>1. You leave clubs before the end to "beat the rush".
  >2. You  get more excited about having a roast on a Sunday than  going
 clubbing. 
 >3. You stop dreaming of becoming a  professional footballer and start
 >dreaming of having a son who might  instead. 
 >4. Before throwing the local paper away, you look  through the property
 section. 
 >5. All of a sudden, Tony  Blair is not 46, he's only 46. 
 >6. Before going out anywhere, you  ask what the parking is like. 
 >7. Rather than throw a knackered  pair of trainers out, you keep them
 because they'll be all right for the  garden. 
 >8. You buy your first ever T-shirt without anything  written on it. 
 >9. Instead of laughing at the innovations  catalogue that falls out of
 the newspaper, you suddenly see both the  benefit and money saving
 properties of a plastic winter cover for your  garden bench and an
 electronic mole repellent for the lawn. Not to  mention the plastic man
 for the car to deter would-be  thieves. 
 >10. You start to worry about your parents'  health. 
 >11. Sure, you have more disposable income, but everything  you want to
 buy costs between 200 and 500 quid. 
 >12. You  don't get funny looks when you buy a Disney video or a Wallace
 and Gromit  bubble bath, as the sales assistant assumes they are for  your
 child. 
 >13. Pop music all starts to sound  ****. 
 >14. You opt for Pizza Express over Pizza Hut because they  don't have any
 pictures on the menus and anyway, they do a really nice  half-bottle of
 house white. 
 >15. You always have enough  milk in. 
 >16. To compensate for the fact that you have little  desire to go
 clubbing, you instead frequent really loud tapas restaurants  and
 franchise pubs with wacky names in the mistaken belief that you have  not
 turned into your parents. 
 >17. While flicking through  the TV channels, you happen upon C4's
 TimeTeam with Tony Robinson. You  get drawn in. 
 >18. The benefits of a pension scheme become  clear. 
 >19. You go out of your way to pick up a colour chart from  B&Q. 
 >20. You wish you had a shed. 
 >21. You have  a shed. 
 >22. You actually find yourself saying "They don't make  'em like that
 anymore" and "I remember when there were only 3 TV  channels" and "Of
 course, in my day...." 
 >23. Radio 2 play  more songs you know than Radio 1 - and Terry Wogan has some really  interesting guests on. 
 >24. Instead of tutting at old people who  take ages to get off the
 bus,you tut at schoolchildren whose diction is  poor. 
 >25. When sitting outside a pub you become envious of their  hanging
 baskets. 
 >26. You make an effort to be in and out  of the curry house by 11. 
 >27. You find yourself saying "is it  cold in here or is it just me?" 
 Then of course you need to find  someone old enough to send these onto!!!!!  
 Easy.......


