Man, people in New York are cool. Or, I should say, I think the people in New York are cool.
If you want to start out with major cool points with me, introduce yourself and tell me that you live in or have lived in NYC. I think I even give subconscious cool points to those who say they like the place.
This seems so weird now that I’ve become aware of it. Why on earth would an association with this city make one cooler? Really, now. It’s just a city. Yes, it’s a cool city to me. But, a place full of both the best in the world and the worst in the world, residents who can’t be generalized under any certain adjectives considering how high the population is.
But still, even the old people are cool to me. The 90-something-year-old woman who lives across the hall from us has a really cool haircut. Kind of the reverse mullet emo thing. I complimented her on it and she said she did it herself. My kind of girl. On another occasion on the Upper West Side, an older lady heard Cool Baby screaming in his stroller and said “Just give ‘im a bagel!” with a laugh.
There are also the countless people who have jumped to offer a hand in lifting the stroller up flights of stairs, returned thrown-overboard mittens to us, opened doors, offered their seats, entertained the antsy Cool Baby on the bus, or even informed us that he was missing a shoe, falling asleep at an odd posture, or might be cold.
Today I looked around at my Bible study and thought, “Wow, these ladies are cool. I totally don’t fit in here in that sense. But I wish I did.”
So my initial suspicion has proven to be true. This may just be one very expensive…very very expensive example of the Cool Parents trying way too hard to be cool. Who knew being nerds in high school would cost so much money so many years down the road.
Related posts:
- UPDATED: Cool Mum tries out for Sex and the City 2 – live blog and recap
- We live in the Worst City for Families. Woo-hoo.
- Live blog coming: Cool Mum crashes Sex and the City 2
- Trying WAY too hard to be cool, but finding out you’re a prideful dork
- Cool review, awarding points: Heavy strollers and Real Housewives
