Approaching 40 Gifts

The summer of her 39th year, Eleanor could be found most evenings on a hill (known locally as Robert's Hump) doing aerobics of her own devising.

"I'd like the garden salad with the blue cheese dressing, and my mother would like me married by age thirty."

"Your contents have shifted."

"I never thought turning eighty would be so much fun!"

'It's perfectly normal for middle-aged men to put on a little weight.'

Gary turns 40.

Inside One's Memory Bank

"Oh, please. Lord, no ... I'm only 50! No, please – anything but reading glasses!"

Treat Dispensers for the Middle-Aged

"Faster! Middle age is gaining on you!"

"You're in perfect health and look half your age – I'm prescribing something to help you shut up about it."

"Quick, I need a drink. Someone just called me Ma'am."

The Gingerbread Man Hits 50.

"Enjoy yourself while you can because before you know it, you've surpassed your 'Best Used By' date."

Ed's receding hairline!

Middle Age: When you finally get your head together, and your body starts to fall apart!

The Woodstock Medical-Emergency Tent - 1994

"Can you hurry up with the cake? I have to travel the world, have a career and start a family"

"As the years go by, and my hair recedes, I comb my parting with such sweet sorrow."

'Many Happy Redundan... HA! RETURNS of the day, Mackay.'

'Push'n 50, but ya still got it!!'

'I thought forty is the new thirty.'

"You've come to a fork in the road – age-defying or age-appropriate?"

"Just when I’ve reconciled the fact that I’m in my 40s, my 50th birthday shows up."

'Great news, Methuselah Tests show you'll live to be 100!'

'Tell the doctor to hurry. It's an emergency. I just turned middle aged!'

Middle Age: When rolling out of bed is easy, but getting up off the floor isn't!

Midlife: You Are Here.

'After the age of fifty the 'c' word always means colonoscopy.'

"You're 30 now. Where do you see yourself in five years?" "Thirty five."

'Your 40th? Well maybe if you're talking about the number of cans you've had!'

"Do you know the biggest thing I've learned in my thirty nine years?"

Middle Age: When an 'All Nighter' means you didn't have to get up to pee!

"Gee....Al's losing his pimento!...."