Shades

It's cold. I mean true British "Fricking Brrrr!" cold today, pushing zero when we went out, frost and ice... Brisk, I believe the phrase is, thanks mostly to the fact the last few nights have been completely devoid of cloud.

Of course, no cloud not only means frost, it also means that the sun is bright as anything. So, there's me, walking Jaysen to school in my Fat Bastard coat, a jumper, hands inside the sleeve for warmth, and, of course, my trusty sunglasses. Granted, I wear them when it's bright, not just sunny, as squinting in the light gives me a headache.

"What do you look like?" said random parent at the school this morning.

"A-buh?" came my incoherent reply, looking down at myself. Blue jeans, blue coat, some coloured jumper (beige, I think), black boots, sunglasses. Now, while I am a fat pasty with zero dress sense, I am pretty sure that I was dressed in a fairly non-out-there style. "A-buh?" came my reply again after the inspection.

"It's mid-winter and you're wearing sunglasses!" he chortled. "Haha what do you look like?!"

So, by now I've managed to upgrade my speech from nonsensical phonetics, to actual words. "But it's sunny - really sunny!" I protest, not bothering to mention that they are also prescription glasses so I can actually see. He laughed again. "Yeah but it's winter!"

And he wandered off after his spawn that was running off into the distance, leaving me standing there, a beacon amongst the mini-people running around before going into class. Looking around the playground, I noted that I was in fact the ONLY person wearing sunglasses. Everyone else was squinting into the light while wrapped up.

So, have I committed some fashion faux pas? Do sun glasses have some sort of unwritten rule on them; "If thine weather is below 10 degrees, thou shalt not wear shades"

People wonder why I don't pay attention to fashion.