What Did You Do As A Kid To Act Cool?

I was watching the news last night and vaping was being talked about, again, in relation to the younger generation. How 10 year olds are vaping so they can look cool. While I agree that 10 is way too young to be vaping (must be 13 to ride the vape), I don’t blame these kids. You need that edge to stand above everyone and be the kid people in your grade want to be. It’s like being the quarterback of a blue-blood college team. You are the cock of the walk, the envy of the class. I don’t condone it, but I understand it. It got me thinking, however, about what I did to be cool back when I was that age.

1-Wear an ace bandage for no reason. I’m not sure if these even exist anymore, but back then if you were rocking an ace bandage everyone wanted to know what was wrong with you. Kamryn coming up and asking me what I did to my ankle in 4th grade was the highlight of that year. I would wear them even when I didn’t need them. My parents got smart to this and stopped letting me use them. I got so desperate that I would fake a limp because I “Rolled my ankle” so that they would let me wear them. My brother would call me out on this, but I used the deny, deny, deny method. Still do to this day.

2- Keep all the ski passes on my jacket. I wanted everyone to know I could shred. The more passes I had hanging off me the better. “What did you do this weekend?” “Oh nothing. Just tore up the bunny slope for like, 5 hours Saturday and all day Sunday.” I took it so far as to take passes off my friends jackets when they weren’t paying attention. Nobody could have as many as I did. Otherwise people would realize I was boring and, as I got older, unattractive.

3-Wear mid calfs with shorts. Maybe this was just a me thing, but when I was in middle school I would always wear white Nike middies with athletic shorts. I didn’t even go with the black ones. I was so white that you couldn’t make fun of how white I was. For some reason I thought it made me cool. Unlike the first two nobody actually brought them up or even talked to me. I’m now realizing why I had no friends in middle school.

Those are the top 3 things I did to look cool back in the day. What are yours?