What's the correlation, if any, between "coolness" and "niceness"?Sitting at a wooden bench-table on Sunday afternoon with an 18 0z. Chicken-Fried Steak and a pound of Alamo Fajita goodness between us, my boyfriend and I neatly created four categories of people: cool-cool, cool-uncool, uncool-cool, and uncool-uncool. Not too difficult to decipher the meaning of these, the first part of the designation refers to how superficially cool you are (i.e. who you're friends with, where you hang out, what special perks/privileges find you, etc.). The second part reflects how cool you actually are as a person (i.e. how rewarding others find your company, how pleasant you are, if what you bring to the intellectual/artistic table is valuable, etc.). The reason we created this classification is the answer to the question I presented to you above; the answer, which to me, is a nagging contradiction. "Cool" and "nice" exist in a mutually exclusive world, and everybody knows it.
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