Signs of maturing

I am on a train from the north to London. There is a group of six men (late 40s early 50s) on the tables around me. They are having a train picnic, bottles of red wine, two types of chutney, four different cheeses, pork pies etc. 

 

They invited me to join in with them, I said no thank you as I need to do work emails and do not like red wine.

2022 Pheebs would have been necking disgusting wine and have offered to have w**ked one in the loo by the time we reached Watford. 

I’ve noticed this place slowly drifting into middle age

When clergs (I think) posted something about having a pain in her lower back it was hours before someone offered to spray healing cream all over the affected area (or whatever)

In the meantime there were lots of helpful tips about posture and back exercises

It’s like an ITV3 ad break on here now

This puts me of interrailing.  Summer of 1997.  We had spent the day in munich at the fest.  Got on the train to paris late at night.  My pals all passed out and I carried on drinking with some german girls who had brought train booze with them.  The key girl was, ironically as it turned out, called dyka

2022 Pheebs would have been necking disgusting wine and have offered to have w**ked one in the loo by the time we reached Watford. 

Pheebs, are you sure that the 'maturing' process had not started long before 2022? Surely the even younger Pheebs, would not have limited that offer to just one of them......