raynman
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Recently turned 39 and had the realization I’m nearly middle aged. Can’t wait to lean into it hard and have my midlife crisisBeing called middle aged is the best compliment some here can ask for
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Whenever I would see a guy driving an exotic sports car, my first thought was "midlife crisis". It was only as I went through having kids that I realized that I couldn't afford a sports car before middle age. With 3 kids on my insurance, a sports care would cost too much.
raynman
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I‘m single and childless and I still can’t afford an exotic sports car haha. Ive refrained from the avocado toast but had a few too many iced coffees from Starbucks.
Cardiac Jerks
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There are a lot of Mazda miata convertibles up here. I always like to tell my wife it’s guys having a midlife crisis but “on a budget”.
Lempo
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Nothing underlines my failure as a man like the fact that whenever a car model gets mentioned, my usual reaction is "no idea, does it have an equivalent in GTA V?".
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Hey now, don’t say that about @MinJaBen
I wish it were midlife…
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Personally I’d rather have a Miata than a lot of mid-to-high end sports cars.
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Starbucks iced chai has been my gateway drug into fancy coffee shop chai….and that’s about as pricey as my mid life existential journey is going to get. I’m too cheap for an expensive vehicle. I’m going the other way, camping out of beat up pickups and watching sunsets from the toughest to get to pretty places I can find as far from human contact as possible.
Wait….I think I might’ve gone straight to elderly.
Derailed75
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I slow played my way to my mid life crisis. Started in my mid 30' with a small inexpensive Yamaha Vstar 650 cruiser and worked my way up to an expensive Indian that I bought when I was 43.
LakeLivin
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Back in the 90's my ex-wife had a Miata convertible I used to drive. It was fun but felt kinda like a toy compared to the Porsche 944s I drove for close to a decade. The 944s weren't especially fast but were really solid and handled like they were on rails.
My 944s weren't the result of a mid life crises, rather me taking advantage of what I suspect was one of the best used car buys of all time. I had two, each purchased 2 years old with only around 16k miles. I paid mid teens for each, about half of their new retail cost. That ended when traffic came to a stop on I40 in RTP and I was rear ended by a 16 wheeler. Totaled my 944 and dominoed another 4 or 5 cars in front of me. No air bag in the 944 back then but I walked away totally unscathed. If I had driven my base Nissan pickup truck that day I'm sure I'd have sustained serious injuries (or worse).
My 944s weren't the result of a mid life crises, rather me taking advantage of what I suspect was one of the best used car buys of all time. I had two, each purchased 2 years old with only around 16k miles. I paid mid teens for each, about half of their new retail cost. That ended when traffic came to a stop on I40 in RTP and I was rear ended by a 16 wheeler. Totaled my 944 and dominoed another 4 or 5 cars in front of me. No air bag in the 944 back then but I walked away totally unscathed. If I had driven my base Nissan pickup truck that day I'm sure I'd have sustained serious injuries (or worse).
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raynman
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On Reddit there’s a long standing joke that Miata stands for Miata is always the answer whenever people ask what car they should get. There’s a subreddit dedicated to what people fit in them as their daily drivers and it’s hilarious.
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Oddly enough, the first car I ever owned is probably the only one that could be considered a "sports car", even though it didn't handle like one. It was a 66 Mustang with a 289. Some guy that worked with my dad bought it in 1967 brand new and only put about 20,000 miles on it in almost 20 years and didn't drive it much in winters so it was in good condition. I was a senior in high school and didn't have enough money to buy it outright, so my Dad and I bought it together.
That thing had some get up and go though, but the handling was terrible and I almost rolled it one night on a road I wasn't familiar with a sharp corner. Still loved that car though.
When I graduated college and moved out east, I sold my 1/2 to my brother and then a few years later, he and my Dad sold it completely. Hindsight being 20/20, I wish I could have kept it.
I never got the bug to buy a sportster of any sort since then, other than when I see an older Mustang for sale. I've driven a pick-up truck since 2006.
That thing had some get up and go though, but the handling was terrible and I almost rolled it one night on a road I wasn't familiar with a sharp corner. Still loved that car though.
When I graduated college and moved out east, I sold my 1/2 to my brother and then a few years later, he and my Dad sold it completely. Hindsight being 20/20, I wish I could have kept it.
I never got the bug to buy a sportster of any sort since then, other than when I see an older Mustang for sale. I've driven a pick-up truck since 2006.
hblueridgegal
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My late hubby had a few Miatas and a Honda S2000. Many fun times were had cruising around especially when we could visit the mountains and tool around on the curvy roads. One day I was driving down Spring Forest Rd in the S2000 when a City of Raleigh utility just drifted into my lane at 45 mph and no time to stop. When I came to a group of people were surrounding me with a fire extinguisher. I remember the fumes from the airbag burning my eyes and I was trying to escape. Luckily, I only had a few cracked ribs and some scratches but that was kinda the end of my joyrides in such cars.
I follow both of those…
I’ve had 10 foot boards sticking up out of mine on many occasions.
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Okay, last one was getting a little long in the tooth, as is Jerry Seinfeld's brand of 'humor'. Carry on.
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I guess this isn’t the time to mention that I miss Bill Hicks.
And I’m looking back to make sure I didn’t miss his mention in the last thread: no one had used the word “hicks” in the last 10 months? Are we ok??
Unsustainable
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I can definitely NOT recommend spending 25+ straight hours in the Philly airport...or any airport for that matter. (Although the Doha airport is quite a sight to see.)
HisIceness
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I've flown in and out of there before. Nothing to write home about. In fact to me it seemed, cramped, and dirty. Excellent representation of Philadelphia? Well you be the judge.
LaGuardia, that place sucks. The food options were a shitty pretzel vendor and the vending machine.
But really, no airport quite pisses me off like Charlotte.
Only been through Charlotte once (rerouted connection), and basically entered in one gate, walked two gates over, and waited for the next flight. Seemed fine based on that (very) limited experience.
LaGuardia seemed better to me last time I was there (August), but it was my destination and I didn't have to go between terminals or wait out a layover. Had to do that there about a decade ago, and it was a hellhole then.
No such thing as a bad time to say you miss bill hicks.
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