Krista: What do you think of this shirt? It's not really 'you' is it?
Me: If I were rich and lived on a sailboat and could wear white chinos and deck shoes with no socks all year, then I would gladly wear that shirt.
We wandered into the coat section, and Krista grabbed a coat that was thrown over the racks instead of on a hanger.
Krista: This coat is nice.
Me: Yeah. If you're a girl.
Nearby (male) Hipster: Actually that's my coat. I threw it over the rack there while I was looking around.
Me: Uhhhh, sorry.
Krista immediately steered me out of the store and into another store, completely mortified. And the hipster wandered the mall like a broken ghost, crying and wailing and embracing the deep sea of sadness that confronted him with the realization that I didn't understand him at all, not at all.
THE END
Ha! I think this will make Portland a better place to live. One humbled hipster at a time.
ReplyDeleteAwesome!
ReplyDeleteTruly Awesome! Wish I could have seen that for myself.
ReplyDeleteI will help to salve your conscience: I'm sure the hipster was so assured of his own manliness that your unasked for opinion only strengthened his sense of virility, and he probably walked away assured that your own sense of masculinity was a source of personal doubt, revealed by your reaction to the perceived feminine nature of his attire. -- See. Don't you feel better now?
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with 'OneBigHappy.' I'm sure that the 'Portland Hipster' was relieved to see that a 'Portland Middle-Aged Guy' didn't think much of his jacket. I'm sure this only re-enforced that the jacket was in fact hip! hahaha
ReplyDeleteThis incident ought to make you more secure of your own "hipsterness" knowing a cool hipster would actually shop inside the same clothing store as a middle-aged pastor (and inside Banana Republic no less)! :D
ReplyDeletePerhaps this is your calling--reaching out to the hipsters? :)