to commence mid life crisis? big birthday panic

I went out for a meal with the mrs, my mom and dad. On the way we had to pop into my dad's club, where he's the chairman. We had a swift half while he was in the upstairs clubroom doing whatever it was he had to do. After 5 minutes or so my mother said she'd go find him, followed by the wife, looking for both of them five minutes later.

Sitting downstairs for another ten minutes, I started to get a bit lonely thinking wtf are they doing up there! So, upstairs to the club room I went and rounding the corner into the main area I heard "SURPRISE!" :omg:

The room was filled with loads of people from my past, probably about 60 friends and family, some of whom I hadn't seen since my army days 6 years earlier. Quite a few had come a long way, some from as far away as Germany. Anyway, like most of you.. I pulled up a sandbag, swung a lamp and got drunk. :lol:

The mrs said it was murder trying to keep it a secret. :lol:

Several years later, I pulled the same stunt on my terminally ill father in law. A kind of living wake. All of his relatives made the effort to come from all over the globe and as far away as Canada to see him off with some well travelled bottles of scotch. They joked that it was much better than going to a funeral. It's a bit morbid I know. :dry: But the moral of the story looks like it could be "Don't put off getting drunk and get the laffs in while you can!" :yesnod:

Happy 40th young man. Damnnn that sounds sooo bad. :lol:

midlife crisis started immediately on my 40th. Spent the days after thinking about in which convertible I may look young and cool. Decided for a mate's Reliant Scimitar SS1 then.
As it got worse I adopted the TF. Feel better now.

:drive:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

40 isn't so bad. 45 was much worse for me, that's the year my heart stopped working :pinch:

Just don't do what my brother in law did at his 40th. He got royally pissed and agreed to let his (also pissed) undertaker mate (dry)shave off his beard. :oops:
Apparently he also forgot that his reason for growing the beard was that he is bloody ugly without one!

really? wrote:
what would you do on your 40th / what did you do?

:beer:

My 40th ( I know I don't look old enough) is next April

I'm flying to Madrid to join my adopted brother..

It's his birthday the same day..but he's younger than me

We plan to hire a Ferrari each for the day.. And enjoy some roads around Madrid for our birthdays