no, i'm not talking about the new "fastest, slimmest, sleekest, lightest, best-est" new iphone that's out;
the stupid new it car; the new movie; the new hit sitcom; the new chewing gum, really anything like that..
maybe the question was poorly worded. i'll try again.
do you ever see new things-- that are assuredly not new, but you have just never seen them before?
ok. yeah that was even worse.
the other day in lecture i witnessed something that was just new and interesting to me. i know it shouldn't have been-- (i blame the incredible dryness of professor H.) but well,
so it's this giant lecture hall with hundreds and hundreds of people, and due to the particular subject this class features... only complete and utter nerds sit in the front up by aforementioned blowhard professor.
oh and me. i sit there too, but... i'm an exception, and i don't really know what i am ;)
regular people just come in way up in the back entrances and sit close to all the exits.
anyway, one day this super cool kid comes and sits right up in the nerd section! no joke. this is crazy town, folks. mixing up all regulated social norms!? we just cannot have this. let me explain this a bit: this kid's "coolness" was not merely of my own arbitrary judgment, rather i use this term to describe someone that would be universally recognized as your classic all-american, star of the highschool football team, mr. popular, too-cool-for-school type, a.k.a. the kind of kid that never comes to class, except sometimes on exam days... you get the picture.
it was just really strange. no crony bros around anywhere. no earbuds in. no texting under the desk... no leaving after 5 minutes, it literally did not make any sense.
what was interesting to me though is how every once in a while during lecture he would look very slightly to his left and then slightly to his right and then very slowly reach into his jacket pocket all subtle-like. i of course thought it was your basic classic phone move. instead, he would pull out a pair of broken glasses.
just the left side frame was broken. he held them up on his face to see the powerpoint. after a few seconds i think he would get embarrassed by holding them on his face and he would hurriedly slide them back in his pocket before he thought anyone noticed.
i had never seen anyone do that before. it kind of reminded me of the days of the old-fashioned spectacle.
it was very definitely not a thing a "cool" guy would do.
and... well mr. monocle man, you'll never know this,
but, i for one, thought that was a good thing.
