Am I beginning my mid-life crisis?

[scottinnj]

I just downloaded "October" and "Boy" (U2) on my iTunes to replace my lost CDs. And I've been reading my Bloom County book my sister sent me.

I'm 39, and my life's motto is: "I may grow older, but I refuse to grow up." I find I'm quoting myself less and less lately. Is this the start of my mid-life crisis? Am I doomed to nostalgic thoughts of the movie "Smokey and the Bandit" and Pontiac Fieros?


Heres the kicker: My kids think the Monty Python movie "The Holy Grail" is weird and unfunny. Bonus question-should I beat them to death, or put them down mercifully like a dog at the vet?

[Snacks]

I just downloaded "October" and "Boy" (U2) on my iTunes to replace my lost CDs. And I've been reading my Bloom County book my sister sent me.

I'm 39, and my life's motto is: "I may grow older, but I refuse to grow up." I find I'm quoting myself less and less lately. Is this the start of my mid-life crisis? Am I doomed to nostalgic thoughts of the movie "Smokey and the Bandit" and Pontiac Fieros?


Heres the kicker: My kids think the Monty Python movie "The Holy Grail" is weird and unfunny. Bonus question-should I beat them to death, or put them down mercifully like a dog at the vet?

You know my answer to you is always pray!!! lol but I think you get im always kidding.

As for Monty Python movies. I'm close to your age and find nothing funny about monty python movies.

Maybe this has nothing to do with age but taste. But then again 39 is mid life (I think)

Dont worry about it you will be fine!

[Yerdaddy]

Uless you're listening to the CDs on the sound system of your 14-foot chopped Harley Davidson and stroking your Viagra-induced boner to Opus' seductively-drawn hippie love interests while parked next to your local high school then I'd say it's not a mid-life crisis. It is, however, the beginning stages of the crisis: realizing the fact that you really are old. And since we're the same age, when you start to go into the real acting out phase I want you to get on a plane to Cambodia and we'll take kickboxing lessons together and kick the shit out of undernourished poor people in our matching leather jackets and red leather Loverboy pants and wake up piss-drunk, waletless and spooning in some Phnom Penh shanty's gutter. Let's light the fire in our bellies - and then hose those fires down - right!

[patsopinion]

Heres the kicker: My kids think the Monty Python movie "The Holy Grail" is weird and unfunny. Bonus question-should I beat them to death, or put them down mercifully like a dog at the vet?

the must be made to understand what they have done wrong
beat them

[Chris from TX]

When you star saying things like "take it one day at a time" everyday, then maybe you have entered the crisis. And if you have such a good sense of humor, evidenced by Monty Python/Holy Grail appreciation, maybe you won't take yourself too seriously: a big contributing factor to a mid-life crisis.

Take this with a grain of salt, I'm younger and stupider. But I do like Monty Python.

And no beatings, just make them watch it over and over and over and over.... like Lancelot running to the wedding massacre, repetition=funny.

[Thomas Merton]

Python Rules.

I was introducing Poe's "The Pit & The Pendulum" in class today and asked about the Spanish Inquistition. While one student was trying to explain, another yelled out "No one expects the Spanish Inquisition"....

[cupcakelove]

Beat them to death.......























with a cat.

[DarkHippie]

Uless you're listening to the CDs on the sound system of your 14-foot chopped Harley Davidson and stroking your Viagra-induced boner to Opus' seductively-drawn hippie love interests while parked next to your local high school then I'd say it's not a mid-life crisis. It is, however, the beginning stages of the crisis: realizing the fact that you really are old. And since we're the same age, when you start to go into the real acting out phase I want you to get on a plane to Cambodia and we'll take kickboxing lessons together and kick the shit out of undernourished poor people in our matching leather jackets and red leather Loverboy pants and wake up piss-drunk, waletless and spooning in some Phnom Penh shanty's gutter. Let's light the fire in our bellies - and then hose those fires down - right!

I just came

[Bulldogcakes]

Take YerDaddy up on his offer. After the trip to southeast Asia, you can be one of those Dads who buys a sportscar and dumps the wife for a girlfriend half his age.

[ralphbxny]

Beat them to death.......























with a cat.

NICE!!!!

[lleeder]

The fact that you have a "motto" makes me think yes.

[ChrisTheCop]

One word: Taser.


Either to snap you out of it.


Or to make your kids like Monty P.



Or both.

[PapaBear]

I've had a mid life crisis about every 2 years since I turned 21. Every time I have one, I think, "Well... at least I'm only half-way through my life". Two of my three kids love Monty Python, so I'm good with that.

I was, however, very annoyed when they wouldn't stop showing "Blazing Saddles" at our big family Christmas event three or four years ago. That was just too much for my youngest kid. It probably wouldn't have been too much, if his mother wasn't such a prude, though.

My point... The "mid life crisis" is a myth. It's a name people give to the changes that people go through every day, when those changes don't fit into the expectations of those around them.

[thejives]

39?

That is old.

If you aren't having a midlife crisis, you should consider it.
It's better than being dead, right?