Cool enough for target

I’ve spent a lot of time the past five years traveling with guys who play instruments on stage. That means I’m used to being the “uncool” one. I have accepted this role. I am married to a hottie who loves me and so I have no one I need to impress by being cool. I buy normal clothes from normal stores and I have a normal haircut.

The other day I was in Target with my lovely wife. While she was looking at jewelry and purses I decided to step over to the wall of sunglasses to find a new pair (mine are getting pretty scratched). I figured Target would be just the right mix of uncool, suburban, normalcy with a hint of trendy mixed in. Remembering how cool I thought my dad’s aviators were when I was a kid, these were the first pair I gravitated towards.

Obviously, I bought them. Now I feel like a poser every time I put them on… like I think I am cooler than I am. This is the same fear I had when I first got my iPhone. I was afraid people would think that I was trying to show off, or that I thought I was better or cooler than they were because I had it. So, let this be my public admittance that I know that I am not cool, but I thought I was cool enough for Target sunglasses.

Have you ever wanted to buy or wear something but been afraid people would think you were cocky or trying too hard to be cool?