How can you watch that and not smile? Too easy.
Make sure you’re the first person to do this. Others will try to dance with her afterwards, but they’re just biters.
And for God’s sake, get to her early in the evening. The last thing you want is to lose your opportunity because the reception has gone on past her bedtime. Unless her mom has allowed her to eat copious amounts of cake, she could very well fall asleep on you before the dancing starts.
Sweating Bullets (aka. Tropical Heat) was a sweet Canadian tv series from the early 90’s (very popular in Serbia, apparently). This dude, Nick Slaughter, always wore his shirts unbuttoned, open, flowin’ and free. The quintessential tropical cool.
It doesn’t matter what body type you have, nothing says “It’s my Saturday too” like giving your shirt the ole neck to navel highway.
George Brett, for those who don’t know, was one of the greatest baseball players of the 80’s.
[http://www.theunticket.com/george-brett-shits-himself-story/]
Why won’t this woman’s friends help her?
It’s like the beach. You get to spend hours in the sun drinking beer surrounded hundreds of people wearing next to nothing.
The team names in are hilarious: The Tri-City Dust Devils, The Toledo Mud Hens, The Albuquerque Isotopes, The Newburyport Clamdiggers, The Saginaw-Bay City Hyphens.
But here’s the best part. Heckling. You’re sitting so close that you know the players can hear you and half of them are still teenagers so you know that what you say affects them. You have the power to influence the outcome of the game!!
For around $10 a ticket, that’s great value for your buck.
You only need one.
No complicated props. At most a coin or a deck of cards. It’s especially cool if you can gracefully slide into it without anyone realizing what you’re about to do. You get the maximum “Wow” effect that way.
We all want to believe.
(Only if you’re good)
You’ve just got so much music inside you you have to share it with the world!!
We love spontaneous live music, it becomes the soundtrack to our day. We will stop and listen. Let us. Basque in our applause and admiration. Take the odd request.
Whatever you do, resist the temptation to put your instrument case down in front of you. The last thing we want is some busker suddenly guilting us out of $5. Not cool.
The only thing better then having a job and making money is not having a job and making money. The summer is easily the best time to do this.
We’ve all got that one friend who we can call up at noon on a tuesday to do something and know that they’ll be free. We love that friend. You can be that friend.
Spend July and August writing a novel, taking a cooking class or spray-painting train cars.
The point is, if your country provides some sort of unemployment insurance and you’re in a position to be able to take advantage of it, you owe it to yourself to do so. It’s only temporary and you’ll be the envy of your friends.
Don’t think of yourself as unemployed. Think of yourself as sunemployed.
“Why don’t you two go get a room? Nobody wants to see that!” Wrong. Actually, we kinda do.
In order to be involved in a public suck-face session you have to: a) Have someone who really digs you, b) Be super confident and c) not give a damn what anybody thinks.
These are all character traits that are universally regarded as COOL.
Plus, we can’t help looking. It’s like free public porn.
It’s time.
The point where trend becomes fad is the exact point where cool becomes mainstream. It’s the “%5 of the Population Ratio“. We are getting dangerously close to that threshold.
Sorry Hip-Hop stars. You’re victims of your own coolness.
(note: Keep one sticker-clad hat in your closet for that “old-school” look.)
If being ecologically friendly is cool (which it is), how can it be that being the opposite of ecologically friendly, like driving a massive car from the 70’s or 80’s is also cool? Ah, the mysteries of life.
Terrible on gas and impossible to parallel park. The iron beast with the exotic name: Impala, Cordoba, Grand Marquis. You can usually find one for pretty cheap in the Buy and Sell or from your grandpa.
Offer your friend a ride and watch the huge smile crease his face as you walk through the parking lot towards your Monte Carlo . Secretly we all want to feel like we’re in a 70’s cop show when we drive.
If you’re European, you know 6 languages so this doesn’t really impress you, but in North America we go nuts for crazy exotic things like “languages”. Anything that isn’t English is witchcraft as far as we can tell.
If you speak Italian, take some friends to an Italian restaurant and order for everybody. Coolest person at the table.
Easier still, if you’re walking down the street with a friend, pretend to get a phone call and then start blah blah yickity yacking for 30 seconds or so in that foreign tongue of yours. Your friend will be giddy from having no idea what’s going on, but they’ll be reminded of one thing: Que toi, t’es vraiment super cool!
