I’m about to turn fifty in the USA. I’m planning to get some shots (pneumococcal, shingles and RSV) for which I’ll be eligible. Which things did you get when you turn fifty in your life?
A free mammogram
My first colonoscomy, I felt so grown up !
Also at 50 I became much more attractive to women for some reason. I hadn’t really changed but I look back now and see that I was perceived as being more mature and stable than before, and being a straight male with no children became a big plus.
AFAIRecall, at 50, the NHS sends out FOBT kits, or they did when I was 50, which rather put me off icing a birthday cake.
But at 60 I got free public transport within London, and free NHS prescriptions. And until this year some cash to go towards extra fuel costs in the winter.
Boy, that would’ve meant something a lot more fun 25 birthdays ago.
Just because you’re fifty doesn’t mean you need to give up e.g. oyster shooters. You’ll probably tap out sooner, but OK.
Remember, you’re only as old as you behave.
My Mom received a great deal of deference in public venues when she was in her 80s and 90s. I’m nowhere near that age, plus I’m an Old Fart of the male persuasion with a permanent scowl, so I don’t receive – or expect – any favouritism. But I still like it when cute checkout clerks call me “dear”! 
“Do you need a diaper change before your nappie?” works at both ends of the age spectrum!
You don’t “hit” 50. It sneaks around your blind side and you trip over it when you least expect it. 50 didn’t mean much for me. I built my house when I was 59. 65 was my slow down point, I think.
AARP membership. Odds are that they will spam your mailbox with offers to join.
I turned 50 last year and AARP has yet to start spamming me… maybe they don’t realize I exist?
I did get my shingles and pneumonia shots right after I turned 50. I also got a proclamation in the mail from a local politician. That was both strange and hilarious.
Sometimes their address list isn’t perfect. I was surprised that I wasn’t getting anything from them when I turned 50, until my parents told me, “oh, yes, you are, they’re just sending it to our address.”
Yeah, AARP starts recruiting 'em “young”.
Also look forward to the privilege of rubber chicken dinners meant to sell you hearing aids and retirement planning counselors.
Don’t forget funeral/cremation planning. Or was that 65?
I’d gotten a global pandemic for my fiftieth birthday. I turned fifty and the next weekend, everything shut down.
It’s never too soon for cremation planning.
I received a job offer from a company in Alaska. I was in Uganda at the time. Other than that, nothing of note that I can remember.
Full invisibility!
Remember, the older you get, the better you were.
Senior poker tournaments require participants be 50+.
You gotta get the fire going so it’s ready when needed.