When you're too old for the club...

So I was reflecting back to having to rescue a friend last weekend from a possible DUI when he called me from the club drunk enough to flirt with the waitress with the glass eye and the peg leg and think it was worth it...

And it it hit me. I'm not really a club person, never really was. I mean, I love a pub like no other. Or a good brewery. But a club? Not my style.

Anyway, I feel some pity for my friend... he's older than I am and was hanging around these 20-something year olds and they were all looking at him like he was all too old to be there.

Sadly, I agree.

It's not like that he's out there with his chest hair and gold chains with a small medallion that says "Gonna Git U Sucka" or "Jive Turkey".

I just don't want to ever be that "old guy at the club"...

bah.

I feel the same way. Although, eventually I will be "the creepy old dude hanging around the arcade and video game store". But I will accept that, even before it happens.

Just don't wear a trench coat and constantly lick your lips...

I cannot relate

already happened to you hasn't it gerbs? You're here with a load of youngesters.

this is a graphical representation of you

http://www.truthaboutduke.com/photo_realstu_12.jpg

At least at the FK you can pretend there's a chance of the teens hanging around for the wisdom.

At a club you're in their territory, fair and square. No excuses, you're there to oggle young flesh and enjoy the college drink specials that a younger liver would have no problem breaking down - but a more hardened version (a la gerbs' friend) can't quite manage.

I guess if you insist on clubbing past your mid 30s your best option is to VIP. Part of the general crowd spells l-o-s-e-r.

yeah. i've never really been a big club person. did go through a couple of fairly sporadic clubbing phases (one when i was 16-18) then again when i discovered the delights of brighton's clubbing scene 4 or 5 years ago. now the idea of hanging out in a club really does not appeal.

pubs/bars, occasionally.
clubs, no thanks.

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Originally Posted by RazoRmedia

already happened to you hasn't it gerbs? You're here with a load of youngesters.

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I ain't trawling for booty here, Mr. Refresh.

yeah yeah. weren't you once locked up for this ?

So I didn't remember the legal age in that country. Blame me for not having that as one of the things customs tells you upon entry. Sheesh.

I'm so glad i'm out of that scene.

In my 20's I used to work with the club crowd. 20 somethings girls would earn $100 plus a nite and lived with parents. They'd rarely have to pay for drinks and there bar tab was the only expense they had. I knew so many young guys who would blow the rent money buying a gal drinks only to end up high and dry.

That's when I found out about my addictive personality. and had the good sense to stop drinking, and stop trying to chase women who were looking for a sugar daddy that I could never be.

I was watching an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air the other day and Jeffery went to the club with a 20-something year old nanny.

He knew how to cut a rug!

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He knew how to cut a rug!

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pfft. slang dinosaur.

Cut a rug?

What is that, taking a pair of scissors to a toupee?

the same thing is happening with malls, i cant go on weekend nights anymore because the entire mall is crawling with 14 year old hoochie mammas, and emo kids.

As a lifelong resident of the State of New Jersey, having known many guidos and douchebags, I feel it is my duty to re-assure all of you who have avoided clubs (and therefore, the clap) for most of your lives.

If you'd like to be "scared straight", find the MTV "True Stories" episode about the guy who goes clubbing at the Jersey Shore in the summer.

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Originally Posted by PAlexC

As a lifelong resident of the State of New Jersey, having known many guidos and douchebags, I feel it is my duty to re-assure all of you who have avoided clubs (and therefore, the clap) for most of your lives.

If you'd like to be "scared straight", find the MTV "True Stories" episode about the guy who goes clubbing at the Jersey Shore in the summer.

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even before i read this post, i thought about that true life episode. If i was 50pds heavier in muscle, i'd go find that guy and beat the living hell out of him until the stink of jersey and his horrible accent were gone. It's guys like him (and his whole posse) that give jersey a horrible name. Welll....that and everythign else about jersey sucks monkey nuts.

You mean this and this ? :D

I think most people meet someone, settle down, start a family, and stop going out to clubs long before they reach age where they don't fit in any more.

For those that don't, you weren't good enough to find your mate at the clubs when you were in your prime, what makes you think its gonna happen at now, give up, and stop embarrassing yourself in front of the young people.

And for the people that have found their mate and started a family, but still go out to the clubs, WTF is wrong with you! Get home to your family!

Some times I even wonder if I'm too old to go clubbing... and I'm only 28!

Chuck E. Cheeses is not a club ;)

Are you kidding me!? That place is BUMP'N! I drop a baker's dozen in brass tokens on the Grand Prize Game and Skeeball to get some strobe light action going and I'm all over that chick with the beak up on stage! SHA-DAMN!

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Originally Posted by GameDudeX

Some times I even wonder if I'm too old to go clubbing... and I'm only 28!

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feel the same way. jus hit 29 last week. the only way to be over mid 30's in the club is if you own it or you're in hollyweird, lol.

I was in the vegas club scene for about a year when I was 18-19. My friends and I were mainly there for the narcotics. I got tired of waking up drunk and almost OD'd once so that was the end of that, and those friends.

I love the fact that the money those little boys drop on drinks pays my bills.
I have to put up the pictures every week from our venues. You can just see everyone's eyes saying, "I can't wait to put this on my myspace!"
These are the most shallow and ignorant people I've ever scene. Our hosts clear 100k and have nothing to show for it.
Oh and V.I.P. still means loser in vegas. It's thrown around so much for promotions here that it's lost all meaning.

Raises kind of a personal issue though. Where am I gonna meet my wife? It sure as hell ain't the clubs, we don't have a healthy casual bar scene, even if dating at work wasn't tabu, the girls I work with are all married or engaged. And I'm not gonna take a class or join some club with an ulterior motive. Maybe your friend just ran out of ideas.

Me and the guys once chatted with a group of girls at the club. Then one of them asked me "so what do you do, uncle?"

That's when i realized...

When you are hanging around with the youngsters in a club and you find that you no longer understand their lingo/jokes/music - time to stop going.

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Originally Posted by lefteyewilly

Chuck E. Cheeses is not a club ;)

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Funny you mention that. A man was on the news last night for going into a Chuck E. Cheese and exposing himself and when questioned on why he did it. He blamed the voices in his head.

HAHA! lefteyewilly, you still dealing with those outdated brain implants or have you moved to telepathy yet? ;)

:confused:

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Originally Posted by WannaBe_80z

Funny you mention that. A man was on the news last night for going into a Chuck E. Cheese and exposing himself and when questioned on why he did it. He blamed the voices in his head.

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wow. what kind of voice says go dry hump an anima-tronic rat?

I stopped clubbing around when I got to around 24ish (mid 90's) coz it got boring.

But then again I was about when acid house kicked off and was actively part of Essex sun dance move and followed that all the way through to the techno/jungle etc rave scenes with Circus Noir and Exodus to the point it got over commercialised and stuffed into super clubs in the early 90's.

Every nightclub I been to since I just get bored at the sterile controlled environment which kills the excitement of the night.

For a good few years my mates and I were religiously hitting clubs - not cheesy meet market clubs but the darkside hardcore/jungle clubs. Never thought I would be too old, but I really have no chance of going out these days, because there is nothing fun about watching a bunch of youngsters jumping around full of energy while you sip your over priced beer thinking, "it was better in my day..." and they're thinking, "what is that old fool doing in here?!"

Give me a pub any day!

I get a headache just hearing the word 'club'. "Can I be in your club? Let's club!"

Can we get a man-law making clubbing a criminal offense?

"Go 'clubbing' get clubbed!"

MAN LAW!

Man Law!

MAN LAW!
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/9617/manlawfq1.jpg

well done. well done.

Bleh, so I worked at a pub / club thing with bands playing for extra income a while ago...
My brother in law comes to check up on me (via demand of my sister) the one night, to make sure that its "safe", so he's milling around, watching the band, looking at people and he comes up to me "listen, the people here are dodge"... I finish work and he buys me a drink before we head home, so we go stand near the stage to watch the band.
This scary old hag in a tight tank top practically shoves me aside and "seductively" drops her bag by my bro's feet. "Watch this for me will you" Smiles at him then swivvels off to the dance floor where she tries to look all exotic and stuff...
Needless to say we exchange a look, down our beers and leave.
Women didnt even see us go. Dont know what happened to her bag, dont care.
Moral of the story:
Old men at clubs = Scary.
Old women at clubs = Nightmarish.

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"it was better in my day..." and they're thinking, "what is that old fool doing in here?!"

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- Yes - I agree - it happens all the time...

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Old men at clubs = Scary.
Old women at clubs = Nightmarish.

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he he he - Good observation Natsia.

I'm 22 and can't stand clubbing. Never was my scene and never will be.

I prefer a good pub.