While plenty of clubs has its fair share of old-timers raving up a storm each and every week, always up for a yarn about the cocaine-soaked glory days of the ’80s, most of us will agree that there is probably a time when we’ll hang up the phat pants (that’s what the kids wear, right?) and decide that we’re officially “too old” for clubbing.
But when is that age, exactly? While it probably varies for most people, based on whether you have a job to get up for on Monday or a family to take care of, a new study has singled out certain ages as the generally-accepted cutoff point for when you should trade the club in for a cheese and wine night.
As Mixmag reports, a new poll in the U.K. has found that, on average, people feel that 37 is the age when people are probably a bit too old to be clubbing, while 31 is the age when most people start to prefer a night in rather than a 4am trek home from their noise-hole of choice.
It’s generally accepted wisdom that hangovers (and comedowns) become a bit tougher when you hit your thirties, and the reasons given for ditching the clubs also included simple hurdles like having to dress up nicely enough to be let in, or trying to find a babysitter who’ll stick it out until the next morning.
Still, nobody told the 55-year-old Axl Rose or the 77-year-old Tom Jones, who were kicked out of their all-night rager in London recently following noise complaints, and they should set the standard for the rest of us.
If you’re still clubbing into your thirties and beyond, and enjoying it as much as you did when you were younger, the number on the back of your driver’s licence doesn’t mean a thing – as long as you’re not this guy.
