Comments on: I guess I thought I’d be allowed to be cool until I had teenagers

By: Many fitting rooms later

Many fitting rooms later — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:42:54 +0000

[...] came back from visiting my sister with a new pair of jeans. And she also picked herself up a wedding dress. That right there is some successful shopping, [...]

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:40:11 +0000

I’ve been working with teenagers almost since I was one (an un-cool one), and I still have one barely-teen sister, so I don’t know I ever had a fair shot at being cool. When my youngest sisters were 10 and 12, I told them that when they became teenagers they’d be glad to have a cool big sister like me.
So not true.

By: Julie @ The Mom Slant

Julie @ The Mom Slant — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:44:03 +0000

My time on the Breck slopes hammered home how uncool I am too. I wore the CB jacket I bought in college, adorned with all the pins from places I’ve skiied. One of the lift operators was kind enough to comment, “Huh, I remember how popular those were back in the 80′s.”

By: Jennifer (ponderosa)

Jennifer (ponderosa) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:18:28 +0000

I love that outdoor clothing is now made to fit a woman, and flatteringly so — I could do all my shopping out of the Athleta catalog — but it is dismaying that the concept of “looking cool” has been carried into the woods!

By: roo

roo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:55:07 +0000

How am I uncool? Let me count the ways:
1. no facebook page
2. no sense at all of what the kids are listening to these days
3. i have a pixie haircut
4. i don’t know how/am incapable of twittering
5. my winter coat is too long– cool kids seem to be wearing short ones with a belt

I could go on, but it’s too depressing.

By: Binkytowne

Binkytowne — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:15:43 +0000

Ice picks and what? I’ve never heard of an ‘avy beacon’ so I guess I’m out right now.

I have one pair of cool jeans, ie, from AnnTaylorLoft. They are not skinny leg jeans because I can not pull those off to save my life. They are , however, dark denim which makes them cool, I guess, but they are low rise so my stomach hangs over the top and negates the cool factor so it’s pretty much a wash.

I am not cool because I have an iPhone, but it does allow me to pretend to be cool. Sort of a non-cool smokescreen.

By: magpie

magpie — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:06:36 +0000

i’m totally uncool.

By: Cold Spaghetti

Cold Spaghetti — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:46:14 +0000

You know, I’ve been struggling with my lack of cool, too.

But then I see that it’s the 80s that are coming back as cool. And the ones who are really investing in that version of cool are the ones who are too young to remember it the first time around. This makes me feel a bit better.

That said, I’d really like to upgrade my old flip-phone with the ancient texting.

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:53:17 +0000

My phone is also a flip (I feel like I am asking Scotty to “beam me up” every time I use it). Can’t wait to hear your opinion of the smart phone as I am thinking of getting an iphone or something similar. The thought of having to choose among thousands of apps has me stressed already.
I feel uncool every time I go to the gym wearing my baggy sweats and old nikes. Everyone seems to have these amazing cool stretchy workout clothes. I keep saying I will reward myself with some of these when I loose 10 lbs. So far it hasn’t happened!

By: Lady M

Lady M — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:27:15 +0000

No tattoos and I’m unwilling to wear uncomfortable shoes. I guess that pretty much rules out coolness for me.