I’m a prideful dork. Quick evidence:
I’ve never dry cleaned anything before. After many wearings, I finally took in my one nice pair of pants. I checked the pockets before handing them over to the nice lady. One back pocket: a piece of paper.
I made witty banter about how I didn’t want to leave anything in the pockets, like money. Then I reached in the other back pocket and pulled out a €5 bill (ooo… look at me with the euro symbol). Apparently, I last wore these pants in Germany. When I pulled out that €5 (i love how that looks), a feeling of pride washed over me [-5 cool points], like
[snooty voice]
Oooh… excuse me. I appear to have found a 5-euro banknote from our last jaunt to the Old World… oh ho ho ho ho! I guess I’ll just have Jeeves throw it on the pile!
[/snooty voice]
On my way out, I realized how stupid it was to feel pride for showing someone that we went to Europe. Lord, please forgive me for my pride and inflated sense of self-worth from blessings you’ve bestowed upon us. That is certainly uncool.
(photo: swperman)
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You said, “That is certainly uncool.”
Maybe so…but even more uncool-er would be not recognizing it. And oddly enough what turns this around and somehow makes it cool on a whole new level is your humility and transparency..Awesome!
you’re not helping my humility any!
it’s OK though, I have the perfect mantra for keeping my ego in check:
I used to play D&D.
I used to play D&D.
I used to play D&D.
ah…
I agree with Tam – Cool = Humility and willing to ask for forgivness
Euro stronger than the dollar = uncool b/c it makes said trips to the old world 1.4xs as much!
I am sitting here in wonder about how this post made me laugh, feel like I should encourage you to not be so hard on yourself, and then make me think of how arrogant I am and would probably miss a moment like this.
Great thoughts.
I was just impressed that you had Euros
I was just impressed that you made it to the dry cleaners.
Matt – yeah, that 1.4 really hurts on these trips. And you know what’s worse? Going to England with pesos in your wallet. Man, don’t EVER do that!
Brad – thanks
Brody – I guess I hadn’t been to a nice-pants-worthy occasion since our trip. I should sock that bill away. I could probably buy a car with it next year.
Amy – that is the true miracle of the story.