I was never cool..I wasnt even a nerd at school..I was simply "there"...
One day, the school bully, quietly started giving me grief (as the do, so as not to attract the attention of the authorities) in the school cafateria...finding this, to be the final objectionable thing he had ever done...i beat him unconscious, with the steel lid, of those big trays that the cooks served gruel from...rather noisily, I might add....
From then on..was I cool? I was no longer "simply, there", but I was neither a Nerd, or, one of the so called Popular kids...but, I certainly was treated far more appreciably (weird, cos several of the guys there could have taken me at the time I rekon!)
Was I cool tho?
Did standing out from the norm, in an appealing way (as Balling gear, could possibly be described)...render me Cool?
A member, of another smaller group of people who dont fit into a Class...but are respected by those that do?
Am I thinking too much about this?