Various sorts of humiliation1 are available to the middle-agedman. You can dance in public. You can try to buy fashionabletrousers in a department store, only to be told with a pitiless2glance that \"they aren't made in your size, sir\". Your dentures can popout in the canteen when you're sitting opposite that attractive girl frommarketing? You can be overtaken4 by an old granny walking homewith her shopping while you attempt to cycle uphill.