Folks, I gotta add this. I'm not a hipster. However, I've heard people say to me, "so you're doing the hipster thing now", more times than I can count in the last 5-6 years. I seriously had no idea what they were talking about so about a year ago I looked up "hipster" on the internet. OMG
How was I confused with a hipster? The first time I heard someone mention the H-word in reference to me was years ago I came into the office wearing an old winter coat I had in my closet for decades. It was unusually cold that day and the coat from the previous year was found in the bottom of the closet with some paint supplies that apparently fell over on it and leaked all over it. Needing a coat, I grabbed that old-thing my father used to wear. Apparently, it was something a hipster would wear today. I only knew it was a coat and it would keep me warm.
The second time I was accused of being a hipster was shortly after the doctor said I needed to quit smoking. My lungs where apparently getting kind of crusty. Being the type I am, I didn't want to quit smoking, but the doctor agreed that if I smoked a pipe and DID NOT INHALE it would be much better than smoking cigarettes. My grandfather smoked a pipe his whole life, so I figured I'd give it a try. I found that I love smoking a pipe if the pipe tobacco is good quality stuff. So now I have a collection of briar pipes and I smoke mostly G.L.Pease pipe tobacco. Trust me, Captain Black is the budweiser of the tobacco world. At any rate, guess what happened next. "So, you smoke a pipe. You must be one of those hipster types". Even worse, I overheard once some younger kids say, "Dude, that guy is way to old too try to be a hipster".
Add to all of this the fact that I like "Good" beer. Yes, apparently wanting to drink good beer can label you a hipster now too. About a year ago I asked one of my local beer stores if they could order me some Sierra Nevada beers besides the Pale Ale. The lady running it said, "Oh, you're wanting some of that hipster beer. There is a place 10 miles that way that keeps a lot of that stuff for the tourist". So I drove the 10 miles and was happy to see a shop that keeps a large selection of micro-brewery beers. However, they only keep them in stock during the tourist season. Oh well, better than nothing.
So here is to all of us that are hipsters and didn't know it. The thing is, I was never trying to be trendy or any of that other ignorant crap. I seriously don't care about looking any particular way. The only people in the world who's opinion of me I care about is my immediate family. As for those people that are trying to be trendy, liberal, look cool, and chokes on a gurgling pipe.....go ahead. And I'll give you $20 for that $300 pipe you bought to look cool and smart, but you decided you don't like the taste of pipe tobacco because you thought Captain Black was supposed to be good or something. lol
How was I confused with a hipster? The first time I heard someone mention the H-word in reference to me was years ago I came into the office wearing an old winter coat I had in my closet for decades. It was unusually cold that day and the coat from the previous year was found in the bottom of the closet with some paint supplies that apparently fell over on it and leaked all over it. Needing a coat, I grabbed that old-thing my father used to wear. Apparently, it was something a hipster would wear today. I only knew it was a coat and it would keep me warm.
The second time I was accused of being a hipster was shortly after the doctor said I needed to quit smoking. My lungs where apparently getting kind of crusty. Being the type I am, I didn't want to quit smoking, but the doctor agreed that if I smoked a pipe and DID NOT INHALE it would be much better than smoking cigarettes. My grandfather smoked a pipe his whole life, so I figured I'd give it a try. I found that I love smoking a pipe if the pipe tobacco is good quality stuff. So now I have a collection of briar pipes and I smoke mostly G.L.Pease pipe tobacco. Trust me, Captain Black is the budweiser of the tobacco world. At any rate, guess what happened next. "So, you smoke a pipe. You must be one of those hipster types". Even worse, I overheard once some younger kids say, "Dude, that guy is way to old too try to be a hipster".
Add to all of this the fact that I like "Good" beer. Yes, apparently wanting to drink good beer can label you a hipster now too. About a year ago I asked one of my local beer stores if they could order me some Sierra Nevada beers besides the Pale Ale. The lady running it said, "Oh, you're wanting some of that hipster beer. There is a place 10 miles that way that keeps a lot of that stuff for the tourist". So I drove the 10 miles and was happy to see a shop that keeps a large selection of micro-brewery beers. However, they only keep them in stock during the tourist season. Oh well, better than nothing.
So here is to all of us that are hipsters and didn't know it. The thing is, I was never trying to be trendy or any of that other ignorant crap. I seriously don't care about looking any particular way. The only people in the world who's opinion of me I care about is my immediate family. As for those people that are trying to be trendy, liberal, look cool, and chokes on a gurgling pipe.....go ahead. And I'll give you $20 for that $300 pipe you bought to look cool and smart, but you decided you don't like the taste of pipe tobacco because you thought Captain Black was supposed to be good or something. lol
Whats more interesting is that most people trying to be hipsters can never be hipsters because they (probably, don't want to make too many assumptions here) think being hipster is cool and therefore are breaking the number 1 rule of being a hipster...
