I got a Hövdinghjälm for christmas. And it has put me in a very tough situation.

Not only is the doll that an adult male get a so expensive gift (of his mother). It is worse. Not a fan can I ride around with a Hövdinghjälm.

as well resignera in a kind of airbagskyddad, vasastanig medelklassdvala. Start dedicating the weekends to Fabriquebullefrossande and Årstavikspromenader (which already happens). Start jogging to work in tights and broddförsedda running shoes (which thank god is not happening yet). My last shred of youthful subversivitet would be blown away.

the Step is not far. I already own eltandborste and sodastreamer and spends too much time at Bukowskis auction site. Certainly listening to förortsrapparen Ivory. But don’t know if it makes things better.

it’s not going to be safe and cool at the same time ( sorry to all the mothers). It is an invention, often from mothers. The same thing applied to winter shoes when I was a child. A pair of boots is not cool, blötsura Converse and blåfrusna toes is ballare.

And to all of you who say that it is certainly possible and that I’m a fool who thinks, like this: just as a mother-that effect.

choose and I am far too vain.

at the same time, it would be even töntigare if I – despite my new expensive possession – bikes hjälmlös and hurt me in an accident. How could I explain something so stupid (for the mother)?

Call it the Stockholm ängsligaste hipsterhaveri. But I have not been on a bike since christmas eve.

John Falkirk is a reporter at the DN Sthlm and mom I promise, I’ll use the helmet. Read more of his chronicles, as, for example, if södermalmsbor who is concerned about the gentrification that they themselves are a part of .