All the negatives are not cool!

I thought I would go off on two issues....both are negative. One was what happened in Kirkwood Missouri last night.....some idiot goes off and shoots up the city council killing 5-6 people. His mother and brother go on to say that he must have been upset. The second issue is about a young girl at a friends HS that takes a naked photo of herself and sends it to her boyfriend on her cell phone. Yeah you guessed it....every kid in this small town now has Suzie on their phone. I could go on and on about these two idiots.....but I figured you could get your dose of negativity in the newspaper.

I thought I would tell you a story that made me feel great!

A couple of years ago I was at a Cardinals game. I had scored some great seats down on the third base line so a foul ball could be in my future. In front of me was a Mom, Dad and their son. Along with the family was the son's buddy. I watched them throughout the game. The two boys were about 10. It must have been a birthday or some other big celebration because dad was making sure the boys had everything they needed. There was pretzels, hotdogs, cotton candy....cripes the guy must of dropped $100 on food alone. The whole time the boys were polite....but very excited. It also seemed that the buddy was the big baseball fan. It was late in the game when a foul ball came whizzing into our section. The buddy was like a flash. He dove into the seats fighting for that ball. The son was not as interested and just stayed seated.

The buddy won the battle and captured the ball. The next thing all happened in a split second. During the battle the buddy had his back to his friend the whole time. He then stood up ran the three seats back to his row and without hesitation, presented the ball to his friend. He said “this is for you”.

Still puts a smile on my face. The buddy's parents would have been proud. The son is lucky to have such a friend. That is COOL.

As this world keeps spinning out of moral control......look around there are plenty of buddy stories to keep you going.