Moments of coolness.

I think most of us have experienced at least one moment in our lives when we did, or said, something really, undeniably cool. You know those moments; like when the action hero turns up at the last moment, quips a brilliant one liner and then blows away the enemy? That kind of thing (except without the murder).

I want to hear about your moment of coolness. Don't be shy, everybody deserves at least one moment to be cool! If you don't have one, tell me about something cool that you witnessed.

sorry, i had to do it.

hmm... the coolest thing that i can remember myself doing was not all that cool in retrospect, but the moment seemed pretty cool, especially in context to how i normally am. i was feeling particularly good this one night -- had just finished a sushi dinner for a friend's birthday with a bunch of strangers (to me at least), and we followed it up at some club afterward -- i was chatting up this girl and we were having a real fun conversation. when we got to the club, i went to the coatcheck, and for some reason i was just feeling pretty cool or something, because i just pointed to the coatcheck girl, pointed at my jacket, and said something to the effect of "that's an important jacket, perhaps the most important one you'll see all night, take care of it, hon', would ya?" she giggled, smiled, and seemed to swoon, and i just walked straight to the dancefloor and got my groove on before she could say another word.

it was a total Fonz moment. probably my only one ever.

the jacket was actually worth less than $50.

Ha ha ha! I love it.

I was 17 and working in a kitchen where there was this totally arrogant, cocky young chef (I had the major hots for him). Anyway, I was walking through the kitchen one day carrying a shitload of cutlery in one hand. This cocky chef yells from across the kitchen "Kim, think fast!" and throws a block of cheese towards me. I look up (and so does everybody else in the kitchen) and raise my free hand in the air. The cheese somehow lands smack in the palm of my hand. I shrug and keep walking. You should have seen the look on everyone's faces.

Oh yeah, it was awesome.

haha, brilliant! the image of that is so awesome, like something out of a film.

I don't know how cool this made me but it definitely made things a lot more interesting when I mentioned, at a movie party, that A.I. in The Matrix stood for Anal Insertion.

I spent a few years working a retail job. One afternoon I was behind the front counter when a shoplifter came running around the corner toward the door, all the while grappling with our Assistant Manager, who had tried to tackle him but was about 70-80 pounds outweighed.

I ran past the clerk who was on the main register and vaulted over the counter to try and help, but as I did the guy broke free of the AM's grasp and ran like hell out the door and out of the building. We elected not to chase him down the street.

I thought nothing more of it until later, when our security guy - who had just watched the whole thing on the CCTV recording - came up to me with an admiring look on his face and said, "Nice job getting over that counter, mingol." I took another look and realized that the counter was well above waist height, with a low-hanging light directly above it, almost completely covered with fragile objects (a guitar on a stand, stacks of merchandise, etc.), and partially obstructed on one side by the register and on the other by the clerk who was standing there in shock. And despite being six feet tall I'd sailed right over it without touching or disturbing anything, and landed perfectly on my feet on the other side. It was like I'd jumped through a porthole without touching the sides.

I have no idea how I did it, but it certainly made me look more graceful than nature intended.

Most of the ones I like are while I'm driving. Like braking to coast fifty feet to a dead stop less than three inches from a wall. I can do that one consistently.

Also, I used to do system admin. One time, a guy had a Mac that he'd done something evil to, and wanted it fixed. OK, I go look. I reboot it while rebuilding the desktop (sorry, old Mac techie jargon.) It sits there for about five times as long as it would normally; I turn to the user and say "Maybe it's really broken. Let me try this..." and do a both-hands-out, head-back magician-type gesture. And it goes "bing!" and lights up and goes into its boot sequence, exactly as I finish the gesture. The look on the guy's face was priceless.

Im 12 years old, Sixth grade, (when ALL the cool things happen of course), Im sittling in band class with my sax, and the tuba behind me asks for oil from the teacher. Teacher grabs a small bottle and lobs it towards the guy. I have no idea why BUT my hand SHOOTS upward and snatches the bottle from the air. After a second of realizing how cool that was I hand it back to the Tuba player.

Oh yes... in 6th grade, I was the shiz!

Riding a unicycle is seriously cool. I would love to be good at something cool; like playing snooker, being able to do tricks on a BMX or skateboarding.

Had the MAJOR HOTS for this guy the last two years in college. I'd totally walk out of my way on campus because I knew he would pass that direction. Two years, the guy never even so much as looked at me! I graduated, moved away, and over the year I guess I blossomed a little. The second night I was home I wen to a nightclub and beefcake was there. As soon as I walked in his head turned and all night long he kept trying hard to pick me up....When the moment I had been so long dreaming about came, I looked at him and knew I had grown past him. I just wasn't interested. I was nice about it, of course. Yeah, that was a pretty cool feeling.

I can't tell you. Other people say I'm cool, or an asshole so I'm lost.

Hell, I don't know. I let other people worry about that shit.

Only Cairo's has impressed me so far.

I'm the real Unibomber.

I punched a girl in the face once with my hand curled around a pepsi can. It was straight from the vending machine so I'm sure it was pretty cool.

I have never done anything remotely cool in my life.

True fact.

Once, in Jr. High music class, we were watching the movie "Amadeus." We were watching the brothel scene, and somebody asked "What's a brothel?"

I piped up from the back row "It's a whorehouse!"

That was the first time I ever made a teacher blush

Liar.

Probably the coolest thing I've done was at camp, 12 or 13... we were playing around on the basketball court, and a friend (with the help of a couselor) was hanging from the basket.

I shot a swish.

I was fucking lucky, too, because he was short and probably would have hurt his fingers and and busted his ass when he landed.

i can't think of any moments of coolness, cause i think my whole life is just made of them.

Well I'm going to sound like a terrible braggart, but this was pretty cool.. last week.

After drinking from 5 pm to approximately 1:45 am I walked into a bar where I was to meet up with a ladyfriend and another mutual female friend of ours.

When I walked into the bar the girls were making out, I began making out with both of them. During a pause I had an intense thirst for a beer - so with a girl in each arm I yell to the bartender ...

"Sabrina! Save me - I really need a beer."

She examines the scene and replies -

"You don't look like you need any saving... (beat)

but I can get you that beer."

Turning in notice at my cush corporate job to start my own gig.....felt good. That was 6 years ago.

You bomb universities?

Nope, Unitarians.