According to five years of research by the people at Urban Cougar, cougars have some common characteristics that make them stand out. Those characteristics are:
- In control
- Independent
- Experienced
- Undeniably sexy
- Likes the attention
The cougs I know definitely seem to embody all of these characteristics. There does appear, however, to be an additional characteristic that Urban Cougar missed: trusting.
So, while we were independently tearing up the stage and dance floor, controlling the crowd with our incredible karaoke experience, soaking up the attention we were getting for our undeniable sexuality, and totally trusting the songs in the queue would be cougar related, we weren’t expecting the sobering news shared with us by KJ.
“Jazz Hands passed.” “He what?” I asked. “He passed. Died,”younger than us KJ replied. “How?” “Nobody really knows – there are a couple of rumors going around.” Sleepless and I were devastated. The night we met Jazz Hands he entered the bar, found the karaoke book, and immediately begin writing down requests. We quickly learned that Jazz Hands was unique because he was covered with tattoos, sweet, loved karaoke and his signature dance move was ‘jazz hands.’ If we were on stage it would not be uncommon for him to make eye contact with us and encourage the jazz hands move.
Shocked by Jazz Hands’ unexpected death, the next day I did a photo tribute to him on facebook. Several people replied, including GiddyUp, “I miss him….he is now a gold miner in Nevada.” Jazz Hands was in the mining trade, so I assumed that was her way of saying he was buried in a gold mine somewhere. You know what they say about assuming – neither does George W. Bush.
GiddyUp advised me the information KJ shared with me was, in fact, untrue. Our little mining, jazz handing, German friend is actually lebendig! I immediately shared this information with Sleepless, “So, guess what. Jazz Hands isn’t dead.” She responded the same way we did when we trustingly believed KJ’s statement that Jazz Hands was dead, “What?!?!”
L.I.P. Jazz Hands!
