Wouldn’t matter if i noticed appropriate age or not, does no good if you aren’t noticed back. lol
Now cars on the other hand…
Old enough to know better, and old enough to stop caring. How YOU doin? 
I gave up. When my Roadmonster dies I only NEED a '94 or better Caddy, Buick, or Impala. All I ask for is that LT1. I live 6.7 miles from work. Mileage be damned!
Or a Mercury Marauder. I’m open-minded.
FTR, my old LTD, anemic 302 and all, woulda survived into its THIRD season at Sycamore Speedway, had Dave not let a rookie drive it in the Figure Eight. A REAL, and successful, race car! How many BMW, etc, owners can say that? Their cars will be wafted to a junkyard by their third owners, not into a dirt-track Valhalla like mine. 
Okey-dokey
Good for you, and her as well. Sounds like you guys are both cool with the fact that that’s gonna end, someday. And to boot, she’s going to know what it’s like to not have to deal with silly young guys and all their crap, which will set her expectations high when it’s time to move on.
Plus: There are cars in the world, and some people have really cool ones. Some people don’t, but they talk about really cool ones. And, cars are cool.
Bimmers!!
Old Buicks! On my way to/from school I would cut through a Buick dealer and drool over everything from the first GS350 to the Stage 2 GS455. I got warped by big engines.
Just the other day I caught a Porsche 928 checking me out.
I’m 47, and I could never date anyone that young. Even if she were wise beyond her years. And one of the reasons I couldn’t date someone so young, is because it would be BEYOND embarrassing.
I can get “drama free” from women my own age. And the conversation would much better too.
20 is way too young for someone close to the 1/2 century mark. But, I guess there are always exceptions to any rule. I swear to god I have never met a 20yr.old that made any sense to me. It is all about what your interested in I guess!
And she’d get your references! You wouldn’t have to explain every.single.joke or snarky comment. That’s pure relaxation. 
Woman at church is a pal–a married pal–who looks like Phoebe from Friends. A year younger than I, but looks 15 years younger. The other day I was thinking, “If I had known her in high school…I’d’ve probably thought, ‘Yeah, she’s hot now, but how will she look when she’s 62?’” I woulda been wrong, but she’s still married. Oh, well. There’s always Trivia Night.
Maybe this will happen to me whenever my marriage finally ends. There are some other factors, though. My wife and I both look 10-12 years younger than we are. So, I find myself noticing women from low 20s to same age as my wife, but they are probably in their early 30s and not 45. Considering I’m 40 but look 28 I think that is age appropriate. Most 45 year-old women look like they could be my mom but I don’t look like I could be a the dad of of most 20somethings. Also, I expect to have a primal urge to mate for quite some time, which results in an attraction to women in typical child bearing years.
I look 10-12 years younger than I am ( on a good day). Nobody can believe how old my children are. My problem is expecting the young people I know to understand me and my references. The lil’wrekker is 18 and she gets me, of course she has an old soul. Sexually, slow and easy is fine with me. I ain’t in no hurry. Playing is much more fun than it used to be. So guys you don’t have to be a 20something hunk to have a good time. Remember, everybody ages, and expectations should follow suit.
To those of you who notice women over 40–where the hell are you guys? Give us single over-40 women some idea of how to meet you. I’ve been trying for years now, with no success.
And yet, Beck, you continue to be married. I have a bud like that. 
I hope I never lose my primal urges. I enjoy looking at the young’uns. Just yesterday I was chatting with a 21yo lady, looking like a brick house, and I was admiring her attributes.
She’s mighty mighty, just letting it all hang out. The lady’s stacked, and that’s a fact, ain’t holding nothing back.
And then there are the cars!
Well I’ve been married and out of circulation for 15+ years. I imagine the online scene is ugly, right? Too much static there?
Can you meet guys at your work place? That’s where I met my wife. Meeting a coworker has its risks but it let me know what her work ethic is, and how she deals with stress and frustration and difficult situations.
Tell us here, FFS! We, those jerks, tend to be smartish jerks. And you’ve been here forever, but I had no idea you were a hetero woman. Usually the topic doesn’t come up, so you need to make it come up. And at our age, make it come up a couple ways.
Which is why “fishing off the company pier” can be good. You both can see how you handle your worst.