ann m

It's the headache the morning after the night before that causes a few problems, but otherwise, no, not at all.
I'd suggest getting your mid-life crisis over and done with now - you'll be too busy living it large once you hit forty.

I must say, semi-seriously though, it's the men turning forty who seem to brood on this momentous occasion more than the women these days ....

Elaine B.

well if you're talking Canadain beer, that is worse than death!

Steve_P

That comment does seem to have some validity.

I don't understand why?

Forty, fifty and sixty all came and went without angst for me.

gryphea

I turn 40 next year and am not particularly fussed - yet!!!! I was about turning 30 I remember. I think men find 30 a doddle and 40 tough.

tom17

I thought for years that it was fourty, as did my father. Then one day the subject cropped up. My father and I thought we were right (Well it's FOUR so it's FOURty, right?!) and my mother was wrong. Well we investigated it and we both learned a lesson that day.

I think it can go missed for a looong time if you make the assumption early on in life that forty is spelt how you would expect it to be spelt (fourty). I guess it's not something that comes up that often as people write '40' most of the time, so lot's of people miss it.

Although I use 'forty' now, it still looks and feels wrong. I need to think about it every time I write it.

Tom...