Hair dye - am i too old?

Finally at the age of 38 have found hair dye, my daughters felt i was looking to grey for them and said that 'dad your cool but we could make you cooler' so being a complete novice at this managed to get cajoled into going shopping for mens hair dye, oh my god i never knew there was so many and such a science to it, we spent the next 2 hours around shops looking for the right colour, now anybody who knows me knows that i have a very short attention span and get bored very quickly - all my wives and girlfriends have told me this, probably why ive had so many!!

so 2 hrs shopping doesnt sit right with me so after much debating i went with a dark brown just for men and was quite happy i had chosen the right one. so that night we had a ' lets makeover dad night' - i think there could be a market for this - a bit like ann summers or avon, so i had a pedicure manicure, plucked, moisturised and massaged and the piste t resistance - my hair dyed!!

For all men who have never done this - it is a pleasant experience, i had a beautiful head massage followed by the treatment which i was feeling quite relaxed about, 5 mins later - the reveal

shit!! i think i chose the wrong colour, i had been growing my hair for 6 months and i now had hair as black as elvis and the style to match, my kids said i look like robbie rotten from the childrens show 'lazytown'. great!! so being diplomatic like i showered and washed it 7 times that night and then had it cropped back again and still looks black.

So come monday morning and work and whoever has had a bad hair cut or just an embarrasing look you know how i felt on monday when i had to venture out into the big bad world with my big bad hair- the first few people gave me the double look but were too scared to say anything, then the inevitable ,when i walked into my office when one of my male cockney salt of the earth employees said, 'what the fuck have your done to your hair?' and i answered like a girl ' oh do you like it' and he said ' your not havin a mid life crisis, are you' to which i answered 'yes, your wife did it for me after she gave me a blowjob' to which the male bonding and hierachy was restored and that then broke the ice, it has been 3 days now and i still get clients looking at me weirdly wondering whats different but i have got used to and might go blond next time, but am i too old, at what point do i have to behave and settle for grey? am i going through a mid life crisis and how do you know the signs?