Your midlife crisis...past, present, future...post it here...can be “watch” or “non-watch” related.

Mad Dog · May 4, 2018

I think I’m having a [skateboarding] midlife crisis as I’m currently in my 55th year of existing on this planet. 😲

I just dropped some coin at the Vans store in the mall...Vans shorts [pictured below], Vans belt [wearing below but not visible], Vans socks [pictured below] and Vans shoes [pictured below]. I sprinted home from the mall and changed into my new Vans stuff so I could skate [in proper uniform] my vintage G&S deck with Gull Wing trucks and OJ wheels that I purchased new circa 1980. I still don’t have a Vans shirt but I believe it’s appropriate to wear a Metallica t-shirt [pictured below] since members of Metallica are known skaters. Anyway...I’m thinking about purchasing a new G&S Fibreflex Pintail longboard. Always wanted a longboard...might as well stick with G&S.

So...what’s your past, present, future midlife crisis?

NOTE: Phlieger Phriday with a Raine Inc. protective band! 😁

SpeedyPhill · May 4, 2018

Passed midlife 20 years ago 😉

ulackfocus · May 4, 2018

Just about to turn 52 and remember the skateboard craze too. I had made my own oak board, and outfitted it with ACS trucks and Bones wheels. Actually, I had 2 sets of Bones - one for the skatepark, and one for the street.

Didn't go for the Vans back then, but the checkerboard designs were all the rage.

staristheanswer · May 4, 2018

With these pictures you literally confirm your nickname @Mad Dog .
You look great for your age.
Keep going 👍

redpcar · May 4, 2018

Remember to tuck and roll.
I'm also about the same age. My skateboard is in the attic. Vintage Gullwing trucks still in place. My youngest son just bought one of those crazy electric long boards that will do 25+mph. Already broke his wrist. He offered me to take it for a spin. I said "pass".

redpcar · May 4, 2018

btw, isn't it still snowing in Ohio?

Mad Dog · May 4, 2018

redpcar
btw, isn't it still snowing in Ohio?

Not today...maybe tomorrow. 😵‍💫

kidkimura · May 4, 2018

Mad Dog
I think I’m having a [skateboarding] midlife crisis as I’m currently in my 55th year of existing on this planet. 😲

I just dropped some coin at the Vans store in the mall...Vans shorts [pictured below], Vans belt [wearing below but not visible], Vans socks [pictured below] and Vans shoes [pictured below]. I sprinted home from the mall and changed into my new Vans stuff so I could skate [in proper uniform] my vintage G&S deck with Gull Wing trucks and OJ wheels that I purchased new circa 1980. I still don’t have a Vans shirt but I believe it appropriate to wear a Metallica t-shirt [pictured below] since members of Metallica are known skateboarders. Anyway...I’m thinking about purchasing a new G&S Fibreflex Pintail longboard. Always wanted a longboard...might as well stick with G&S.

So...what’s your past, present, future midlife crisis?

NOTE: Phlieger Phriday with a Raine Inc. protective band! 😁

Honestly, I have a new idol. Very very cool @Mad Dog. My vans say hello (although I'm only 36). And of course a watch shot for posterity.

airansun · May 4, 2018

Why so mad, @Mad Dog ?

I’ve been wanting to ask you that for some time. I want to know why you frequently look so mad.

To me anyway, life is just one crisis after another. Maybe you get a gap, maybe you don’t. Sometimes they’re on top of each other. I never really noticed a specific ‘mid-life crisis’.

Mtek · May 4, 2018

45 yrs old here, still have my Santa Cruz Rob Roskopp from the 80s in the attic.

I went through a Ducati sport bike phase a few yrs ago, but got out of that when a minivan ran me off the road.

khanmu · May 4, 2018

I married my mid life crisis. Don’t think she’d be too pleased to be posted here...

Mad Dog · May 4, 2018

airansun
Why so mad, @Mad Dog ?

I’ve been wanting to ask you that for some time. I want to know why you frequently look so mad...

I don’t know.

How’s this? 😁

Lowflight · May 4, 2018

Faz · May 4, 2018

That means I would live to 112!
I'm still hoping these two essential midlife accessories could come my way..

eugeneandresson · May 4, 2018

1 word : Speedmasters.

Don’t want to think about how many I will have by 52 ...

michael22 · May 4, 2018

I turn 54 later this year. My midlife crisis was early 40's.
Sold the house, sold the business, bought a yacht & took the family cruising. Spent about 4 yrs, not all on the water, before settling down.

My male peers now use me as an excuse for buying their latest toys:
Wife: "What did you waste money on that overpriced POS for? We could have had a family holiday in Europe."
Husband:" I've been dreaming of one all my life. At least I didn't quit work & sell the house."
Wife: clamps mouth shut & gives hubby no more BS.

Mad Dog · May 4, 2018

khanmu
I married my mid life crisis. Don’t think she’d be too pleased to be posted here...

Oh...gee whiz...pics or it didn’t happen. 😁

smitty190373 · May 4, 2018

I'm 45 and still ride a BMX now and again.

Rumar89 · May 4, 2018

michael22
I turn 54 later this year. My midlife crisis was early 40's.
Sold the house, sold the business, bought a yacht & took the family cruising. Spent about 4 yrs, not all on the water, before settling down.

My male peers now use me as an excuse for buying their latest toys:
Wife: "What did you waste money on that overpriced POS for? We could have had a family holiday in Europe."
Husband:" I've been dreaming of one all my life. At least I didn't quit work & sell the house."
Wife: clamps mouth shut & gives hubby no more BS.

That’s my kind of midlife crisis. I’m 28, and have already begun plotting. Buy a Toyota SUV, strap a tent to the top, and start driving south.

Foo2rama · May 4, 2018

6’6 hamboard. Hamboards.com my friends company

Not really a midlife crisis though.