We are walking clichés
It occurred to us last night that we are both stereotypes. In fact we are downright clichés
Rich: Age 41, degree in physics and electronics, married to a bottle blonde with 2.4 children (the young one is only two, so she only counts as a 0.4), BMW, Labrador, big home in country. Plus he is a software engineer (I’ll get lynched if I call him “computer programmer”) who had a classic mid-life crisis, bang on the dot of turning 40 (pun intended).
Yes, you guessed it, the mid-life crisis was the photography of nudes. There are a heck of a lot of computer programmers on MM who have a mid-life crisis and start photographing nudes. The poor man – even his mid-life crisis is a cliché. The only difference being, of course, that he happens to be very good at the “photographing nudes” bit. What might have originally started out as a mid-life crisis has actually turned into an all-consuming passion which will no doubt carry him through to his next life crisis, due at 60 if the statistics are to be believed.
The only stereotypical life event due in two years time is the divorce (most men divorce at 43 apparently) where he is supposed to run off with a younger model…..I kid you not. This may yet happen of course (over my dead body), as no-one can predict the future with absolute certainty.
Lin: Age 39, mid-life crisis due next year (if women have time to actually get them), degree in law, chartered accountant, married with 2.4 kids, a health-nut, drives thirsty off-roader, reads the Daily Telegraph & Financial Times, drinks too much damn chardonnay. Spends life majorly stressed, organising husband, kids, businesses, models etc Life is one big organisational nightmare. At 40 I am supposed to either get religion in a major way, or have an affair with a toy-boy (either choice presumably thus encouraging said husband to run off with younger model).
Will we remain stereotypes forever ? Will our lives continue to be as corny and predictable as GWC’s shooting nudes ?
Stay tuned for the next 20 years, or maybe only the next two, until my mid-life crisis hits, I go completely insane, become a crazy religious nut/ dominatrix porn star, and run off with a 22 year old model…..
Another image of Linx, this time clothed (shock, horror), in a some-what clichéd Jordan-esque pose
Rich: Age 41, degree in physics and electronics, married to a bottle blonde with 2.4 children (the young one is only two, so she only counts as a 0.4), BMW, Labrador, big home in country. Plus he is a software engineer (I’ll get lynched if I call him “computer programmer”) who had a classic mid-life crisis, bang on the dot of turning 40 (pun intended).
Yes, you guessed it, the mid-life crisis was the photography of nudes. There are a heck of a lot of computer programmers on MM who have a mid-life crisis and start photographing nudes. The poor man – even his mid-life crisis is a cliché. The only difference being, of course, that he happens to be very good at the “photographing nudes” bit. What might have originally started out as a mid-life crisis has actually turned into an all-consuming passion which will no doubt carry him through to his next life crisis, due at 60 if the statistics are to be believed.
The only stereotypical life event due in two years time is the divorce (most men divorce at 43 apparently) where he is supposed to run off with a younger model…..I kid you not. This may yet happen of course (over my dead body), as no-one can predict the future with absolute certainty.
Lin: Age 39, mid-life crisis due next year (if women have time to actually get them), degree in law, chartered accountant, married with 2.4 kids, a health-nut, drives thirsty off-roader, reads the Daily Telegraph & Financial Times, drinks too much damn chardonnay. Spends life majorly stressed, organising husband, kids, businesses, models etc Life is one big organisational nightmare. At 40 I am supposed to either get religion in a major way, or have an affair with a toy-boy (either choice presumably thus encouraging said husband to run off with younger model).
Will we remain stereotypes forever ? Will our lives continue to be as corny and predictable as GWC’s shooting nudes ?
Stay tuned for the next 20 years, or maybe only the next two, until my mid-life crisis hits, I go completely insane, become a crazy religious nut/ dominatrix porn star, and run off with a 22 year old model…..
Another image of Linx, this time clothed (shock, horror), in a some-what clichéd Jordan-esque pose
posted by Lin at 7:28 AM
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