Cute?

We are waiting at an RV dealer to have the rPod winterized. This process kind of signals the beginning of the end for this trip. We are on the outskirts of San Antonio, but a day's drive north and we will be back in freezing territory again. We are still several days from home, but the next few days will mostly be driving. Winterization amounts to blowing our the water lines and adding antifreeze. Some folks do this themselves. Some folks change their own oil, too. Neither of these tasks is part of my skill set.

While we were walking out of the dealer's office and heading for some food, a couple of ladies stopped us in the parking area and asked if that was our rPod. We said yes. They then asked how we liked it and they added that it was "cute". This seems to be the word people apply to our camper - cute. Over and over - the rPod is unusual and people tell us it is cute. We said that we like it a lot, but feel small when parked next to the other RVs in camping areas. The ladies said that theirs was one of these giants and we thanked them for the shade.

I guess I would rather be called cute than a lot of other things. Cindy thinks they actually mean "hip". Being a hipster is kind of a current thing so I am not sure if she means hip as in hipster or hip as in cool or some similar term from the '60s. Hipster is this kind of studied look that is purposefully created and requires knowledge of what hipsters wear and do. I think our son is on the edge of being a hipster, but he does video and produces for a living so this is probably the thing to be. Hipsters like to think of themselves as "creatives". In contrast, I think of hip as casual, but confident. Hip is being willing to be a little different and not under the influence of the mobs that follow trends. 

That is me all over - confident and a little different. Cute is just fine with me. 

Time to drive again.

[San Antonio]