No coat

[mirabella33]

DS, 16, year 12, just walked out in the house in brand new suit into pouring rain with no coat. Half an hour walk to school. Refused to wear one. Why?

He's a teenager??

Because he's 16 and thinks he knows best, let him crack on.

He's not alone I hardly see a coat in winter across our whole 6th form.

''Twas always the same. Personally I wore one and an umbrella but many refused 35 years ago

He's a teenager, that is the only reason you need.

Mine always used to wear a coat right through secondary. I wonder if a lot depends on where they have to leave the coat in school.

I can't imagine why they want to spend all day in wet clothes though!

Typical teenager ! Sometimes mine used to take an umbrella though but coats are a hated thing.

My ds only wears his if it snows yet walks round in a hoody when its scorching hot🙄

Teenage stubborn Moody McMoodypants?

to be fair, I'm 36 and I do the same thing 😂

My teen says it's because they have nowhere to put their coats and don't want to carry them around all day.

Just had the same conversation with DD 15 who was intending to go to school & play hockey all morning (no changing at school since covid) without the perfectly good zip up tracksuit jacket thing. Just a T-shirt and would get soaked to the skin. She's always cold as it is. It's a monsoon here. Madness.

My DS always went without a coat. I doubt he ever wears one now at 20. That's what they is like - cool. Or freezing cold when it's freeeeeezzzing.

It would be so embarrassing if his friends new he was able to perceive temperature. The same as they must never know he has parent, eats meals (not snacks) or gose in uncool shops, like supermarkets. It's the rules of teenagers.

At least they've moved on from giving themselves back issues by carrying heavy backpacks on only one shoulder, so they're ahead of when I was there age.

Because he's a teenager. Does he also wear the thickest and heaviest jumper known to man in the summer too?

Took me ages to realise, but DDs school was genuinely terrible for this. No coats in lessons, and nowhere to put them. So if you wear a coat you need to go to your locker, which might be nowhere near your tutor base, or the locker of the person you walked in with. Some of the lockers were outdoors, and one year DD had a bottom
one which was damp. So after all that palaver in the morning, in the afternoon you go to collect your cold, damp coat, and wear it home. No wonder she just didn’t bother.

We all did that

Teenagers are waterproof and don't feel the cold either - didn't you know?

Mine didn't have lockers or anywhere to leave coats, so couldn't be bothered to carry coats around all day.

I'm 23. When I was in college coats were seen as the height of embarrassment - even more so if you were wearing a blazer! (Seen as coat equivalent + their usually warm enough anyway).

My 14 yr old did this on Tuesday, first day back at school, new blazer