"Where's you jacket, son, you've got to be freezing!" One day after school I stopped by a girlfriend's house to meet her parents, "Um, could you leave the coat in your car? They wouldn't understand." What's to understand I wondered? They can't fathom how completely badass my black leather trench coat is? Would my edgy and exciting ways tear their vanilla suburban world asunder? Fine, I left it in the car. I wanted to be buried in it.īut then after a few months of living with it I began to feel the first pangs of rejection. out!" And then I'd strike some completely badass pose. I made the rounds at school going from friend to friend, "Ahem," I'd say, "check. So the black leather trench coat came home with me that day. I'll see your oversized brown bomber jacket and raise you this long, sleek, vision of the future! Best of all it was on sale. We're talking cyberpunk meets Doc Holiday. It was a semi-double breasted deal with a wrap around collar. It was badass, my ticket to instant cool. While walking through the mall I spied it: long, black, leather. The year was 1994 and I was a high school junior. And I recently ditched the military surplus, boiled-wool one I had in college for a secondhand Pierre Cardin-only $40 at a local resell-it shop!) (And see, the thing is, I too am a connoisseur of the long trenchcoat. My thoughts at the time: This guy probably thinks he looks really slick and sophisticated, but unfortunately, most of his idea of what makes him seem slick, cool, and a connoisseur of the "finer things" at least looks to have been gleaned from reading beer geek blogs online.Īnd why did I think that, after seeing the guy behind me in line for maybe a minute at most?īecause he was wearing that freakin' leather coat! The entire package added up to one word for me: nerd. He was buying a 6-pack of fancy dark German beer of some sort, a baguette and a couple other small items. He looked to be about mid-20s, and was otherwise wearing garb I associate with lawyers and/or political types: button-down white collared shirt (buttoned all the way up) red, striped power tie glasses curly hair. About a month and a half ago, the guy behind me in line at the grocery store was wearing a coat like that.
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