NOT SO COOL

In the ever restrained world in which I call my own, adventure and humility never seem to far away. I have lost lots of weight I am eating better and have found some much needed energy. So in these parameters I am feeling very good about myself. As a lot of you know I am a homebody who likes to stay home a lots and rarely enjoys venturing to far from my home.

Well since I was feeling so macho and had this feeling of being very cool within myself I said lets go the mall. I was like a teenager again and may of had a little jump in my walk I am not sure but it did feel like it.

Jo-Anne headed down to Zellers to pick up something so I decided to cruise the mall a bit and give them all a good look at such a cool guy. I am sure the mall must be starving for some coolness or at least I was sure of it.

I see the cd shop and my feet start to accelerate toward the entrance. Well since I am so hip I head straight for the new releases. Hey I knew my music in my day and I have not been hiding under a rock for the last few years. So picture this hip guy full of confidence as he stops by the new releases.

I start my scanning to see what new treasure I can come up with. As I kept looking looking looking I began to realize I did not know one artist or one cd in the five rows of these new cd's .
I kept looking and finally I found one I have heard of before. I could not tell you what song they sang or anything about them or even what style of music they played. Just over heard someone mention their name once. So I continue on with my search as I have three more rows to browse.

I come to last row and by now this very cool guy is feeling very much old at his lack of knowledge of the music business. Finally I find an artist I know very well Neil Young ah yes I am not so ignorant after all. I started to get my confidence back only to soon realize someone had put it in the wrong row as it was not a new release but belonged on the other side of the store.

Guess what this seemingly young cool guy did next, you got it I got the heck out of there as fast as I could, like a dog with his tail between his legs.

So here I am cruisin the mall trying to make sure nobody realizes that this old guy thought he was cool for a few minutes. Not just cool but young. Oh boy we came home ASAP.

The moral of this experience today never try or beleive you are something you are not. If your a geek be a geek if your are super cool be super cool you have the right, but be nice to us people who only dream he could be cool just one more time in his life.

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