Did 3 of them already in the past two years, and was considering signing up for Pickleball.
You forgot about bouldering / rock climbing
Just as I thought I weren’t a stereotype… oh well…
Add gardening, birdwatching, golf, volunteering?
You must be thinking of a retirement-crisis
[email protected] is a community on Lemmy! we have birb
Cycling, an instrument, home brewing, a golden retriver…
Home brewing started in my mid 20s for cheap mead. Now the only difference is slightly nicer gear like glass demijohns instead of cola bottles and added variety. Started infusing spirits with things too.
oh weird, same. Though switch golf with mushroom foraging
What do I do if mine’s not on here? What kind of mid-life-crisis is this?
Welcome friend.
We all mid-life down here.You’re perfect, yes it’s true!
But without me-e, you’re only youI picked drinking and having a band. Except that’s also what I did from age 16 to 40. Maybe I’ve always been in crisis.
Where is the one for dating someone 15-20 years younger than you?
That’s the post divorce crisis
That’s a sub class, if you pick running then you’ll date a younger runner. If you pick Japan then you’ll date a young Japanese person etc.
Fucking legends
none, just neutrally observing my fastly declining physical recovery rates and wondering if it will be in the negatives 20 years later
Pretty much. I’ve got frozen shoulders going on, a sore neck for about a year, and I have to head straight to the bathroom when I get out of bed.
Lol wait til you’re peeing five times a night.
Grad school but I can’t afford it. Or running but my knees hurt so I got way too into bicycles
If your pedals have power meters, you’ve gone too far.
Jokes on you, my power meter is in the crank arm.
Yeah yeah, that’s what I meant.
So pedal power meters are not too far? 😅
A friend of mine swears on pedal power meters, easier to swap between bikes than crank arm ones. I’m too cheap for either.
I have ADHD. All of the above.
Running isn’t even a hobby, it’s my default speed.
Probably quite decent in all of them too
Fucking math.
Yes give me sudden urge to self-study linear algebra for shits and giggles. Ima go look at math memes now.
I nearly failed math my entire life wdym it will suddenly become interesting for no reason.
Hey… Wanna go down the geometry rabbithole?
https://archive.org/details/introductiontono031680mbp/page/n76/mode/1up
It has points at infinity, area as a function of angle defect, a triangle whose angles sum to 0…
Try self-teaching yourself programming If you like math, you’ll greatly enjoy being able to apply it.
I started collecting Lego again.
… and running.
What about the stereotype of buying a flashy car? Arguably that’s the one I fell into: spending far more on a car than I ever have to get something flashy and different, and purely thinking of me for what felt like the first time in my life.
I bought a roadster … which turned out to be probably the best financial decision of my life. $11K (used, obviously) and I drove it for nine years and then resold it for $5K. The thing about roadsters is that they’re thoroughly impractical, so dudes buy them and then keep them in a garage for a decade or two and then sell them for next to nothing. I have no friends so I don’t even need the one passenger seat let alone a back seat.
I came really close to doing that as a younger adult. At one point it was almost a club, so many co-workers had an older mg. Unfortunately they are no longer as plentiful or cheap.
Now I’m tempted from time to time but would never spend the time to care for it myself, which is one of the reasons to get an older vehicle.
At the moment I have the practical needs that both my kids are driving but sharing one car and can’t yet afford their own. This is the first summer that coordination will be a challenge. I took a Quick Look into long term rentals and short term leases and they’re just too expensive. I don’t want to buy them a car that will just sit and rot for 10 months they’re in college. I am so tempted to get myself another fun car. Maybe a project or classic. For the summer I’d have one more vehicle to share for the family. If there was an issue with my main car, I’d have an option. And if it’s a fun car for me I don’t mind having it the ten months of the year they’re in school
That Slate is so promising, but obviously more expensive than an older used car. I’d be tempted to get the open air configuration despite living in the northeast where it’s not practical most of the year
Z3 master race.
Can older ones be had in reasonable condition for reasonable price? I never looked into those on the assumption they cost more and are not very common.
While I liked mg’s when I was younger, more recently I was a fan of Miata’s.
I bought my second one a few years ago for $8500 with 70K miles on it, with the 2.5L and near-mint condition. You can get the older ones with the 1.8L engines even cheaper, maybe around $5K or so. I’ve driven most of the roadsters at least once and I think the Z3 is at the top of the list in terms of bang for the buck. Miatas are not bad but they cost around the same (or more) and they don’t really have the power and handling of the Z3, although they’re generally cheaper to maintain (especially in terms of tires - the back wheels of a Z3 have a severe toe camber so tires barely last 10K miles even with regular rotation). I think a Z3 is easy to find as long as you’re willing to buy on eBay or Autotrader (I’ve bought one on each) and fly somewhere to pick it up. If you’re only buying local it would probably be very hard to find one.
My holy grail car is an M Roadster, which looks almost identical to a Z3 but is apparently an entirely different car from the ground up.
First M3 I see on auto trader is $73k. That’s where I get off the bus
edit: Ooooohh, “Z3”. That’s very different
Yeah, M Roadster != M3 lol. The cheapest M Roadster I can find on Autotrader is $16K. Looks really nice, too. God damn it.
Yes. We’ve had two. Still have one. The only major problem with them is that sometimes the unibody starts to crack above the rear end. It doesn’t happen to al of them. You can still buy them for $3k-$10k in ok to pretty good shape respectively depending on the miles and engine type. Maintenance costs are reasonable for an older car.
They are really fun little cars, even the 4 cylinder is great.
The two that don’t involve me having to do any physical exercise ofcourse
I don’t know, running for a lot of us is just having our bodies start breaking down and want to avert that.
Biking fills a similar crisis role, as long as you paid $15K for the bike. Bonus points for removing three of the six chainring screws when you’re 50 pounds overweight.
I didn’t pay $15K but I got a new one. And then the gears were two low because it was a mountain bike and I had to install a custom touring drive train. (I’m having the same problem with my current e-bike, in that I run out of gears and e- at about 20mph.)
As a elder millennial, I am slotted heavily into the running category. Everyday!
I don’t see “an increasingly difficult to ignore urge to bomb an oil pipeline” on here.
That comes under running , grad school and Japan
Oh wait. You said ignore…I had already committed and planned my escape to Japan
S Tier response
Where is the drinking and BBQing one?
