Seems as though today you can get away with a lot stuff you couldn't when in your 20s-30s but there is also a downside or three. For example...
One evening when at the local gin mill an attractive young lady came walking by me. I leaned back, puffed out my chest ... "Where have you been all my life?"
She looked at me for a second or two, "Well, for the most of it I wasn't alive.