Too Cool for School

Setting: on the beach with my mom and my friend.

Mom to Me: "I wanted to get you a hat for the beach so you don't get sunburned. And to cover your hair because it's turning yellow."

Me to Mom: "What kind of hat?"

Mom to Me: "You know, the one like Sandra Bullock wears. You'd look so cute."

Friend to Mom: "Those hats are like too cool for school."

Mom to Us: "What does that mean?"

Me to Mom: "You know, like too cool for school. You never heard that expression before?"

Mom to Us: "Well, yeah, but I don't understand. That's what those hats mean? That they're too cool for school?"

Friend and I exchange worried glances....

Me to Mom "No Mom. It means that people who wear those hats think they're really cool."

Mom to Us: "Oh. I still don't think it relates."