WHO DIED AND LEFT YOU IN CHARGE OF "COOL?"
As I stare my 37th birthday in the face, I can't help but to throw an age-old question out there to the cosmos ...
I look in the mirror and appear to be cool ... okay, mildly cool. More like a luke-warm cool.
I have hip clothing ... okay, a hip-like wardrobe, which I suppose is a step up from the broken hip wardrobe, but I digress.
I want to know why, when I say to one of my fourth graders today, and I quote, "Yo! Thompson*! Dude, zip it," they are all reduced to a fit of giggles (do fourth grade boys giggle? not sure ...), and then they commence to rolling their eyes.
I mean, these are the same children that pick their nose AND EAT IT in mixed company ... DURING LUNCH! When did they become the graders of COOL?
They like the Jonas Brothers, for heaven sake! And they wear clothing that has a ridiculous monkey on it that every refers to as Bobby Jack, but no one can explain why? Who deemed it necessary for each and every one of them to be granted a HIPNESS CARD?
As far as I'm concerned, 37 is the new, hip AND cool 25 ... and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I roll.
WHEN DID I CEASE BEING COOL?
I look in the mirror and appear to be cool ... okay, mildly cool. More like a luke-warm cool.
I have hip clothing ... okay, a hip-like wardrobe, which I suppose is a step up from the broken hip wardrobe, but I digress.
I want to know why, when I say to one of my fourth graders today, and I quote, "Yo! Thompson*! Dude, zip it," they are all reduced to a fit of giggles (do fourth grade boys giggle? not sure ...), and then they commence to rolling their eyes.
I mean, these are the same children that pick their nose AND EAT IT in mixed company ... DURING LUNCH! When did they become the graders of COOL?
They like the Jonas Brothers, for heaven sake! And they wear clothing that has a ridiculous monkey on it that every refers to as Bobby Jack, but no one can explain why? Who deemed it necessary for each and every one of them to be granted a HIPNESS CARD?
As far as I'm concerned, 37 is the new, hip AND cool 25 ... and that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I roll.
*Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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