Pokémon Go, mid-life crisis and me, by Ellie Gibson

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I will be 40 next year, and I am in the midst of a mid-life crisis. How do I know this? It's not because my idea of a party is staying in with a good Merlot and my complimentary copy of Waitrose Weekend. It's not because I sometimes put Radio 6 Music on extra loud, in the hope my cool young neighbours will think I'm still a hep cat. And it's not because I have multiple sexual fantasies about being trapped in a lift with the tall one out of the Making A Murderer lawyers. Although all these things are true.
No, my friends, it's much worse than that. The other day, I bought a Pokémon Go T-shirt.
In my defence, it's not just any Pokémon Go T-shirt. It's an amusing parody of the label for Sriracha chilli sauce, featuring popular bipedal reptilian Charmander. Or as he's named here, Sriracharmander. Do you see?
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