I guess it is inevitable, that in every guy's life there comes a point where you realize that your youth and a portion of your "coolness" abandons you. Maybe it's when we start to loose our hair or perhaps when that spare tire starts to form around our midsection. It could even be when we start to think it's ok to wear black socks and shoes with our shorts. Whatever the particular case, there comes a time when you look at yourself and ask, "what the hell happened to me, I'm not cool anymore?"
For me, this loss of self esteem came about 7 years ago. I was about 33 and still in pretty good athletic shape. I used to love to go to the batting cages around Indianapolis and hit baseballs. It was one of the sports I could still stand out as being pretty darn good.
Anyway, One day while doing my regular thing at the batting cage, several young girls came over and sat behind me, to watch me hit. Of course regular male instinct took over and I began to show off. I was really whacking the balls around, because like I said earlier, "I was pretty good." The balls were coming in around 80 miles per hour, which for you non-baseball people, is a pretty fast pitch. With every discharge from the machine, (whooosh) I would take a big swing and hit most of the balls, to the far fence, while my young female audience, ooh'd and aah'd. I was really in heaven.
At about this time, one of the balls came in really low so I stuck my bat out to flick it back at the machine. When I did this, the ball fouled off the plate and struck me (you guessed it) right in the coconuts. I dropped like a sack of potatoes and was in serious pain. I could hear the girls politely giggling in the background and it was draining my ego by the second. I kept thinking, "how can I get out of this and still look cool?" During my few moments of contemplation, I forgot the machine was still on and then I heard the familiar whooshing sound again. I turned my head around just in time to take another baseball right between the eyes. Now the polite giggling behind me had turned to full scale laughter.
Somehow I was able to crawl and then limp out of the cage. I was very careful not to make eye contact with any of the young women, that had witnessed my spectacle. As I poured myself back into my car and headed home, I had a revelation. I wasn't cool anymore.:)
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Mysterious_URS
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May 29 @ 8:36PM
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 ...you may have been embarrassed, but that does by no way mean that you are no longer cool....Coolness in a man, is like Sexy in a woman....it is the continued confidence that determines one or the other.
JMHO
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jentoblues101
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May 29 @ 8:54PM
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And isn't it liberating?
And now with this newfound knowledge you can concentrate on women with substance.
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Doree686
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May 29 @ 9:15PM
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I think you are cool, just for telling that story! Doree
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conny90045
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May 29 @ 9:19PM
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Awwwwww............Don't feel bad!!!! Your look pretty damn good to me  
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sweetsmile273
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May 29 @ 9:57PM
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ur still cool.... 
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Wolf36
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May 29 @ 11:26PM
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I want to thank all of you for taking time to read and comment on my blog. I guess I'm the type of person who doesn't really take things too hard and I do spend a lot of time laughing at myself.:)))) Sometimes I think that's the only way to be these days.
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crickettspirit
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May 29 @ 11:27PM
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That was definitely a COOL blog !!!!
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conny90045
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May 30 @ 12:19AM
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You seem like a real sweetheart The main thing is that "WE" think your cool 
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sweeetksses
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May 30 @ 12:31AM
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You look like a very 'cool' guy to me. Keep smiling . . . 
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misschoos
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Jun 3 @ 6:07PM
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jnwaco
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Jun 6 @ 5:51PM
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Get this straight right now - You can still be cool. You look like you ARE still cool. Going to batting cages is cool. Mick Jagger is still cool, and he's older than red pepper. Don't give up on cool. Hair, no hair, doesn't matter. That guy from The Shield. Balder than Mr. Clean, cool as hell. You can even make the spare tire cool, or you can still make it disappear. It's a non-issue when it comes to cool.
However, it is NEVER, I repeat NEVER okay to wear black socks, sandals, and shorts. NEVER!!!! Don't do this. For your sake. For us all.
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