Call of the Cougar
Mood:  flirty
Now Playing: Gorillaz
I have come to a realization, well after my friends already have, that I definitely lean towards being a cougar.

What’s a cougar you ask? A cougar is a slang term for an older gal who enjoys younger men. Typically, they are over 40, so I guess that would make me a wanna be cougar-in-training.

I had no idea there was even an official term for this ‘predilection’ until I saw a special on this phenomena/lifestyle on Discovery Channel. Exactly--I thought the same thing.

Most of my life I have dated younger men. Whenever I break from that pattern, I tend to get into trouble and not the good kind. My last boyfriend was 9 years younger than me and that suited me just fine. I enjoyed lazing about on a Sunday morning playing Xbox for hours on end. A weekend could not have been better spent than between the Tony Hawk Boom-Boom Huck Jam and AMA Motocross drinking beer. The new one is 7 years younger than me and beyond yummy! What can I say? I like what I like…Grrrrrrrrrrr! When other gals are looking to pictures of Brad Pitt and the pages of Men's Health for inspiration whilst rubbing one out, I am perusing the pages of the Active and Swell catalogs...

The hilarious thing to my friends is that I actually mentor an 18-yr old boy. Seriously and for reals. And when I say mentor, I mean that in the most solemn sense of the term. My friends make snarky comments about “Meggie Kay Laterno”, but mentoring is a job I take very seriously and although I may make comments about younger guys, I do have a line etched permanently in the sand. Yes, I like younger men however there is a MAJOR difference between younger men and boys. I am not into boys. I am a cougar not a child molester. I have even said no to my friend’s 20 year old nephew who is beyond SWEET looking! It is not for just anyone that I am hankering to be Mrs. Robinson…the age gap can not be more than 10 years my junior. Beyond that, I consider it juvenile jail bait. Jail bait is not attractive to me…kind of like jail. I am just so not willing to be anybody’s bitch.

My ‘mentee’ invited me to come and see a play his high school was producing. I went with his mother and some of our other neighbors. I had no idea I had actually verbalized my thoughts until his mom looked over and said “WHAT?!” Apparently I had uttered aloud what I was thinking as I looked around “Guys were not this hot when I was in High School”. There I was surrounded by simmering, hot, hormonal jail bait. I finally knew what is what like to be a man watching a cheerleading squad…Dip me in honey and throw me to the Varsity football team.

Given my professional background, this week I am acting as one of the judges at a local prep school’s independent film festival. If you catch me outside huffing BMX bicycle seats or offering candy to the 18 yr olds, spray me down with the fire hose and turn me in…That was a JOKE people!!

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Updated: Friday, May 20, 2005 9:55 AM NZD