Are/were your parents cool?

[yvr girl]

I don't think mine were. They are quirky and have led interesting lives, but I don't think they were ever "cool."

[HEyHEY]

1. No....my dad was not hip by any means

Fucking guy would freak out on us for, like, thinking about drinking.

[graywarrior]

2. My mother was a professional singer/actress

My dad was an artist forced to work a real job. He was also a great drunk.

[bigwillq]

3. Yes my parents are "cool"

My mom more so than my dad but my dad is also, just in a different way. He's more 'old school', that 50s era, close mindedness but sometimes you can't help the way you're brought up.

[spacelady]

4. Mine were so old they were cool, or maybe just worn out.

I was born in 1962; My mom was 37 & my dad was 52. They insisted I was planned. My dad passed away & my mom is way cooler than I am.

[Redstone]

25. Hey, if he was 52, with a 37-year-old wife, he must have had something.

Who needs cool when you have what he had?

Redstone

[bliss_eternal]

5. My mother tried to be...

...by hanging out and talking to my friends. They all thought she was very cool. They just didn't know that after they left she usually found a reason to beat the hell out of me.

Unfortunately, her being 'cool' was part of her own narcisstic and borderline sociopathic nature. She had a need and desire to take away anything I had to make it her own. Also a pathetic attempt to relive her 'best years' which she considered highschool and her youth.

[Ptah]

6. my parents were so cool that

Abe Lincoln was often quoted.
At the dinner table.

[bleedingheart]

7. My dad was cool...my mom is not.

[Kire]

26. same here

[johnnie]

8. Yes

For the most part. My father was pretty strict (25 years in the USMC), but he was fair. There were times when I thought he was an asshole, but looking back.. I was the one that was an asshole...lol.

My parents are still pretty cool for being in their 60s.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Perhaps my father is only cool in my mind...but he is...to me.

I, of course, am the woman they wrote 1985 about (so says my daughter) tragically unhip even. Now where is my Aha tape? :hi:

[momophile]

10. mine WHERE cool...

both were hippies who taught us kids to be open-minded, compassionate, thoughtful people. They had the coolest record collection - Beatles, Stones, Doors, etc...

But then something happened and they turned. No nice way to put this... they turned Republican. Yikes!!! They've even lost their memories and wonder where they went wrong with us liberal kids of theirs!!

Parents...

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Mallory?....Mallory Keaton? Is that you?

;) :hi:

[momophile]

14. please don't tell me...

Did Mr. and Mrs. Keaton turn to the dark side when they got older? Please say no.

Otherwise, yes, my parents were a bit like the Keatons. But I never had a repug brother - thankfully (although now that I think of it, I do have one sister who, while she didn't bother to vote, would have voted for W because Kerry creeped her out).

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. Oh no...I just think they got a little stuffier as the show went on.

:hi: Kerry creeped her out..and George doesn't? :scared:

[haydukelives]

12. No

dad (now dead) very uncool
mom is a freeper, nuf said

[spindrifter]

13. No way were my parents cool

I've read the other comments and am sorry that so many of us, myself included had parents who were uncool for a variety of reasons.

[hickman1937]

15. My Mom was tall thin and pretty,

and my Dad got a branch library built out in our rural community. They were cool before I knew what cool was. Alcohol brought them down. WW2 wreaked both of them.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

16. My Poppa's Cool, and a Ladies Man To Boot. My Mother was a wacko.

[Left Is Write]

17. To me they are.

[patsimae]

19. It's only my oprinion

That if your parents were really cool while you were growing up, then they weren't doing their job.

At that time, they're supposed to be your parents. Not your friends.

When I was young, I thought my dad was especially uncool, because he had a very dense Irish brogue that none of my friends could understand. He could also be very eccentric, which embarressed us to no end.

[yvr girl]

28. Not necessarily

Parents can be cool and also establish and enforce discipline. They can be 'current', have a certain 'joi de vive', etc.

[elshiva]

20. MY PARENTS ARE COOL...

to me because they are very loving and liberal and accepting of
me as a bisexual/lesbian...

[rockymountaindem]

21. Oh, for sure.

My parents are the best!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

22. I think my parents are cool NOW.......

But when I was growing up? Forget it!

I was a very rebellious first-born.....VERY!

It was good to move and get away from them when I went to college.....

But we have quite a lot in common now!

:hi:

[Straight Shooter]

23. No. As my mother would say, don't make me laugh.

But I'm not cool either. :)

[Redstone]

24. Nope.

Redstone

[khashka]

27. That's a tough one...

Both were Young Republicans in college. Later they both became fundies.

My dad introduced me to the joys of pornography, my mom (when I got all politcal about being gay) defended me even though she got death threats.

So an a minor scale of coolness they fail (they got no street cred), on a major scale of coolness, they rock.


Khash.

[proud patriot]

29. Cool as in "In" or up "with the Jones" NO

But they are very cool people in my book .

[u4ic]

30. My late mother was

and didn't know it.

My father...no, but wanted to be.

[progmom]

31. yep

I've always been impressed by my parents.

[Seabiscuit]

32. My parents were a nightmare's nightmare.

(so that's my excuse?)

[yknot]

33. My mom is cool as they come, my dad...

god rest his soul, was a marine officer who, after my mom left him, literally drank himself to death (leaving los vegas style). Probably TMI, huh.