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Where's my hoverboard?

January 04 2015

Little has turned out in 2015 as I imagined it would way back in 1989. My majestic high school mullet is long gone, and so are the dreams of flying cars and self drying clothes. Here I am though communicating with a lovely bunch of perverts from half way across the world, using my personal communicator without the assistance of any wires. Awesome. Actually I'm very happy with where I am and where I've been, but it really does bear little resemblance to where I thought I would be as a teenager. I expected to get married (once, not twice and counting), put no thought into having kids (4 turned up anyway), and expected to settle into a long term job in a lab or computer room (because computers were kept in special rooms). Turns out I've only had a salaried job for about 3 of the nearly 20yrs in the adult workforce. While there was never a time from about 15yrs old I wasn't keen on sex, I had no idea one could keep exploring for decades. I had no idea there was life after 40, my parents certainly didn't have one. Now I can't believe I'm over 40, and enjoying a social life that's more active than anything outside of the uni years. So for the rest of the oldies out there - how have your expectations fared? For the young-uns - what do you expect? And does anyone know where I can find that hoverboard?

Comments

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    I'm with you, Simon. Never thought there was life after 40 but for me, my sex life started at 40. After over a decade in a 'conventional' marriage and 3 kids, I have found the lifestyle I've always wanted and the man of my dreams. I've never been happier and things can only get better, right? 😃 - Posted from rhpmobile

  • Twisted_Mister

    Twisted_Mister

    10 years ago

    Finished school in 1987. Moved to Melbourne to play grade cricket 1988. Sheffield Shield debut in 1990. Test debut, Boxing Day 1994. Millions in endorsements. Retire in 2009 after making 10,000 Test runs. Now travelling the world as a highly paid commentator. And then.... Life happened. Still, I'm in a much better boat than a whole pile of people I know. BTW, I still have a flanno shirt from 1984. Don't wear it any more, but you can read the paper through it! - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Very disappointed

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Long weekends on Mars and holidays to the moons of Jupiter. Very disappointing.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    I was disappointed at the turn of the millennium that I didn't have a robot to clean the bloody house! I am not really sure what I was expecting. I did end up with 3 kids that I was never having, my ex husband was a one night stand that lasted for 15yrs and here I am now still not sure what I am expecting or even what I want. I was always a horny bitch from the time I lost my virginity in a half built house at the top of my street with a boy I just met and it seems it is deja vu for my sex life, still fucking randoms I just met just like when I was a teenager.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    I'm still looking for my magic broomstick! - Posted from rhpmobile

  • Missb4u

    Missb4u

    10 years ago

    for the instant dresser machine that I just walk into and come out fully dressed hair and makeup done and the instant meal machine where you just press the button and get a delicious meal ready to eat. I wouldn't change anything in my life till now as it all made me what I am today. Sure I could probably have done without some of the abuse and time wasted on a useless marriage but no point living in the past.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Like good wine - I had a blast in my 40's after my wife and I finally spoke about opening our relationship... but that was mostly experimental.. we had good family life too, with kids now young adults - and we have separated too so my 50's might mean not just a sexual adventure but a new partner in crime too...

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Published on YouTube the 17th November 2014: . Tony Hawk Rides World's First Real Hoverboard. How's that for timing! Ever in awe, Peachy

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Published on YouTube 7th November 2014: . Flying Car - AeroMobil 3.0 demonstration. Can't find anything on the magic broomstick Wiccan. Peachy

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    While I don't have a literal white picket fence lol, I do have a decent amount of the lifestyle that went with it, in my imagination, in grade 2? I think it was. . All I ever wanted was a place to belong in the world, and I believed I could have it. . Now, I have more than I ever imagined could be possible.

  • AnnieWhichway

    AnnieWhichway

    10 years ago

    As a teenager in the 70's, I thought being older, as I am now, would bring stability and a settled life getting ready for retirement. But here I am, fluctuating between being a man and a woman at any whimsical moment, pursuing adrenaline sports as though my body is able to take the pounding, generally assaulting my liver as I was back in the 70's and wanking as much as I was at school. The only thing that has changed is the view in the mirror. And perhaps a few less brain cells. Suppose we have the grand mobile phone like devices they had in star trek.Waiting for the beam up device to come to fruition. But happy to roll on till then

  • nattyocean

    nattyocean

    10 years ago

    So I'm at a cross roads as a edge towards forty * getting divorced, no children * moving to the big smoke by myself once again (like I did nearly 20 yes ago) * going back to uni * have finally found my passion and have the confidence and lack of need to apologise for it and am going for it * re exploring my sexual side which oh my I have missed ☺️ and in ways exactly where I thought I might be and in others could not have ever imagined the roads I would travel to be here. There are millisecond moments of regret that I keep in check as in most (amongst the current hard stuff I'm going through) I am so happy with where I am, but more importantly headed! Never been a planner but rather a floater and happy to see how things pan out, giving every opportunity a fair good going at too. And I forgot that, followed a path that I thought was what I should be doing and holy crap... Blurgh so bored, unfulfilled and basically not a person I liked. So whilst no hover board, I'm relishing the future and what's to come and I'm keen to see how technology will redefine again and again our relationships with those nearest and dearest or yet to be known😄 - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    That's ok, Peachy. You made me smile just knowing you searched - Posted from rhpmobile

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Its a generational thing I want my Jet Pack !!!!! LC

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    In 1989 I was 16. I remember going to see Who framed Roger Rabbit in the cinema for my birthday. I expected to become a registered nurse and travel to Australia (both because of the Flying Doctors tv-series), but settle in my home country, get married and have kids, probably in my early twenties. I ended up not getting married or having children, backpacking through Australia at 25, and moving here permanently at age 30. As for sex, I knew it was something I liked very much back then, though I didn't lose my virginity until a few years later. All in all, I think I did better than I ever thought I would.

  • RHP

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    10 years ago

    I was just beginning to get involved with Tibetan Buddhism..Two years later I was managing a Tibetan Budfhist Health and a healing centre in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California..I always thought that I would have a husband and children...it just didnt work out quite the way I thought it would..But I have had an interesting life,never a planner,just an opportunist xx Freya

  • Lovinit28andKC72

    Lovinit28andKC72

    10 years ago

    Well actually I did it 5 times, geez you think I would have worked it out after the first one (only joking) It's all I ever wanted to be, a mother, my children are my one true love and passion and they have made me a better person..... I once thought 30 was old, how wrong was I, because I'm 46 and I'm still not old....😜I actually like me, all of me, my life is a gift and I'm fucking lovinit......💋 You know I wouldn't change a thing either, it is what it is, I've done what I've done and I have no regrets..... All I know is now I'm happy, living my life exactly how I want to, I'm having more fun than I thought possible, I'm still learning, still growing, still experiencing, still exploring and I'm not about to change any of it.... Happily married/very happily divorced, well that didn't go how I had planned it.

  • Dryphuz

    Dryphuz

    10 years ago

    There are flying cars, but they're super expensive, not highly reliable or safe, and you still need to be a pilot to fly one. Dishes do dry themselves, you're just not leaving them alone long enough. A robot to clean the house... Well we haven't got quite that far, but we do have ones that can vacuum. I'm only in my early thirties, but i must say the greater world has come further than i expected in my teens. I did think space exploration would have been further along by now. It seems like little has really been achieved, but it does seem like things are ramping up again. In my personal life i think I'm where i expected. I'm almost chronically single, never been married and no kids. Thats a par game as far as my 15-16 year old self is concerned. Professionally i'm well behind where i thought i'd be. I do have my degree, but it was a decade late. I should have a career, a house and a decent near new car. Instead i'm unemployed, move back and forth between my parents and share houses, and the only reason i have a ride is because i inherited my sisters already second hand mid nineties daewoo. Not exactly what i had in mind, but then again who would have thought I'd be side swiped by an anxiety problem. I dealt better as a kid, so i thought i always would. Sexually, i never imagined i'd explore any form of kink, and i had no aspirations to do so. I have to thank my last girlfriend for opening me up to those possibilities. I've done a couple of things i never thought i would. So i'm ahead on some expectations, well behind on others, and right where i expected to be with the rest. However in 10 years i expect to be right where i am now, but about 50% of cars will be electric or hydrogen driven and we'll finally be making use of 8k televisions because as usual the porn industry will have started producing content for it. No matter where you wind up, I hope it will still be a good story.

  • madotara69

    madotara69

    10 years ago

    Simon, I'm still nutting out the flux capacitor for our space ship out in the shed. Still got the chrome framed Mongoose BMX pushy. Had to swap my Bonza scatey with the whipper snipper motor for flux parts. Mado Mado Tara xx

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'LoveCurvie' Its a generational thing I want my Jet Pack !!!!! A pretty cool Scottish band called "We were promised Jetpacks".

  • Missb4u

    Missb4u

    10 years ago

    the year I finished high school. Was a mighty fine year. I turned 17 on the last day of school. Ahhh good times!

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Quoting 'LoveCurvie' Its a generational thing I want my Jet Pack !!!!! LC trying to get them out on the market nest year and looking for investors.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Those hoverboards, flying cars and jetpacks are all serious technology. I'm waiting for the kids toy versions that any clown can ride drive or fly. In 25yrs no one has cracked that flux capacitor Mado, maybe try for a hovering whipper snipper instead.

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    ...with my bride and one crate of stuff. There's a lot of water under the bridge, the kids arrived in the 90's...one will probably leave home this year.My wife is still with me and I owe her a lot.As Robert G Barrett said the fun don't done yet.

  • madotara69

    madotara69

    10 years ago

    If I could only get it to run on flux, hmmmmmm

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    Truth is stranger than fiction (Mark Twain)

  • RHP

    RHP User

    10 years ago

    The front page of the Melbourne age proclaiming Melbourne as a nuclear target with the corresponding mushroom cloud picture. Yes the cold war, America and the Soviet Union proclaiming MAD the aptly named Mutually Assured Destruction.As a consequence I have lived my life in the moment with little regard for any future, and now I have one, shit now what happens ? Where's my Armageddon ?Two awesome children that came late, no regrets, just no super !