I am a cliché

[ablutiions]

Standing on the service station forecourt doing a few yogic stretches on our drive to holiday, I realised that I'm a cliché:

Middle aged Londoner, heading for a West Country holiday in my small eco friendly(ish) car, wearing a Boden cardi, and 'trendy' mum trainers with a flowery real cotton face mask dangled from my wrist. having eaten sourdough toast for breakfast. Oh, and carrying a chilly water bottle, natch.

And usually I'd be in France, but you know, Covid and all that.

Anyone else a walking cliché?

@Moonflower12

I feel I might be a Country cliche. I've been to check the pony this morning, who has taught all my 4 children to ride. I live on a country estate. I have a spaniel who goes shooting with my DP. I wear green wellies - old ones covered in mud. DP drives a muddy old Volvo. I have a 20 year old car.

For breakfast we had eggs I picked up from our neighbours honesty box on the way home from the pony.

Our house is a Victorian cottage in the middle of nowhere with flagged floors and mullioned windows. And a crappy old downstairs bathroom. My friend says I'm a Jilly Cooper character.

That's true middle class, most of the others are simply nouveau riche pretenders, what a dear friend calls the labels-lobby.

Only got to page 2, but getting a bit queasy from all the gleeful boasting of Large houses, successful company directors, top schools, private schools and top private schools 🥱

I liked the OP as doing a yoga stretch at a service station was a funny image

But the replies are lacking in the humorous self awareness displayed in OP

Christ, how the other half live, eh!?

I'm a cliche too, but in a very different way.

I'm a mid-millennial bisexual woman with ADHD, 2 cats, working in a creative industry, likes craft beer, bouldering and sweaty gigs, and has at least one tattoo that shows me up as a former emo kid. I know literally dozens of women like me...

I don't know anyone of the middle-class-Boden-wearing persuasion at all. Maybe my aunty, she shops at Booths.

This thread is all about a bit of self recognition and laughing at ourselves a bit.

That's the bit I'm not seeing tbh

It does seem like boasting, in most cases, and less of the laughing - more like, this is what to aspire to.

I do find it puzzling as while there's plenty of cliched life choices in Ireland I'm sure, I couldn't look at anyone, myself included, and say they fit any cliche to the extent described here.

For example, clothes. The brands described here are known and some people wear them. But they don't signify anything, they're not a 'thing'. Anyone I know wears whatever clothes they want. Some people are high-street fans, others more expensive but nothing that would group you in that way.

Similarly wealthy families are all wealthy in their own way, rather than being able to be classed like they are here.

I'm glad, reading some posts here.

i have liked avocados since the 1980s, i am not a cliche

on toast is a new fangled idea though and tbh although they are cheaper they are so rare that they are edible!

I didn't know I was a clichè until DD11 helpfully explained that I'm the living embodiment of the millennial clichè right down to the skinny jeans and side parted hair. Oh well, I shall console myself with a skinny caramel latte and some avo toast

@AdaFuckingShelby

I find your comment arsey, not the OP's. Run along now and derail another thread.

Do you mean me?

If so, how rude! You don't get to tell anyone how & what to post. Obnoxious.

@Dancingonmoonlight

These threads are excruciating

Agree with a high probability of being massively embellished.

It sounds like they aren't embellished, really, which is quite depressing.

@allycat4

These threads are excruciating.

False self-deprecation.

Yes. Crrrrrrrrrrrrrringe.

@ablutiions

Standing on the service station forecourt doing a few yogic stretches on our drive to holiday, I realised that I'm a cliché:

Middle aged Londoner, heading for a West Country holiday in my small eco friendly(ish) car, wearing a Boden cardi, and 'trendy' mum trainers with a flowery real cotton face mask dangled from my wrist. having eaten sourdough toast for breakfast. Oh, and carrying a chilly water bottle, natch.

And usually I'd be in France, but you know, Covid and all that.

Anyone else a walking cliché?

Oh, that must be just awful for you

i am not a cliche, i am quirky
odd

@EarringsandLipstick

Sorry *@peaceanddove* I posted before I read your second post.

No problem x

Excruciating.

@PropertyFlipper

Lovely opportunity for some of you to big yourselves up, la-queen style here. Ridiculous nonsense.

Ohhh fuck, I'd forgotten La Queen, she was a right pain in the posterior!

I don't know about you being a cliche, but I bet you looked a spectacular twat doing yoga on the petrol station forecourt 🤣

No one mention the PO!

I'm Irish and I drink too much. Does that count? Oh and I'm very sweary.

[quote ablutiions]@somuddled I love that idea. I have some TV friends (of course I do!) and will mention it. [/quote]
Please do and give me credit otherwise one day I will be screaming 'that was my idea' at the TV and my husband will be all 'sure it was'.

Are you sure you are going to the West Country?

Because I was in North Norfolk a couple of weeks ago, nice restaurant and they might as well have had a bouncer on the door 'If you aren't wearing blue linen you aren't coming in!'

Sadly DH and I both fitted the criteria and joined all the bots inside.

@therocinante

Christ, how the other half live, eh!?

I'm a cliche too, but in a very different way.

I'm a mid-millennial bisexual woman with ADHD, 2 cats, working in a creative industry, likes craft beer, bouldering and sweaty gigs, and has at least one tattoo that shows me up as a former emo kid. I know literally dozens of women like me...

I don't know anyone of the middle-class-Boden-wearing persuasion at all. Maybe my aunty, she shops at Booths.

Give it 15 years and a kid or two…. No kids, you may escape this cliche. Personal experience. I was SO DAMN COOL when I was younger. Now fit so many of these cliches.

@ShaunaTheSheep the correct term is grockle box. At least on Devon

@voltuti. Yes I did. A right Twat but that vs back and leg pain for the next 4 hour journey I'll take it.

@regukar. Sweary is good. Profanity is my middle name. I mean not literally my middle name because that would be supremely wanky

I'd love to have the houses the people say they have on this thread.Youd never see me in a Breton top though.

I had a full-on existential crisis in similar vein when I got out of the car to take the kids to Center Parcs and basically walked into a woman who looked exactly like me down to the Ugg boots and purple gilet with a Weird Fish macaroni jumper underneath.