Posted on 07/24/2017 10:00:35 AM PDT by rktman
There’s an old proverb (or maybe it’s just the title of a Broadway play) that reminds us of the universal truth: “You can’t take it with you.” Though they’re talking about life after death, I believe it applies to your 40s, as well. If you’re a man on the cusp of middle age, there’s a long list of things you should be leaving in the past. I’m talking about everything from scooters that would be mistaken for a child’s to wildly age-inappropriate clothing to the single worst haircut any man can have—especially someone at your dignified station in life.
Now, without further ado, here are the 40 things you should probably say goodbye to immediately. And once you’ve cut these things out of your life, be sure to learn the 40 words and phrases no man over 40 should ever say.
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I live at the beach in Florida..... unless I’m mowing my lawn.....all I wear are Flip Flops! ....and a baseball cap.
“...I usually buy a cap from the city I’m visiting.”
I have a fair number of caps from the Nat’l Parks I’ve visited. I’ve never been to Slovakia but half the people in my town are Yugoslavs. Their hats are mostly covered with fish scales!
You are a lucky s!*t, that’s for sure. lol
Or a different browser. I don’t have the luxury of either... at work.
At home, I still call mine “Slaps” but that be racissss.
Have you ever been arrested?
Lol.... I forgot to mention the board shorts and T-shirt.
Have you ever actually tried to talk to them? It's impossible.
Ha ha. I guess that’s what smart phones are for?
Thank You.
Without #4 and #1, nothing else would matter.
:-)
Actually phones are worse. Perfect candidates for spam websites and it is almost impossible to back up and out of a website once they have ya locked in.
PS. I get your joke. :)
Tramadol seems to work for me.
In the ER they gave me two injections of Demerol ....................
we have a neighbor who wears puka shells every day. No matter what else he has on. He looks ridiculous.
Puka shell necklaces. Now that takes me back to when I lived in Hawaii. And the Macademia Nut Leis.
Some people get stuck in their heyday and never leave no matter how old they get.
There really are guys in their late fifties still wearing mullets, cruising around town in their Trans Am with the t-tops out, Lover Boy on the eight track turned all the way up. Probably a few of them wear puka shell necklaces.
Then there are the guys in their late 40’s with their Ray-Bans on lanyards driving their IROC-Z Camaros around with Mötley Crüe turned all the way up, reeking of Polo.
And, I’m sure many on FR can recall an uncle with the Bryl-Creem and the ‘57 Chevy.
Women get trapped in time too, just one look at Brigitte Macron would tell you that.
My kind of woman. 8~)
Makes me think of Matthew McConaughey in "Dazed and Confused", "I get older, they stay the same age".
Or "Billy Madison", when he makes his 'triumphant' return to High School, in the Trans-Am and REO Speedwagon T-Shirt.
Such movie characters resonate because we all know somebody like that, or several somebodies. There are whole towns of them in Jersey with the Springsteen. When I was a kid I could always spot the little old lady Elvis fans around Christmas time. Electric candles in the windows with blue bulbs. I didn’t even have to guess that she dyed her hair jet black and always would.
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