What did you do when you turned 30?

I remember the evening as the "Knights of the Round Table"

there were about 12 of us, all guys, and we sat at a round table in a Chinese restaurant

I think we must have gone clubbing afterwards, but I don't really remember that

I thought at the time I should now start behaving as a mature adult,
but like Amodean that has yet to happen hehe...

on the subject of turning 50, my mum tells the story of when her dad turned 50 he was utterly
morose and miserable, thinking that life was over.

Her grandad (probably in his 70's) ended up saying to him "Don't worry Bert, you're a young man yet"

 

Took a sail on a Trimaran off La Haina,Maui with some fine women and was warned off for sailing too close to a sub-tender. Girls had their tops off and were waving at the sailors who were waving back. Lived in a '58 Chevy station wagon next to THE BANYON TREE. (if you've been there--you know of which tree I reference).

 

I went on a trip to Tobago and sat on the beach and felt good.

The only birthday that I ever sat and really thought about was turning 25. I had finished university and was working and bought my first car and a condo and it was a stop and think time. I no longer felt like a kid and was a grown up. It was a really strange thinking process but in a positive way.

 

I can relate to that Heat. I have grown up slowly. In a way I was always very mature but in some ways, namely material/modern world stuff, it has taken a while. This past year or so I've been thinking a lot. Partially because I have been very focused on other people that I rarely thought about myself any of these other years. This one is kind of selfish. In a positive way, I think.

 

I think some birthdays make you think a little more than others. We evolve and are at different places in life so it is reflective of that.

I have not had another year yet that I really evaluated as much as then so perhaps I am due for one. I refuse to have a midlife crisis so I hope not.

 

I turn 30 later this year and I'm a bit apprehensive about it, but this thread is making me feel better

 

I never had an "AHA!"..year birthday..I have pretty much been the same person my whole life..it's kinda nice when your grandkids tell yo to stop acting childish..or roll their eyes..

 

i think i worked about 11 hours. then i went out and had a beer, then went home and went to sleep. i really didn't think much of it; i'm really not a birthday guy.

i still don't think it's entirely sunk in yet. which is normal, it always takes me a couple months to start giving my age accurately after a birthday.

as a vaguely interesting aside, i hadn't gotten carded when buying beer for probably a couple years before my 30th birthday, yet it has happened about 5 times since then.

 

I haven't been carded in years either, but I only ever buy from one place, lol.

 

Nobody Cards Me Anynore Even When I Beg Them To...:bigcry::bigcry:



Tears Glen.

 

that would be 1978, which i think was the year i moved off of bed spring acres and went to work in the packing plant for harry and david's. near medford.

that was also the year i grew a beard and let my hair fro.

oh and i was living in that little motel type place at the north end of ashland, where i had the vox jaguar and the pia modules i built to play it through, because it would still be a couple of years before i got my first computer that worked. which was around 81 when i had moved to eugene, because i remember burning it out, mt saint helens and raygun getting elected that year.

but that was still in the future when i turned 30, and the world was still mostly sane in the u.s., even if i was flat broke most of that year, and the year before and the year after.

 

ID please.

 

I hosted a Bunko party.

 

For some time now, forty has been the 'new' thirty. It makes more of a difference with the people around you. If they are young relative to your age, that thirty makes more of an impact on you. For me it was number fifty. I was suddenly one of the older ones at work. It helped that I was in better physical condition than nearly all the young people at work. Not that I am an exercise nut, I simply took a little bit better care of myself.
It is something that takes reflection. I did not start to get 'old' physically til I turned forty-six. But I did not notice until I was forty-eight. You begin to notice that you begin to 'slip'. Then begins the learning to age gracefully, because it will happen no matter how much you exercise or how 'cool' you try to be.
Meliai, do not worry yourself over it.

- JKHolman

 

I've been asked for my ID in a supermarket a few years ago, just for a couple of beers. What was really ridicilous about it is that I was at least 10 years older than the minimum age already. And that age was 16 (netherlands has changed minimum age for buying alcohol from 16 to 18 this year )! Surely I didn't look as a 16 year old when I was 28.
Coffeeshops here are supposed to ask for ID when they doubt you are 18 or older, I haven't got carded at a coffeeshop in a decade

 

I'm not looking forward to turning 30. Won't make a big deal of it.

 

I gave myself a present and ended up going to Africa and hiking up Mt. Kilimanjaro. I enjoyed it as much as I could and it's good that I can say I did it, but I kinda wish I'd done a safari instead.

 

I don't recall...

 

Well, it was in another millenium after all.

 

I waited one year and turned 31. Hell I can't remember.