
Joe, this is truly the good, the bad, and the ugly of being forty ( and above) and some of your answers fit in all three categories at the same time.
I think you're funny. It's either because I'm fifty and losing my mind or because you're forty and losing your mind or because you're funny. Or all three.
See what I mean. I love caring less and less. I love it.
Posted: Dec 19, 07 1:29pm
Now that I am 56, forty sounds young!!
Posted: Feb 5, 08 10:29am
You know you're in your forties when the music from your high school years are playing on the 'oldies' station.
Merry thanks for the tip this November I will celebrate for 43 days Woo Hoo!
Posted: Feb 5, 08 10:54am
"two words...sensible shoes"
WORD! (ok, two words!)
Posted: Feb 20, 08 10:19pm
Turning 40 (Which I am on the downside of that hill) there is one great thing that happens. You have the best sex your ever had. No kids, no worry about becoming preg. and you have your own place to do it. Relax and enjoy!!!
Posted: Feb 20, 08 11:53pm
You all seem to be forgeting the best part about being 40+. You now know how to have really good sex!!! It takes years to master the finer details, and get over all of the insecurities, and basically learn the techniques. There is no replacement for knowledge.