When's the first time you stepped back and said, "Fuck, I'm no longer cool."

[HEyHEY]

I'm sitting in this hotel room on a Friday night after going out to by some new pants sipping on red wine and avoiding doing any work on this soft little book while listening to Nana Mouskari. As little as FIVE years ago I'd be drinking a Jameson's on ice and listening to Patti Smith while writing a decent article that had some teeth.

Man, I'm no longer cool. Getting old blows.

[Roon]

1. I stopped being cool around the time I turned 35

I LOVE getting older!

[woo me with science]

2. I was cool? nt

[Heidi]

3. Oh, wow.

Maybe the first time I was teased for having red hair and freckles. Or maybe when I realized I was near-sighted. Or when my parents decided clarinet would be the perfect instrument for me to play in band.

It's really difficult to put my finger on the first time I stepped back and realized I wasn't cool. I'm okay with my dorkishness now, though, and that's cool. :hi:

[Flaxbee]

50. lol

:hug: Heidi

I'm not cool, either, and am proud of it. Why am I not cool? I'm near sighted, too. And I hate to admit it, but I can be a tad bit controlling, but at least I realize it, right? And I'm totally shy at parties. And I like being at home with my kitties and my husband.

But my nieces think I'm cool. Or, they did, before they went to college. Not sure what they think now that I'm a middle aged lady. :D

[TZ]

4. Lol

Drinking a Flying Gorilla for my 21st birthday while I was in Canada for a Shakespeare festival...I don't think I've ever really been cool frankly...:rofl:

[rug]

5. When I woke up in an alley on West 48th Street with my pants down to my shoes.

I wish I remembered what happened.

[HEyHEY]

7. Hey, now I remember you!

[joeybee12]

6. Ironically, those were the first words I ever spoke...n/t

[Aristus]

8. Never. I've never been cool in my life.

I'm too old to try to be cool now.

[hobbit709]

9. I never worried about being "cool"

I went my own way

[HEyHEY]

10. But that's what made you cool. The only place being part of the stream is cool is american highschoo

Or so movies have made me believe.

[seabeyond]

11. i stayed cool, just not hip. nt

[Kali]

12. it's an intermittent thing

I'm currently waiting for the next iteration:P

[grace0418]

13. I guess that's the good part about never being cool ever. Or super beautiful. I don't have

to worry about losing my looks or my coolness.

[Iggo]

14. When I noticed how easy this rolled off my tongue...

..."Clipper cut: One-and-a-half around the sides and four on top."

I miss my hair, man.

[unpossibles]

15. thebest part of this epiphany

is that in a Zen sort of way, once you are aware of your uncoolness, and stop worrying about it, then you become instantly cooler and have more fun with life.

[mnhtnbb]

23. How about "Fuck, I don't care if I'm not cool"

[UTUSN]

16. Bwa-HAH just the premise of the thread made me LAUGH (at myself)

And just the references to the things you are doing in the room, which I don't "get," will tell you I am not cool and you are.


P.S., and the depths of my uncool are plumbed by my even sort of liking the comic strip "Cathy," which is much maligned in another thread.

[uncommon]

17. I am pretty cool.

:shrug:

[sammytko]

18. me too and always will be!

[redwitch]

19. Chaperoned a junior high dance for school PTSA

About 15 years ago. That pretty much finished my cool days.

[mcollins]

20. Working on my Masters and driving a minivan.

A friend and I went out one night to the local college area to have a drink. There we were playing ELO, driving a minivan, in our mid-30s.

Looking around the sidewalks were traditional college students.


At that point we both realized we were not cool.

[Kali]

22. "There we were playing ELO, driving a minivan, in our mid-30s."

:rofl: :hug:

[geardaddy]

21. Drinking Jameson on ice is not cool.

:P

[abq e streeter]

24. Unremittingly from the very first moment I realized I wanted to be cool, at about 12

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[vixengrl]

32. I actually totally got that--I never was cool

and I think it was the coolest thing I could have failed at. Being a giant dork freed me from have to "Fonz" it up--I could always admit when it was wr...wrr....wrong, and I could laugh it off often enough when I was a klutz. Nerdiness let me dress for me and listen to whatever music I liked and let me hang with interesting people sometimes in the weird high school environment that tries to make rules about those things.

The "Revenge of the Nerds" movies were kind of my inspiration for accepting that I just am uncool, but its okay.

Although I probably just wrecked my uncoolness by admitting that being uncool was my version of cool. Can I fix that by being meta-ironic about how hip it was to be square?

[Z_I_Peevey]

26. When I noticed I had developed jowls,

that pretty much did it for me.

[struggle4progress]

36. When I was in my thirties, I had a big scraggly beard and shaved it off once, at which

point a lovely young coed, fifteen years or so my junior opined that I looked so much younger clean shaven. It didn't much impress me at the time, but I remembered it some years later when my beard started to grey, and I thought, Well, I'll juuust take off a few years by shaaaving -- at which point I discovered that I had grown a double chin :eyes:

[old mark]

27. I just turned 63, and I will be fucking cool till the day after I'm dead.

Go get laid or something...


mark

[MilesColtrane]

28. February 18th, 2003...11:23pm

[Forkboy]

29. Hasn't happened yet. Get back to me around 2 AM though, as I'm puking up my spleen.

:)

[Curmudgeoness]

30. I didn't get cool until I was 35. By 36, I realized I was no longer cool.

I had a good year.

[Old Troop]

31. I think I was about 11

[kwassa]

33. I was in the womb ....

when that realization crossed my mind in the last trimester ...

[struggle4progress]

34. I startedv to suspect it thirty years ago, when I heard myself saying "How can kids today think

that noise is music?" My state of denial deepened about a decade later, when I started hearing the tunes of my youth remixed as elevator muzak. It finally dawned on me that I had reached terminal uncoolness after about another ten years, when I started to wonder why I was hearing so many old grooves, every riff of which I had once known by heart, playing over the supermarket PA system late at night -- and realized that the old artists must be selling cheap bulk licenses

[HEyHEY]

53. Dude, I'm 31 and if you saw my Ipod you'd think I'd robbed a baby boomer.

[JTG of the PRB]

35. I'm pretty sure I was never cool.

I'm a geek. Always have been, always will be. My people aren't exactly "cool" by normal standards, though there certainly are cool geeks out there.

I'm just not one of them. :P

[NV Whino]

37. First grade?

Yeah, that was probably it. So I've had a long time to practice not giving a flying fuck.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

38. "Fuck, I'm no longer cool and I don't give a damn!"

See, it gets better ;)

[hunter]

39. I've never been cool, but I'm gonna be someday.

Other old farts will be sitting on their porches yelling "Get off my lawn!" but I won't have a lawn and the front of my house will look like a science fiction movie with all manner of people arriving and departing in all sorts of vehicles: flying boots, skateboards, scooters, tandem bicycles, antique motorcycles, and the occasional time traveler flying a fusion powered DeLorean, police box Tardis or space alien's flying saucer.

[kedrys]

40. Just after I drank a pina colada at Trader Vic's in '86

I realized there was no way I could be any cooler than that. Plus my hair *was* perfect that day. :P

[pink-o]

41. I never was cool. But I sure thought I was!

The better question for me would be: When did you grow up and figure out that you had the delusion of cool rather than the actual state of it?:evilgrin:

And yeah, as a bona fide crone (55) I would love to argue the concept that getting old blows, but I would be lying. I'm doing my best to stay in good physical shape, I run and bike, I do 3 days a week of strength training, but when I traveled with my 24 year old cousin to London, NO WAY could I stay up and party every night the way he did. I lasted 2 nights in a row, then trundled back to the hotel to watch BBC and drink French wine.

But here's my story and I'm sticking to it: When you get old you don't need to be cool anymore, cuz you have nothing left to prove to either yourself or the world. Therefore, you use you (limited) energy for other, more worthwhile pursuits.

Like it? It's yours to use!

[rrneck]

42. I think I went straight from kid to old fart. nt

[Old Troop]

43. Sadly, I think I was 11

[av8rdave]

44. Sometime in Jr. high...

[JVS]

45. I keep getting cooler. But I need to work on my PR.

Gotta go to some parties without getting kicked out.

[Boojatta]

57. Political parties?

I'm just wondering and hope you don't take this the wrong way. Did it occur to you that the letters of your DU username could, among other possibilities, stand for "Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin"?

Of course, Stalin wasn't kicked out of the party. He was the party.

[Taitertots]

46. Watching a music video and my house mate telling me we should get the shower cleaner in the video

I wanted to argue about how uncool that was, but I knew he was right.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

47. NEVER! HOW the fuck could I possibly look in the mirror and feel good about saying THAT shit?

I'm gonna be cool for CENTURIES after I'm dead, and that's just the way it IS.

:grouphug:

[tinymontgomery]

48. Two different times

once when I joined the Navy in 80 then when I turned 50 and couldn't keep up PT with my students,

[Crystal Clarity]

49. I never thought I was to begin with

Used to wonder what It'd be like though....

Learned in my 30's, rejected it, and am much more happily back... knowing it (some false perception of me) was not what I wanted :-)

[MrSlayer]

51. I'm so cool the mountains on the beer cans turn blue within fifty feet of me.

Not that I drink that crap but you get the idea. I'll still be cool when I'm 140.

[tigereye]

52. aw, you aren't old - just growing ....

Actually it sounds kind of pleasant. Everybody changes, it would be boring if we didn't.



I was never "cool," just kind of idiosyncratic... :D

[mysuzuki2]

54. Well, I'm a couple months shy of 62

and I'll let you know when I stop being cool.

[Bertha Venation]

55. Yesterday. When I was too timid to get out into the surf.

:cry:

[RandomThoughts]

56. That timidness is also strength.

You may have held the rope for those in the surf.

[Chan790]

58. I think I was 15.

I felt like I was 45. Being old sucked.

Today, I'm cooler than I've ever been before. I got that suave rake/gentleman thing going on like Cary Grant or George Clooney but I've got it at 30 instead of 50.