Have you ever sat and pondered the question: Am I a "tool/bro-bag/man-whore"?
We here at the bro-bag diagnostics department came together one night and discussed our experiences with tooligans to devise a foolproof method for determining whether or not a young man is a "tool". Curious about where you fall on the scale of what is acceptable to women? Take a few moments to ponder and reflect on your life as you go through this checklist of self discovery:
***All items in this checklist are based on actual experiences of the four members of The Bro-bag Diagnostics Team.***
The Tool Checklist
- Are you currently leading, or have you ever, led a girl on with no intention of getting serious or keeping her, therefore wasting her time and carelessly toying with her emotions?
- Have you ever led more than one girl on at a time because you “can’t make up your mind?” (Example: Make out with Susie on Monday and Tuesday, invite Jolene over on Wednesday, and then have a date with Gretchen on Friday while still carrying on a very flirtatious text conversation with Susie?)
- Have you ever told more than three girls in a semester that you love them?
- Have you ever played a girl and then tried to go for/date one or more of her roommates?
- Have you ever openly flirted with a girl or group of girls while your girlfriend was present?
- Do you Facebook chat your ex to tell her about the hot girl you met on the bus shortly after your break up?
- Have you ever gotten drunk and woken up in bed with someone you did not know, while in a committed relationship?
- If the above situation did occur, do you feel it isn’t your fault because you were drunk and don’t remember exactly what happened?
- Do you feel that cuddling/physical affection is emotionally meaningless?
- Have you ever been interested in a girl but rather than discuss your feelings, the relationship, or where things are going with her, gone to her roommates, neighbor, aunt, gardener and dermatologist to talk about it?
- Have you ever kissed a girl and immediately followed it with the statement, “I just want to be friends?”
- Have you ever introduced your new crush to your previous crush who was involved in the above mentioned incident THE FOLLOWING DAY?
- When you look in the mirror, do you see a God?
- Do you frequent the gym and talk about “getting swole"?
- Are there two or more pictures of you standing in front of a bathroom mirror holding your phone on your Facebook profile?
- Are you carrying on with a relationship you feel is restrictive because it means you can’t make out with other girls?
- Is your kissing toll above 15? Above 30? Above 63?
- Have you ever forced a girl into physical affection with you to fulfill your sick, twisted, animalistic desires?
- Have you ever texted a girl at 2:00 in the morning asking if she needs a ride because you noticed her bike tires were flat? (Have you ever slashed a girls bike tires in order to offer said ride?)
- Do you have a split personality or sudden lack of manners when you’re around your bros/homies/buds?
- Are you a bigot or homophobe? Both?
- Have you ever invited a girl to a party and then ushered her out the front door before it was over when she didn’t do anything to merit such treatment?
- Have you ever blatantly refused to come to a girl’s dance concert after two months of being in “like” and five personal invitations from her and her roommates to please come see her perform?
- Have you then, the following semester, brought a date to her dance concert?
- Have you ever told a girl you are interested in her while wiping off the slobber from your last make-out session with another?
- Have you ever asked a girl to sleep with you while in a committed relationship with another girl?
- Do you spend more time at the gym than with your girlfriend?
- Do you think that paying for a date/dinner guarantees you some action? (i.e. Do you consider dating a mild form of prostitution?)
- Have you ever made out with a girl without ever having taken her on a real date?
- Have you ever asked a girl to sleep with you in place of asking her out on a date?
- Have you ever described your “tool-y” friend without realizing you were actually describing yourself?
- Do you think it is entertaining and/or funny to smoke innocent pedestrians with your truck?
- Do you wear tool tanks?
- Have you ever purchased a double-deep V neck shirt?
- Do you take pride in your chest hair?
- Do you look for opportunities to casually flex your biceps?
- Do you think every girl is into you?
- Have you ever had difficulty comprehending someone’s disdain for you?
- Do you rotate/pass girls around with your homies/bros/brobags?
- Do you think being cultured and educated about the arts--even minimally--is sissy or gay?
- Do you rush girls into commitments or the road to marriage and then turn around and say, “I have to think about it?”
- Do you fake an accent to pick up chicks?
- Do you wear pooka shells on a regular basis?
- Have you ever taken a girl on a 13 hour first date to meet your parents?
- Have you ever neglected to do anything about the fact that your date has become seriously injured on your date? (i.e. concussion, sprained ankle, bleeding from the limbs, head, etc.)
- Have you ever complained to your date about spending money on her when you were the one who asked her out in the first place?
- Have you ever taken a date to a dance and within 5 minutes of arrival explained to her that you were going to take off to go "party boy on those girls over there"?
- After telling your girlfriend that you cheated on her, have you ever said, “Call me if you get bored?” as she tromped off your porch?
- Have you ever yelled at your date to “stand her ground” while she was being attacked by wildlife?
- Do you have a girl on the back burner?
- Is it your goal to kiss every girl in a certain organization/club/choir?
- Do you practice your smolder?
- Do you press on the gas of your extremely loud and obnoxious diesel truck while driving past someone’s house so they know you drove by?
- Do you exert more than five catcalls a day? A week? A month? A year? ... a lifetime?
- Is your truck lifted? (How lifted? Award yourself points accordingly.)
- Do you wear white stitched jeans?
- Is Tap Out your go to brand?
- Have you ever sent a girl you have yet to go on a first date with shirtless selfie snapchats asking her to come over for “nap time”?
- Do you think it is plausible to bench press 250 pounds but become completely incapable of physical exertion when someone needs help moving, cleaning, or transporting something? Explain.
- Have you ever pointed out a girl’s zit and/or told her she will never get married and/or asked her if she’s pregnant because you don’t understand what an empire waistline is?
- Have you ever been a landlord and said the above mentioned things to your tenants?
- Have you ever asked a girl you have yet to go on a first date with (or meet in person at all) to come give you a massage at two in the morning?
- Have you ever commented to a girl you are pursuing that Topanga Lawrence, (goddess of all 90’s sitcoms) was “a little thick for your taste”?
- Do you understand the term “rape kiss” and have you ever committed this completely unwarranted crime to a woman? More than once on a first date?
- Have you ever intentionally left your jacket in a girl’s vehicle as a foolproof way of securing a second date? (Spoiler Alert: It wasn't foolproof. Your jacket is still in the trunk of my car.)
- Have you ever declared that you are only interested in a woman with “at least” a PhD because you want to be with someone who can actually have an "intelligent conversation"? Have you made this comment while not possessing a PhD yourself?
- While engaged have you ever made promises, or even hints, to another girl regarding the future of your relationship?
- Are you experienced in the art of “booty calls”?
- Have you ever made out with a girl and then three minutes later told her you weren’t the least bit interested because she would restrict you from finding your eternal companion?
- And if so, were you already pursuing things with a second girl when that happened, thus lying to two innocent women at once?
- Do you go by multiple names so you can date multiple girls at the same time?
- Are you under the impression that you are God's gift to womankind?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, here are a few more to ask yourself:
- Do you care about other people’s feelings?
- What happened in your life to make you so cold, careless, and detached?
- How do you expect to ever have anything really special with someone when you throw everything away on a regular basis?
- Are you capable of loving another person more than yourself?
- Do you understand the term narcissism?
- Do you ever look at your life and look at your choices?
- What does the phrase “use and abuse” mean to you?
- Have you ever gone more than two weeks since beginning college without making out with someone?
- What about integrity?
- Do you realize there is more to a girl than her outward appearance?
- Do you want to end up with an idiot for the rest of your life/eternity?
- How important is interesting conversation to you, or do you like talking to a wall with a nice fake tan?
- Do you realize you may be contributing to a degrading, immoral society?
- Where do you want to be in 10 years and what are you doing about it now?
- Was your ex girlfriend too good for you? (Yes. Yes, she was.)
***This list was made during what experts now refer to as "The Great Feminine Rage-fest of 2013". Elevated estrogen levels were used in the making of this exam***