All this Grup crap going around

Everything in my life seems to happen in blocks... Everyone's talking about this "grups" thing. Meanwhile, a lot of my friends are having kids and getting married, and obviously, I'm not. However, I do sort of help raise the kids. I lived for two years with a friend of mine's family, and he has two small kids. Yesterday I was in their yard watching the four year old while the lawn was being mowed, etc. The four year old was being four years old, and he wanted to see bugs. Then he got bored of bugs, and I kept telling him to be patient. I found a small wood spider, and he jumped on it. I yelled at him for jumping on it, and then explained to him that he shouldn't kill things because once they're gone, they're gone. He told me that the spider was going to bite him, and I asked what made him think that. Having no answer, he told me the spider was a "bad guy" so I explained that there are no "bad guys" or "good guys," and that spiders do what spiders do, just like birds do what birds do, and people do what people do. Then we found an ant. He said the ant was cute. I was explaining to him that there were more bugs in his backyard than people who ever lived on the entire planet in all of history. At this point he got bored of bugs again and I was going to take him back around front.

That was the preamble. We were beside the fence, which is this sort of slatted picket thing, and I hadn't noticed, but my friend's neighbor's wife was sitting on the deck watching us. It was sort of like one of those things where you get walked in on doing something completely appropriate, but you get embarrased that people saw you doing it -- think taking a shit. So this lady, who is from Brazil or something, started telling me that I am very good with kids, and that I should have kids, and she told me that I am very patient, blah blah blah. I just kept giving monosyllabic grunt responses. It was sort of embarrassing to have someone catch me "parenting" without knowing they were there. I'm not generally considered the "parental" type.

See, in my head, I'm still 15 years old. That's why I avoid constant responsibility, drive too fast, wreck motorcycles, swear like a sailor, play fight with everyone. Getting caught not acting 15 years old is sort of embarrasing, because it feels disingenuous. That's why we're all grups. We all grew up in the late 80s and early 90s, which was such a screwed up time that everyone got damaged. So we all still see ourselves the way we were then. Which is why 20 somethings wear transformer t-shirts and jeans and don't shave. Or watch cartoons and read comic books. Or play games with tiny plastic people.

The crickets are back... Coooooool.