We had a group of our friends over last night for labor day. Jesse remarked to Stephanie that when they started dating (almost two years ago by my remembering), these gatherings of MAHEC-related friends contained essentially no children. These parties typically run 20 people or so, so we’ll say that the adult to child ratio was something like 20 to 1. Last night there were, by my count, six kids for 16 adults and one bewildered dog.
Obviously, this is a serious problem, something like a 750% increase in the proportion of children over just two years. At his rate, by 2010, a gathering 20 adults will have to include accomodations for 421.8 children (one of them may be missing a foot or something, I guess that’s where the 0.8 comes in). I don’t know why either of the major political parties is making an issue out of this, it really represents an existential threat to our adult culture and way of life. Of course, we could always sell the kids on ebayby.com (damn domain squatters have already taken it) and make a boatload of money, so maybe this isn’t such a problem after all.
At any rate, the important thing here is that two of our friends brought kids that I haven’t seen in five months or so, which is a lot considering they’re something like seven or eight months old, and so they’re HUGE in comparison to my memory. At that makes me realize that Elliott will be there before we know it, and that kinda breaks my heart.
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