Thursday, April 16, 2009

He's Not Cool and Neither is He

Perhaps one of the most irritating and fatuous things that I occasionally come across in my Ventures into the General Public is little boys (as in, under 10 years old) who have mohawks, fauxhawks, earrings, or some other ridiculous confirmation of their parents' stupidity. Most of the time, these kids are ill-behaved little hellions with disrespectful attitudes towards their parents (understandable) 
                   Lame Kid                         and strangers (unacceptable). The parents are usually "Cool Moms" or "Cool Dads" who are, in fact, completely uncool. Usually the dialogue between the parents and the children in a store goes something like this:
COOL DAD: "Hey Tyson, didja' see this cool [insert the least cool thing in the store]?"
CHILD *in scratchy obnoxiously-loud high-pitched always-on-verge-of-whiny voice*: "WHOA! COOL! Can you get that for me?"
COOL DAD: "Hehe, well didja' save yer allowance?"
CHILD: "Yeah, Dad, yeah! I've got 20 bucks!"
COOL DAD: "Well this one is 40 bucks, you got that much, bro?"
CHILD: "I WANT IT! I WANT IT! I WANT IT!"
COOL DAD: "Cool... OK, tell you what: I'll pay the difference."
CHILD: "Yeah! Cool!"                                Lame Dad
Meanwhile, it is absolutely 100% perfectly obvious to everyone else in the store that
A) This child is incredibly annoying,
B) This parent is incredibly uncool,
C) This parent has always been incredibly uncool,
D) This child will grow up to be incredibly uncool.

2 comments:

NoJGenny said...

Oh yeah. Maybe they're showing how cool they are be being so rebelliously uncool.

brian said...

Too true, too true. *cringe*