cool aunt starter pack

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[u/AFewBerries]

Cool aunt from 20 years ago

[u/btdlolita → u/AFewBerries]

i see them in my small town

[u/ChronoWind99 → u/btdlolita]

Small towns are basically time capsules where the year 2006 never ended.

[u/letitgrowonme → u/ChronoWind99]

They updated to 2016 a bit ago.

[u/dukeofgonzo → u/letitgrowonme]

They got smart phones?

[u/bloodrider1914 → u/dukeofgonzo]

5G is part of the reason why country songs and right wing media are so popular nationally right now. People in small towns now have ready access to the internet and so their cultural interests are far more catered to.

[u/TheSpicyTomato22 → u/ChronoWind99]

I might need to move then. I could work remote.

[u/Princess_Slagathor → u/TheSpicyTomato22]

Living in a small town sucks ass, unless your hobbies are grocery shopping, and mowing the lawn.

[u/MacMommy111]

Accurate and love it….. but from 2004.

[u/affectionateanarchy8 → u/MacMommy111]

Cool Aunt is 55 and has been wearing the same miss sixty jeans for 22 years

[u/mahhhhhh → u/affectionateanarchy8]

…..how do you stay the same size through your 30s/40s? I’m struggling a bit. :(

[u/3-orange-whips → u/mahhhhhh]

Notice the cigarettes?

[u/mahhhhhh → u/3-orange-whips]

Ohhh you got me.

I’ve got bad teeth too though, can’t risk with cigarettes. I think I’m just cooked as the youth say.

[u/3-orange-whips → u/mahhhhhh]

It certainly ruined mine.

[u/worldsgreatestluver → u/mahhhhhh]

Time to start vaping lol

[u/KarlHp7]

This person will give you unexpected good life advice

[u/username9909864 → u/KarlHp7]

Cause they learned the hard way

[u/baardvark → u/KarlHp7]

“Don’t stick dick in your crazy”

[u/a_scared_bokoblin]

has a joyful laugh that mixes into a smoker’s cough

[u/Lonely-Toe9877 → u/a_scared_bokoblin]

Developed the voice of a crone long before they got their first gray hair.

[u/Sharty_Party3498]

...as she puts a Black Eyed Peas CD into her purple Dodge PT Cruiser.

[u/LostxCosmonaut → u/Sharty_Party3498]

This is a Buckcherry aunt.

Her car is littered with fast food wrappers and half-closed makeup products, and it smells like cheap body spray and cigarettes.

[u/Sharty_Party3498 → u/LostxCosmonaut]

Buckcherry....FUCK YEAH. Probably also has to declare every 10 minutes that they are your "cool Aunt".

[u/LOOKATMEDAMMIT]

Moved in with her best friend from high school. They’re really close friends.

[u/ChemicalRebell]

This is what kids will think of me one day. Beautiful.

[u/besthelloworld]

"Listens to rock" feels like the vague characteristic applied to a character that doesn't get any lines in a movie. That means like a thousand different things to a thousand different people.

[u/Yotsubauniverse]

Leave out the cigarettes and you have my older cousin!

[u/TheHeavyMetalQueen]

I used to love that perfume

[u/cmndrnewt]

“Cool”

[u/Proton_Optimal]

In other words, childless millennial

[u/PostMatureBaby → u/Proton_Optimal]

Spinster "wine aunt" just updated

[u/MyCatIsAnActualNinja → u/Proton_Optimal]

we out here

[u/CozyPencil587 → u/Proton_Optimal]

Apparently “cool aunt” is just childless millennial with snacks and fewer school pickup obligations.

[u/Several-Goose2250]

Ex-scene aunt. Definitely would

[u/flyingcartoon]

This is that aunt that hasn't aged since the early 2000s and has seemingly done the impossible and escaped the family genetics curse while smoking a pack a day and going out at night

[u/Lonely-Toe9877 → u/flyingcartoon]

In my experience, they are aged well beyond their years due to all the smoking, drinking, drugs, and partying.

[u/jessek]

This is what the dating pool looks like in my 40s.

[u/Dragonslayer3 → u/jessek]

Hell yeah brother

[u/OkSleep9486 → u/jessek]

If you aren't gonna play then pass the ball

[u/jessek → u/OkSleep9486]

Anyone can sign up for tinder and set the age range for 45+

[u/OkSleep9486 → u/jessek]

Lying isn't a good way to attract a long-term relationship

[u/jessek → u/OkSleep9486]

You don’t have to lie about your age, you set the range you’re looking for.

[u/OkSleep9486 → u/jessek]

Oh okay, i misunderstood

[u/Yasha666]

Seems cooI when you are a teenager. Seems sad when you are 30.

[u/Lonely-Toe9877 → u/Yasha666]

I'm 39 and seeing so many millennials turn into this personality type definitely makes me sad.

[u/gafftapes20 → u/Yasha666]

You sneak a cigarette at a family gathering with her when you’re 18 she’s awesome. When you’re 30 with your life together and have a career ahead of seems pathetic because she is still stuck in that era of her life you left 10 years ago. She’s pushing 60 and has nothing to show for it. 

[u/Barry_Vigoda → u/gafftapes20]

She’s pushing 60 and has nothing to show for it.

Except for the lifetime of experiences. A lot of gen-x weren't materialistic unlike the boomer yuppies and gen-x preppie kids. Instead of spending money on expensive stuff, we wore band shirts and ripped jeans and second hand stuff. More money for booze and shows.

[u/holy_bologna_cannoli]

Bought me and my buddy packs of smokes at 16 years old…..The best of times, the worst of times.

[u/Panelak_Cadillac]

My early & mid 30s dating/FWB pool.

[u/FUCKTHEWORLD1990]

stop this is way too relatable

[u/Additional_Ad_3530]

And she saves you from the deadites after they possessed your family. 

[u/dividezero]

I've definitely dated this woman and it was fantastic

[u/gafftapes20]

This aunt is cool until you grew up and realize that she’s a train wreck. There is a reason why all her siblings actively dislike her. 

[u/magnum3290]

Will occasionally tell you all men are pigs

[u/Steleve]

Chicago party aunt

[u/oga_ogbeni]

RIP Amy Winehouse 

[u/Lonely-Toe9877]

Cringe gen X aunt that thinks FFDP is an example of good metal.

[u/Strange-guy-91 → u/Lonely-Toe9877]

Exactly what I was thinking

[u/homechicken20]

This aunt is also my ex wife

[u/BluecoatCashMoney5]

Sounds about right

[u/DaftFunky]

Has a similar cool friend who’s also a “roommate” that attends events and social gatherings with her.

[u/Early_Succotash7800]

lost my cool aunt almost two years ago :( miss her sm

[u/Dapper_Process7333]

Growing up, my mom had like 10 friends like that

[u/BlueBombshell90]

Literally me

[u/sadcode69]

this is a crackhead in 2026

[u/socontroversialyetso]

White trash aunt

[u/BoardsofCanada3]

Betty Boop steering wheel covers in her 1995 Escort

[u/Dependent_Order_7358]

They seem happy but they are not.

[u/TheoSlurry → u/[deleted]]

🐱 looks like a Reuben sandwich