A Super Big Kid

This is a bring back blog. Five more years until the SUPER big kid hits the big one…….but who’s counting?? Happy Birthday Dug!

Do you know an adult who’s 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 4th of July parade on the Block…not the cell bloc at Sing Sing…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 unassuming parade watchers would get an eyeful they weren’t 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 to ward off the British. Didn’t they use super soakers to wash the spots of the 101 Dalmatians?”

And when it's his birthday…he's 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. 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’ve already thought of a gift for his 50th…a SUPER big, SUPER soaker for the SUPER big kid. (Shhh..that's a surprise.)

The upside of having a SUPER friend, who is a SUPER big kid?…he’ll keep the rest of his friends young…and Lord knows we could use that.


1 comment:
Anonymous said...

I can't believe no one has commented on your friend yet!

He sounds like 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 it to 50.

Oh one more thing, I'm sure his lips move when he reads.Not to mention he "probably thinks this blog is about him."