Do you know an adult who is a big kid? We do…we’ve been friends with him for a long, long time. This person passed the age of 40 a few years ago…but missed the memo: “Dude…you have entered middle age.”
The best description of him would be during the annual Fourth of July parade on the Block…not the cell bloc at Sing Sing (I’m sure he was never incarcerated.) I’m talking Block Island. This was before the Block officials changed the parade route and put wild and crazy guys like him out of business. Guys like him were having a little too much fun.
You know the guy…the guy carrying a 100-ounce water tank capacity super-soaker… backup water pistols…and water balloons. Each year his super soaker got bigger and more high tech. He would take no prisoners. Just give him a reason…or no reason…and he would take you out. Those poor unassuming parade watchers would get an eyeful they were not expecting.
Every year the parade has a theme and everyone is welcomed to enter. He would always enter the parade under the guise of getting the kids involved. The themes over the years have been varied…a story book, a movie, a T.V show, or a president. It was interesting to see how he conveniently fit a water device into every theme. “What, I thought everybody knew George Washington carried a super-soaker and water balloons to ward off the British….I swear the 101 Dalmatians used super soakers to wash their spots off.”
And when it is his birthday…he is expecting the Big Kahuna treatment. You have to hand it to his wife…the pressure is on her each year to come up with the perfect celebration. (Girlfriend, you’ve got less than 2 months…tick, tock.) She has done an amazing job with his 30th and his 40th birthdays…each memorable parties …but his 50th will have to be the super duper of all events. (I just hope she has started planning…only 6 years left.) I’ve already thought of his gift for his 50th….(duh, get with the program already)…a super big, super-soaker.
The upside of having a super friend who is a super big kid is…he will keep the rest of his friends young…and Lord knows we could use that.
1 comment:
I can't believe no one has commented on your friend yet!
He sounds he should be the Grand Marshall of the LOOSER Parade. Doesn't he know someone could get hurt or blinded. I'm sure he waves his super falick soaker like he just won a free gift from the local Adult Book Store he hangs out at. You know its just a cover up for his short comings.
His poor wife maybe she'll catch a brake and he won't make to 50.
Oh one more thing, I'm sure his lips move when he reads.
Not too mention he "probably thinks this blog is about him"
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